Curated with Vilja Gunzelmann and Viktoria Rochambeau.
Based on research conducted along the Kiel Canal, Oksana Yushko explores the entanglements of commodity flows, migration movements, and ecological systems. In the exhibition the artist adopts a non-human perspective, linking movements and infrastructures across species, spaces, and political orders. At the center of the exhibition, presented in the container space 40ft on the forecourt of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, lies an expansive video and sound installation: across five monitors, ships pass by; their repetitive gestures of movement form a visual choreography. This directs attention to a landscape that appears idyllic while simultaneously functioning as a key transport corridor for goods and military traffic in Northern Europe. »The humans call this global trade. I call it a very noisy way to move seeds and stories around the planet.« The exhibition is made possible by the Volontärspreis Y 2026 of the Young Friends Group of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States (Junger Freundeskreis der Kulturstiftung der Länder).
40ft, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
05.06.–19.07.2026
