Expanded Memorial for Alexey Navalny – Artwork Activation with Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Saturday, May 24 | 4 – 6pm
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin
Fernando Sánchez Castillo is a Spanish artist whose work explores themes of history, memory, and resistance. His project Expanded Memorial — a series of interactive installations where visitors can take home small plastic figurines of well-known freedom fighters in exchange for leaving notes. Sánchez Castillo’s statue of August Landmesser, a German worker made famous by a historic photographer in which he alone refuses to give the Nazi salute in a crowd, was shown in Russia in 2021, just a few months before Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For the “No” exhibition, Sánchez Castillo has created a monument of the most prominent Russian opposition leader of our time, Alexey Navalny, who was killed in prison in early 2024. As part of his long-term project Expanded Memorial, which honors political resistance and freedom fighters around the world, Sánchez Castillo has transformed the iconic image of Navalny making a heart shape with his hands into a series of pocket-sized figurines.
Special Guest: Ilya Yashin
If you’re unable to attend the activation, you can still pick up a Navalny figurine any day after June 24 (until July 6, when the exhibition closes). But don’t wait too long — there’s a limited number available.
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MORE UPCOMING EVENTS:
→ Wednesday, May 28
Curatorial Tour of the Exhibition „No”
→ Wednesday, June 11
Public talk with Galina Timchenko and Polina Aronson
→ Wednesday, June 18
Curatorial Tour of the Exhibition „No”
→ Sunday, June 22
Book Day: Meet the Authors of the Books Published by Meduza
→ Wednesday, June 25
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