KURENIVKA Apply · 2027
Blue Bull three-quarter front on the open playa: red face, nose ring, black horns, blue fur, speaker deck, storm clouds

Art car · 2025–2027

Blue Bull

Maria Prymachenko’s best-known beast, psychedelic blue, like a fur coat in the desert. Kurenivka’s two-storey art car, with a stage on its back.

A painting that drives

After 2024 several people came to Yaro and said: we love what you do, we want to back the next one. That was enough to try a long-held dream, an art car. It would be hard and expensive, so it had to be a shared cause. A small circle of founders came together to make it real.

It would be a figure by Maria Prymachenko. Mitya Zinoviev, whose team had welded the Hedgehog Temple’s frame, doubted the rights could be secured. Yaro wrote to the Prymachenko foundation, and they said yes, becoming partners in the project.

Out of a handful of figures one was obvious: the Blue Bull, her best-known beast. Prymachenko painted her bull in a crown in 1947, just after the Second World War; as another war shook Ukraine, it became a picture of what resilience looks like. Artist Rostyslav Dudchenko, who had built art for every Kurenivka decompression, brought it to life, and Mitya’s team built it.

Blue Bull from the side on the playa under storm clouds

2025

The first ride

The first time Blue Bull rolled across the playa, everyone turned around, filmed it and shouted. People were in total awe. That year the Bull carried a stage, and performances by Benny Benassi, Ira8Kays, Alina Pash and Geizweirdo.

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Blue Bull parked on the playa at golden hour with a Ukrainian flag

2026

The cozy year

A smaller camp built around the Bull. It opened the week with a collab with Nova Camp and drove to a wedding hosted by the camp. On Burn Night steaks were grilled on the Bull while the Man burned.

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Blue Bull lit red and blue in the middle of a night party on the playa

2027

The last ride

In Kurenivka’s tenth and final year, the Bull rides on the playa one last time.

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In their words

Voices

“Our main goal is to tell the world loudly about Ukrainian artists. Everyone has to see that Ukraine lives, and will go on living.”

Mitya Zinoviev Head of Wonder Workshop, which built Blue Bull NV, 2025 · translated from Ukrainian

“For me, playing on the Blue Bull at Burning Man is an incredible chance to present our culture on the biggest scale, from the authentic to arthouse.”

Oleg Skrypka Vopli Vidopliassova, before the 2025 burn; rain closed the gates before the band could reach the Bull Ukrainska Pravda. Life, 2025 · translated from Ukrainian

“It was not just a vehicle with sound. It was a mobile platform for culture.”

Yaroslav Korets On Blue Bull, introducing the 2026 camp Kurenivka 2026: Axis of Us (video)

Instagram

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Rides, builds and nights on the playa, straight from the Blue Bull.

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The rain night · 2025

One night a party on the Bull was washed out by rain. The camp walked back through the puddles, and on the way Yaro ran into Benny Benassi: let’s play in the lounge. He played the whole night while it poured.

Film

Photographs

Blue Bull complete in camp in daylight: blue fur body, horns, red-and-white tail eye, speaker deckThe Bull being assembled in camp: red face and horns over a truck cabNight build: the red face lit by work lights, crew on a ladder inside the mouthTwo campers in blue fur stoles under the Bull’s huge red faceEight people on the top deck under the tail arch at sunsetLaughing campmates crowded together on the deck at sunsetSide view on the open playa, tail arch and sound systemA camper in an embroidered coat beside a horn at night, the city lights belowArms raised on the deck, red fur ball overheadThe 2026 build crew at sunset in front of blue-fur Bull partsTwo campers sitting on fur-covered Bull parts at sunsetMerman in the foreground, Blue Bull parked in the distance

Credits

After the work of
Maria Prymachenko. Rights for the original “Blue Bull” provided by the Maria Prymachenko Family Foundation and LAW NET
Idea and lead
Yaro Korets. Managed and crowdfunded by Ukrainian Burners Inc.
Concept art
Rostyslav Dudchenko, St.Mary & Co art studio
3D design
D. Tkachuk
Produced in Kyiv
Wonders Workshop, the team of Mitya Zinoviev
Sound system
Mess Sound, designed and built in Odesa by Denys Shadurko
On the playa
Kurenivka camp

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