Commemoration of the ‘Madonna of Kiev’ on display in Berlin
On February 25, 2022, the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hungarian journalist Andras Földes photographed a young mother breastfeeding her child in the Kiev metro. The city’s subway stations have become a haven for city dwellers. Földes posted the photo of the mother and son on Instagram and within hours it went viral.
The photo was used by artist Maryna Solomennykova, who lives in the southern city of Dnipro, to create her work, “Madonna of Kyiv”. Solomennykova said the woman with her child symbolized all Ukrainian mothers hiding in bunkers to save themselves from Russian attacks.
The “Kiev Madonna” received even more attention than the photograph that inspired it. A copy of the painting hangs in a church in Naples and the original can be seen in the exhibition “Timeless. Ukrainian Contemporary Art in Wartime” at the Bode Museum in Berlin.
The curator, Olesia Sobkovych, is also Ukrainian and chose the creation for the exhibition along with dozens of other contemporary Ukrainian works.
Source: DW
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