The giant dragon skeleton
Together with Ihnat Solomko, I painted a giant dragon skeleton across a long factory building. The mural formed part of the art programme of the first Brave! Factory in 2017.
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Brave! Factory Festival
An industrial site transformed into a setting for electronic music, installations, murals and temporary meeting places. Warehouses, roofs and machinery became part of the artistic and spatial programme.
Curatorial collective: Maria Vtorushina, Andrii Siguntsov, Kateryna Ray and Daria Shevtsova.
Art at the factory
Clemens Behr: concrete and light
Concrete elements found at the factory and fluorescent lighting became a large installation, assembled with the help of the factory’s crane operators.
WE BAD: pink wrestlers
The duo reworked a Soviet sporting motif into a large mural of naked pink wrestlers. Its vivid colour deliberately contrasted with the industrial surroundings.
Zbiok: mural
The Polish artist created a monumental composition of smiling faces, bringing a different emotional register into the factory landscape.
Art beyond the gallery
The reinforcement workshop became a gallery, but artworks extended across the site. The programme included Kostiantyn Shakula’s ghost train made from reinforcing mesh and videos by Esteban Diácono.
About the project
Brave! Factory began with the idea of writing “Brave!” across one of the MetroBud factory’s long roofs. The industrial site then became a meeting place for electronic music, contemporary art and urban culture, with more than 50 musicians, DJs and artists from different countries taking part.
Warehouses and machine halls became dance floors and galleries; walls turned into large canvases; concrete platforms and overlooked green areas became stages. Existing machinery, pipes and working structures were incorporated into the festival’s spatial experience rather than treated simply as scenery.
The project explored what could happen when a functioning industrial environment opened itself to another rhythm of use. Art and music temporarily reorganised the site, allowing production spaces to become places of encounter, performance and collective movement.