Anthology of Uncertainty is an independent curatorial programme exploring how instability – historical, political, personal – leaves its mark on people, communities, and cultural memory. It started in Paris in 2024, rooted in the Ukrainian experience of living through war and erasure, and has since grown into a series of encounters with wider questions: about uncertainty as a shared condition, about what we remember and why, about what remains when dominant narratives fall apart.

Each season works with a different theme, form, and group of collaborators: film screenings, workshops, performance conferences, public discussions. The common thread is a question the project keeps returning to: how do we make sense of what we are living through, when the ground keeps shifting?

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Uncertainty Zones 2026

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April 30th at 17:00, the National Museum Chornobyl

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CURATORIAL NOTE

In our fast-paced and fragmented world, many strive to articulate the essence of the present. But what unites these attempts? How do we name the era we live in?

Unstable. Fractured. Chaotic.

Linear narratives no longer hold: step A rarely leads to step B. We are flooded with shifting information. Values are disoriented. Control is fleeting.

Anthology of Uncertainty started in 2024 as a curatorial residency at La maison de l’ours Paris. Its initial focus lay in the re-emergence of decolonial conversations in Europe after February 24, 2022, and in how Ukraine’s cultural voice had long existed outside dominant narratives. The project recognised the full-scale invasion not as a sudden rupture, but as a continuation of historical pressure, disinformation, and erasure. Against this background, Anthology of Uncertainty began as a space to rethink how Ukrainians experience instability – politically, socially and personally – and how this condition shapes both artistic and everyday life.

Depending on the context and topic, different forms of expression call for different techniques. The project includes film screenings, artist talks, presentations, public discussions, a performance conference, workshops, and research formats, which serve as a sort of ‘umbrella’ for gathering experiences and materials. These formats allow working with personal stories, memories, and collective experiences so that people can talk about their own states of uncertainty and find common ground in their experiences. The project develops the final form together with the participants, spaces, and themes that arise in the process.

The 2025 season aimed to define the limits of uncertainty in a deeper time frame and more personally to representatives of various social groups that go beyond the Ukrainian question. In the following seasons, uncertainty will be looked at from different perspectives and in collaboration with actors from various cultural fields.

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