Fabian Knecht
Path of Most Resistance
MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow
Lipowa 4, 30-702 Krakow, Poland
Apr 24–Sep 7, 2025
Opening: April 24, 4–8pm
Curated by Dominika Mucha

On April 24, 2025, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków – will open the exhibition Path of Most Resistance by Fabian Knecht. The exhibition brings together works that express Knecht’s personal resistance to the Russian war against Ukraine (and against all of Europe).

The exhibition Path of Most Resistance presents works created between 2022 and 2025, with a focus on those that directly relate to the war in Ukraine. The centerpiece is Laughing Is Suspicious (Lachen Ist Verdächtig), a large-scale outdoor installation on the museum’s facade. Measuring 40 x 7 meters, the work is composed of hand-made Ukrainian camouflage fabrics that Knecht has arranged and sewn together. He collected these heavily used materials and exchanged approximately 500 m2 of them for 4,000 m2 of professional-grade camouflage fabric.

Other exhibited objects and installations are made from materials sourced directly from the war zone. Rubble from destroyed buildings, fabric soaked with ash from burned Russian tanks, and a bullet-riddled cooking pot serve as tangible evidence and testimony of the Ukrainian resistance.

In addition, the exhibition includes several recent works by Knecht that address political and societal conditions in Western Europe.
Text by Alona Karavai