Protest / Architecture. Barricades and Tents: The World and Ukraine

The National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, together with the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine and in partnership with the Museum of Kyiv History, presented the exhibition "Protest / Architecture. Barricades and Tents: The World and Ukraine." The event is dedicated to the anniversaries of Ukraine's Maidans: the 20th anniversary of the Orange Revolution and the 11th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity.

In this exhibition, the project authors explored and compared protest architecture across different eras and countries: from the barricades of the 1848 revolution in Western Europe to the protest spaces of Kyiv's Maidan in 2013–2014, the tent cities of the Arab Spring, light laser projections during Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, and more.

Small treehouses, large coverings, round huts, camping tents, wooden towers, blockades, and fortress-like barricades—all of these represent the varied forms and functions of protest architecture that emerged across different corners of the world.