Bögdana Kosmina: Emergency Suitcase

Opening: May 22, 7 pm with a Super Special Opening Performance “Bits of You” by Sasha Malyuk & Boji Ro at 7:30 pm

with Alina Kleytman, Anatoly Belov, Boji, Bogdana and Tamara Kosmina, Davyd Chychkan, Fito, Fedir and Bohdan Tetyanych, Love Curly, Lucien Gurbert, Nikita Kadan, Nikolay Karabinovych, Plisetskiy, Yevgenia Belorusets

In February 2022, Bögdana Kosmina evacuated Kyiv with a single suitcase—a living archive accumulated since the 2000s, not a collection but a visual commons of her community’s power. For five years, it traveled from Kyiv to Berlin, Mexico City, Paris, Prague, and Vienna.

Kosmina valise embodies abundance—a refusal to abandon what sustains. It functions as a counter-archive: where institutions demand permanence, the suitcase embraces precarity and lived experience’s sensual disorder. Where archives insist on distance, it demands intimacy.

The exhibition is part of the Independent Space Index 2026, which takes place from Friday to Sunday, May 29–31.
Opening hours during the festival: 2–6 pm

Performance: Saturday, 30.5, 6–8 pm

During the festival, Bögdana Kosmina and Herbert Justnik, curator of the Volkskundemuseum Wien, will engage in a performative discussion.