Kyiv Colours

Kasper Bosmans – KYIV COLOURS is an exhibition centered on the artist's work 'Amber Room and Star Chamber (Kyiv Colours)', made in Kyiv in 2018. Curated by Jonas Schenk, it superimposes two historical costumes of authority – the Amber Room gifted by Frederick of Prussia to Peter the Great in 1717, and the Star Chamber, the secretive English court under a starred ceiling – into a single gleaming surface of wallpaper, amber, and plexiglass. The work treats sovereignty as a matter of ornament, staging a masquerade of legitimacy through material excess, set against a present that excels in blandness. Kindly supported by Gladstone Gallery, Sparkasse Köln/Bonn, and Stadt Köln.