Home Beyond the Dawn at Expo 2025

On August 5, at the Romania Pavilion of Expo 2025 in Osaka, representatives of the governments of Ukraine and Japan explored the immersive exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art titled Home Beyond the Dawn (Дім за зорею).

Tatiana Berezhna, Acting Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications and Ukraine’s General Commissioner at Expo 2025, addressed the participants and guests with a welcoming speech.

Home Beyond the Dawn, running until August 12, is a 30-minute video installation featuring works from 30 Ukrainian artists. The project was first presented in Mexico and now has the opportunity to introduce itself to an Asian audience at EXPO 2025 in Japan.

It was curated by Natalia Matsenko, Yuri Yefanov, and Clemens Poole, and featured adapted works by Kateryna Aliinyk, Yehor Antsyhin & Lucy Ivanova, Katya Buchatska, Bohdan Bunchak, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Timur Dzhafarov (John Object), Zhanna Kadyrova, Semen Khramtsov & Rina Khramtsova, Sytuatsiini klumby (Anna Nykytiuk, Dasha Chechushkova, Kseniia Shcherbakova), Anastasiia Leliuk, Yevhen Maloletka, Viacheslav Mashnytskyi, Sasha Maslov, Daniil Nemyrovskyi, Viacheslav Poliakov, Sofia Pomohaibo, Georgiy Potopalskyi (Ujif_notfound), Polina Raiko, En Rozen, Vasyl Sai, Pavlo Sirko, Elena Subach, Sergei Sviatchenko, Stanislav Turina, Yuri Yefanov, and Anna Zvyagintseva.

Yuri Yefanov provided the visual direction and composition. 3D modelling, digital artwork reproduction, and CGI support was done by Pavlo Sirko, and the sound design and score by Georgiy Potopalskyi. Mila Kostiana was in charge of the graphic design and used Ufficio Display for the typography. The Japanese font is Kozuka Gothic, see comments.