New installation by Ai Weiwei to be unveiled at Pavilion 13, Ukraine

30 June 2025

From 14 September – 30 November 2025, RIBBON International will present a major new installation by Ai Weiwei titled 'Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White'.

Staged inside the multidisciplinary cultural space of Pavilion 13, this new site-specific work marks Ai Weiwei's first commission in Ukraine and grows from his ongoing humanistic and pacifist interest in the experience of conflict — drawing on ideologically charged objects from the past to create art that resonates with the complexities of the present. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s 'Divina Proportione,' the work reflects on Enlightenment ideals of rationality — and how those frameworks are coopted in a world shaped by conflict and concealment.

The artist himself states: "That is the challenge, to build new works relating to what I feel, to me in the past and to the current situation. Art is more metaphysical. You cannot really give every description, but you can always suggest a gesture or attitude or some kind of symbolic meaning, more like a poetic gesture."

Commissioned by RIBBON International in cooperation with FORMA and Pavilion of Culture.

Image: Camouflage military uniforms printed with cat patterns, used to cover Divina Proportione, before being painted white. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio