The Stammering Circle conjoins concepts brought forth by Paul Celan and wrestles with ideas around truth, justice, and social responsibility as threads of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Consequently, we’re calling our umbrella public program the Chalk Circle. It will run in parallel with the exhibition to frame the thinking around projects by artists, cultural producers, thinkers, philosophers, architects, musicians, and composers who engaged with The Stammering Circle.
Chalk Circle programming will occur at various locations throughout Lviv, including Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Dim42 LPE “Lviv Radio”, Home of Sound “Dim Zvuku”, among others.
The program will take place primarily throughout the opening week of the exhibition from June 20–June 27, and in August 2025.
Please note: The program is subject to change; please consult faktura10.org and jamfactory.ua for the most current details.
The Chalk Circle: Public Programming Schedule
Friday, June 20
16:00 — Stammering Circle: Preamble
Speaker: Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10 and professor at Yale School of Art
Venue: Lviv Polytechnic National University, — Chemistry Building, Room 101, Building No. 9, 9 St. Yura Square, Lviv
17:00 — Frederick Kiesler: Magic Architecture
Speaker: Gerd Zillner, Director of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Venue: Lviv Polytechnic National University, Machine Hall, Building No. 10, 5 Ustyanovycha Street, Lviv
Saturday, June 21
12:00 — Opening of the exhibition The Stammering Circle.
Speeches by the curator of the exhibition Marta Kuzma, the founder of the art center Harald Binder, program and executive director Bozhena Pelenska, operational and executive director Tetiana Fedoruk, Faktura 10 international project director Léa Richard-Nagle
13:00 — Conversation with the Curator: open to public
Speakers: Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10 and professor at Yale School of Art; Pablo Lafuente, Artistic Director, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Bozhena Pelenska, Program and Executive Director, Jam Factory Art Center
15:00–16:00 — Walid Raad Artist talk + Q&A (Attention: no photos or videos are allowed at this event)
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
Sunday, June 22
12:00–13:00 — Dwellings for Spirits, installation walkthrough with the artists Janina Pedan, Anna-Mariіa Kucherenko, Kateryna Kopeikina
Venue: Dim42 LPE “Lviv Radio, 42 Rynok Square, Lviv
15:00–17:00 — Screening of Les Goddesses by Moyra Davey
Speakers: introduction and conversation between Moyra Davey and Marta Kuzma
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
18:00 – 19:00 — Oleksiy Radynski and Lyuba Knorozok in conversation: Where Russia Ends
Speakers: Oleksiy Radynski and Lyuba Knorozok
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
Monday, June 23
14:30 — Artist Julie Poly in conversation with Antonio Cataldo, Dean of the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
16:30 — Lecture: “Straight Lines and Infrastructural Sensibilities”
Speaker: Ina Blom, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Venue: Home of Sound (Dim Zvuku), 6 Knyazya Romana Street, Lviv
19:00 —A discussion with Philippe Sands, KC, Professor of Law at University College London and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard and Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst, Clinical consultant at Primo Levi Center in Paris.
Registration here
Venue: Lviv Town Hall, 1 Rynok Square, Lviv.
This event is in partnership with the Center for Urban History.
Tuesday–Friday, June 24–27
The Philosophical Afterlives of War. Developed and led by Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy and founding Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London.
Venue: Lviv Polytechnic National University, Assembly Hall and Old Library Reading Room, Main Building, 12 Stepan Bandera Street, Lviv
11:00 – 13:00 — Public lectures (daily) (NB: Wednesday, June 25th, the lecture starts at 12 pm)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Osborne
15:00 –17:00 — Reading group (daily)
Engagement with reading texts is essential. Please RSVP at faktura10.org and here.
Thursday, June 26
18:30 — Panel: “How War reshapes mental health and art therapy practices with traumatized civilians and soldiers: Unbroken clinicians from First Lviv Territorial Medical Union testify”
Participants:
Oleh Berezyuk, M.D. Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Assistant Professor Dept of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Head of Mental Health Service at First Lviv Territorial Medical Union.
Ulyana Krynytska-Berezyuk, M.D., Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, Co-Director of Mental Health Service at First Lviv Territorial Medical Union.
Orest Vasylyk, art therapist, psychologist, psychotherapist, Mental Health Center St Panteleimon Hospital, First Lviv Territorial Medical Union.
Roksolana Yurchyshyn, M.D. Child and adolescent psychiatrist, child psychotherapist, neurologist, Mental Health Center St Panteleimon Hospital First Lviv Medical Union, Lviv.
Oleksander Filts, M.D., psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Professor, Head of Dept of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. Consulting psychiatrist at Mental Health Center First Lviv Territorial Medical Union.
Moderator: Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Clinical consultant at Primo Levi Center in Paris.
Venue: Center for Urban History, Conference Hall, 6 Bohomoltsia Street, Lviv. This event is in partnership with the Center for Urban History.