Join us for an evening shaped by memory, migration, and the geographies we carry. The night opens with Open to Winds, a performance by Katherina Gorodynska that moves through voice, breath, and the body to show how memory drifts, fragments, and resurfaces. It is followed by an artist talk led by curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki with Gorodynska and Nikolay Karabinovych, whose sound walk As I'm going to bed, I think of Kinkerstraat traces ghost geographies between Amsterdam and Odessa.

In Open to Winds, wind becomes a metaphor for remembering. The thirty-minute performance begins inside the exhibition and continues toward the canal, extending the work into the city. Gorodynska turns to collective memory as something unstable and polyphonic – carried through speech, silence, accent, and gesture. Rooted in her experience of losing a mother tongue, the piece uses multilinguality to show how identities overlap within one body.

Karabinovych introduces his sound walk As I'm going to bed, I think of Kinkerstraat, presented in the Rozenstraat exhibition and experienced through visitors’ own headphones and smartphones. Mapping an audio collage across Amsterdam, the work turns each point on the route into a portal to an Odessa double, revealing a ghost geography beneath the city. Drawing from the lineage of Odessa conceptualism – particularly the performative strategies of Rodnya (1983), developed under Soviet-era restrictions – Karabinovych uses a map that refuses to mirror the real city and a voice steeped in remembrance to craft a walk shaped by generational movement and longing. The project’s title, taken from Willem de Kooning’s letter to his father, echoes this affective terrain: a return not to the street itself, but to its afterlife in language – a childhood place that can only be evoked as linguistic residue.

This programme is part of the Biennial exhibition taking place at Rozenstraat.