barbara kruger installation wraps passenger train crossing ukraine

Ukrainian Railways hosts moving message across Ukraine

The railways of Ukraine become the site for a major new installation by artist Barbara Kruger titled, ‘Untitled (Another Again).’ Set against this landscape of persistence and uncertainty, the traveling artwork has launched on May 1st, 2025. Rather than a museum or gallery, the moving skin of an Intercity train hosts the work, which marks a solemn moment for public art, one that travels alongside the people it hopes to honor. Barbara Kruger uses the moving canvas of a Ukrainian Railways Intercity train to create a site of visual and emotional resonance. Covering the train’s exterior with bold typography, Kruger’s work will echo through Ukraine’s wartime landscape.

‘Untitled (Another Again)’ is developed in collaboration with RIBBON International and Ukrainian Railways, two organizations committed to cultural preservation and public engagement. Curated by Masha Isserlis, the installation runs from May 1st — July 14th, 2025, acting as an expression of solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Another Again) 2025, Ukrainian Railways Intercity Train, Ukraine. courtesy of the artist, RIBBON International, Ukrainian Railways, and Sprüth Magers. photo: Vitalii Halanzha

Barbara Kruger’s text voices cycles of endurance and hope

Artist Barbara Kruger, together with nonprofit RIBBON International, emphasizes local voice by presenting her typographic text primarily in Ukrainian, with an English translation accompanying it. This choice highlights the importance of cultural self-definition at a time when Ukraine’s sovereignty, heritage, and language face ongoing threats from outside forces. In Ukrainian and English, respectively, the text of Kruger’s upcoming work reads:

‘ЩЕ ОДИН ДЕНЬ ЩЕ ОДНА НІЧ ЩЕ ОДНА ТЕМІНЬ ЩЕ ОДНЕ ЗАРЕВО ЩЕ ОДИН ЦІЛУНОК ЩЕ ОДИН БІЙ ЩЕ ОДНА ВТРАТА ЩЕ ОДИН ЗДОБУТОК ЩЕ ОДНЕ БАЖАННЯ ЩЕ ОДИН ГРІХ ЩЕ ОДНА ПОСМІШКА ЩЕ ОДНА СЛЬОЗА ЩЕ ОДНА НАДІЯ ЩЕ ОДИН СТРАХ ЩЕ ОДНА ЛЮБОВ ЩЕ ОДИН РІК ЩЕ ОДНА СУПЕРЕЧКА ЩЕ ОДНЕ ЖИТТЯ.’

‘Another day another night another darkness another light another kiss another fight another loss another win another wish another sin another smile another tear another hope another fear another love another year another strife another life.’

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Another Again) 2025, Ukrainian Railways Intercity Train, Ukraine. courtesy of the artist, RIBBON International, Ukrainian Railways, and Sprüth Magers. photo: Vitalii Halanzha

drawing from historic agit-trains of Ukraine

Barbara Kruger finds precedent in the ‘agit-trains’ of Vasyl Yermylov’s 1920s Ukraine, whose mobile art campaigns delivered revolutionary messages by rail. Kruger’s intervention similarly travels through sites of survival and struggle, acknowledging the train’s double role as both a physical vehicle and a symbolic one — carrying civilians, aid, memory, and hope through a fractured terrain.

‘Untitled (Another Again)’ launches against the backdrop of Ukraine’s closed airspace and battered infrastructure, where rail lines remain critical arteries of movement. Beginning at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi Railway Station and traveling to Darnytsia Station, the work will continue along routes to Lviv, Kharkiv, and Kramatorsk — stations tied to the ongoing realities of war.