Fellow 2024

INDEX-IWM - Autumn 2024 4 September – 4 December 2024

Project: Who Will Go for Us

During his Fellowship at INDEX, Bunchak will explore through his artistic practice the meanings of ‘civilian life’ for the growing numbers of Ukrainians with battleground experience. In addition to his art practice which involves word, image, and sound, Bunchak will help INDEX build a partnership with the ‘Vilno’ programme.

“Who Will Go for Us” is a 10-minute video work consisting of six “fragments” of visual and/or auditory density, showing the “civilian day-to-day” of the artist, a former soldier, and commander of an assault group who was severely wounded during one of many assaults in the Serebryansky forest.

Bohdan Bunchak

Bohdan Bunchak is a Ukrainian artist and veteran of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Bohdan studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University and the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. He fought in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and was dismissed from service after being wounded.

Currently, Bohdan is a curator of the “Vilno” programme of adaptation and reintegration for veterans and also a student at the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy.