Security Guarantees – Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale 2026
Security Guarantees is the title of the Pavilion of Ukraine at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The Ukrainian Pavilion addresses the unfulfilled security assurances provided to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum (1994) in exchange for relinquishing its nuclear arsenal. The project reflects on the fragility of peace and the resilience of the Ukrainian people.
At its centre is Zhanna Kadyrova’s The Origami Deer. Installed in 2019 in Yuvileynyi Park, Pokrovsk, on the site of a dismantled Soviet Su-7 aircraft, the sculpture was realized with executive and technical support from Denys Ruban. Rooted in the tradition of park sculpture, it reinterprets this legacy through a contemporary form.
This exhibition was curated by Ksenia Malykh and Leonid Marushchak, with architecture by Oleksandr Burlaka, and technical direction by Denys Ruban.
The visual identity was designed by Ostap Yashchuk with the typefaces KTF Roman (Kyiv Type Foundry) and Periodica (Mint Type). The website was designed and developed by Dmytro Prutkin and Oleksii Nasirov using Times New Roman.
