--- title: "MOTHERLAND" date: 2023-04-14 last_modified: 2023-09-05T10:30:44+02:00 generated_at: 2026-05-30T10:05:37Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/motherland" description: "Ukrainian artists reflect on the notion of ‘homeland’" image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Khomenko_moment-of-silence-Anschnitt_1080x1920px.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # MOTHERLAND ### Ukrainian artists reflect on the notion of ‘homeland’ ![]() ![Blick in den Raum, auf der rechten Seite neben der Tür hängt ein Banner mit dem Ausstellungstitel "Motherland" und der Auflistung der betieligten Künstler:innen, links ein Durchgang, in der Ecke ist eine Skulptur auf einem Sockel zu sehen](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MOTHERLAND-c-Stadtmuseum-Berlin_OliverZiebe7745.jpg) ![Gemälde auf dem Soldaten in verschwommener Weise zu sehen sind](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Khomenko_moment-of-silence-Anschnitt_1080x1920px.jpg) ![Zwei Vitrinen rechts und links, in denen Uniformen präsentiert werden. In der Mitte zwischen zwei abgedunkelten Fenstern ist ein Bildschirm angebracht, auf dem drei Personen in Uniformen zu sehen sind](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MOTHERLAND-c-Stadtmuseum-Berlin_OliverZiebe7823.jpg) ![Links ist ein großes Gemälde an der Wand hängend zu sehen, darauf stilisierte Welpen zu sehen, die menschliche Figuren in den Armen halten](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MOTHERLAND-c-Stadtmuseum-Berlin_OliverZiebe7781.jpg) - They used to live in Ukraine. Now, uprooted from their homes, many find their lives in a state of flux, working here and living there. In an exhibition by Stadtmuseum Berlin created in collaboration with Ukrainian curator Valeria Schiller, ten Ukrainian artists respond to the question: “What does home mean?” **Location** Museum Ephraim-Palais Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin **Opening Hours** Tue – Sun | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Mon closed **Entry** 7 euros / reduced price 4 euros **Combi-Ticket** 10 Euro / 6 Euro (reduced) Valid for two consecutive days for the Museum Ephraim-Palais and the Museum Nikolaikirche. Tickets will also be valid for the special exhibition "[Berliner Contrasts (2004-2015) - Photographs by Frank Silberbach and Nikolas von Safft](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/berlin-contrasts-2004-2015)" at Museum Ephraim-Palais. The exhibition “Motherland” can be seen on the first floor of Museum Ephraim-Palais. The paintings, photographs and videos on exhibit were created in late 2022 against a backdrop of war and flight. ![Zeitungsschnipsel und Auszüge an der Wand](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MOTHERLAND-c-Stadtmuseum-Berlin_OliverZiebe7888-300x200.jpg) They focus on the concept of ‘home’ from two different angles: as experienced reality, feelings of duty, and associations with a country on the one hand, and as subconscious wishes, fears, and longings on the other. By assembling expressions of these complicated and multifaceted relationships to ‘home’ and to ‘homeland’, the exhibition places this subjective lived experience within a global context. ##### Information The special exhibition can be viewed in English, Ukrainian and German. For the entire duration of the special exhibition and at all locations of the Stadtmuseum Berlin, admission is free for everyone carrying Ukrainian passport, a visa for the Ukraine or the valid student identification for a Ukranian university and a visa for residence in Germany – this also applies to everyone carrying an electrical residency permit (eAT). ##### Participating artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Julia Beliaeva, Yuriy Biley, Nikolay Karabinovych, Lesia Khomenko, Kateryna Lysovenko, Krystyna Melnyk, Alina Sokolova, Zhenia Stepanenko, Anna Zvyagintseva ## Programme ## Media partner [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/signal-2022-11-22-13-52-23-642-2-300x300.png)](https://vitsche.org/en/) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CMYK_UI-logo-horizontal-white-background_німецькою-1-1-300x134.png)](https://ui.org.ua/en/) ## Info & Service ##### Opening Hours Tue – Sun | 10 am – 6 pm (also on public holidays) Mon closed **Differing opening hours:** Wed | 20.05. | 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Staff meeting) Mon | 25.05. | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Whit Monday) Sun | 21.06. | 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Museum Festival / Fête de la Musique) Sat | 29.08. | 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. (Long Night of Museums) Thu | 24.12. | Closed (Christmas Eve) Fri & Sat | 25. + 26.12. | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (First & Second Christmas Day) Thu | 31.12. | Closed (New Year’s Eve) Fri | 01.01. 2027 | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (New Year’s Day) The [visitor rules](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/besuchsordnung-stadtmuseum-berln.pdf) of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply. ##### Directions Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin [ Google Maps](https://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Ephraim-Palais%2C%20Poststra%C3%9Fe%2C%20Berlin&aq=0&oq=Ephraim&sll=52.520399%2C13.774109&sspn=0.482148%2C1.065674&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&hq=Ephraim-Palais%2C&hnear=Poststra%C3%9Fe%2C%2010178%20Berlin&ll=52.515855%2C13.408406&spn=0.008031%2C0.018797&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A&cid=18287331903694586850) [ Bus & Train](https://www.bvg.de/en/connections/connection-search) ##### Contact Infoline +49 30 24 002-162 Mo – Fri | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. [Write E-Mail](mailto:info@stadtmuseum.de) ##### Accessibility The Ephraim-Palais is accessible without steps. All exhibition areas are accessible via an elevator. There are barrier-free toilets in the building. ![Helle Schrift ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/guru_top_tipp.svg) ## Tickets ##### Admission **Combi-Ticket** 15 euros Valid for our three museums in the Nikolaiviertel (Museum Nikolaikirche, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Museum Knoblauchhaus) on two consecutive days (please note opening hours) **Single Ticket** 7 euros Day ticket for the Museum Ephraim-Palais **Free admission With proof of reduction** for children and adolescents under 18 years of age, students, trainees, FSJ/FÖJ/BFD volunteers, Berlin Ticket S holders, severely disabled persons (at least 50% GdB) and their Personal Assistant, refugees (with a valid work or residence permit/eAT and a Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of transfer payments (Bürgergeld, ALG I), holders of the Berlin-Brandenburg Ehrenamtskarte, holders of the Super-Ferienpass / Berliner Familienpass, ICOM members, members of Deutscher Museumsbund, Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Stadtmuseums Berlin e. V. (except for the Museumsdorf Düppel), Förderverein Museumsdorf Düppel e. V., and Förderkreis Museum Knoblauchhaus e. V., media representatives with a valid press card. [ Ticketshop ](https://tickets.stadtmuseum.de/#/tickets/time?museum_id=2&group=day) ### Ласкаво просимо! Всі, хто має український паспорт, візу для України або дійсне студентське посвідчення українського університету та візу на проживання в Німеччині, можуть безкоштовно відвідувати всі наші локації; це також стосується всіх, хто має дозвіл на проживання в електронному вигляді (eAT). Ми з нетерпінням чекаємо на Вас!