Netting | Victoria Bavykina, Kateryna Botanova, Oleksandr Burlaka

The catalogue of the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale of Art provides a detailed overview of the Net Making project, including its concept, individual works, and comments from artists, curators, and invited researchers.

The name “Net Making” refers to the process of weaving camouflage nets, a vital practice during wartime that protected people and equipment from enemy attacks. Having emerged as a forced necessity, this collaborative process has acquired the meaning of therapy, social unity, a symbol of self-organization and interaction, contributing to the emancipation of its participants.

The project raises the theme of otherness through personal experiences of war, emigration, and integration into society.

The catalogue contains photographs of the exhibition and visual materials that not only document the final appearance of "Net Making" at the Arsenale in Venice, but also reflect the process of the exhibition's formation and the four individual projects that shape it.

International distributors of the catalog are Idea Books and Antenne Books.