BUNT/БУНТ

Group Exhibition with Zina Isupova & Dima Mykytenko
Jun 13 – Jul 24, 2025
Serpen Gallery, Berlin

Photos: Jan Krause

BUNT/БУНТ (press text)

“Color is life; a world without color appears dead,” wrote Johannes Itten. But color is more than a surface property. It is a gesture, a state, an energy present in every creative act.

The exhibition Bunt was born out of a desire to reflect on creativity as a way of being. It is inspired by Rick Rubin’s book The Creative Act: A Way of Being, where art is not a result or technique, but a form of openness — to process, to silence, to the unseen. The artist is not a performer, but a conduit — present in the moment, receptive to feeling.

The title Bunt is rich in meaning. In German, it means “colorful,” while in Ukrainian, it echoes the word “bunt” — rebellion, resistance, unrest. This play between languages creates a tension that runs through the exhibition. Color here is not just an aesthetic feature, but an act of defiance, a way of saying “I exist,” even when words fall silent. It can be a child’s game or a political gesture — in every case, color becomes a means of asserting presence.
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This exhibition is a meeting of three artistic practices: Dima Mykytenko, Zina Isupova, and the Berlin-based collective 44 Flavours. Despite their different forms and approaches, all work with color as essence. In their works, color becomes space, tension, moment. It is not decoration but protagonist — a subtle threshold between inner and outer.

As curator, my aim was to create a space where these voices resonate equally — like improvisation, dialogue, presence. Just like in music or contemplation, meaning does not arise from form, but from feeling.

Bunt is not about “colorful” in the literal sense. It is about multiplicity — in emotions, in states, in ways of being. It is about art that doesn’t impose, but resonates.

You are invited into this experience — open, undefined, alive.

Oleksii Zolotar, curator of the exhibition

ARTWORKS

Sunny Side Up / Im Osten geht die Sonne auf, 2023
Acrylic, charcoal and oil on canvas
160 x 140 cm

Mietminderung, 2023
Acrylic, charcoal and oil on canvas
140 x 140 cm

St. Tugen 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Vorhang Frei 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Connected / String Dance 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Hit the Road, 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

verwurzelt & verankert 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Bunga Low Show 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Fieldrecording 2023
Glaze/engobe mix and oxides on ceramics, framed
22 x 28 cm

Amboss Lilie 2025
Colored pencil on paper, framed
29,7 x 21 cm

Birdwatch 2025
Colored pencil on paper, framed
29,7 x 21 cm

Parasol 2025
Colored pencil on paper, framed
29,7 x 21 cm

Serife 01 2023
Glaze mix & oxides on ceramics
32 x 35 x 11 cm

Serife 02 2023
Glaze mix & porcelain on ceramics
33,5 x 24 x 7 cm

Serife 03 2023
Glaze mix & porcelain on ceramics
38,5 x 36 x 11 cm

Amboss 2022
Acrylic on papier-mâché
51 x 33 x 11 cm

Lee vor Luv 2023
Acrylic, charcoal and oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm