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Chapter 10 · 9 years · Axis of Us

2026

Axis of Us

After the most epic year, the cozy one. A smaller camp built around the Bull: light, warm and close.

2026 in 3 moments

Highlights

The year at a glance. Tap a moment to read its part of the story.

01

Fewer people, more done

A smaller crew and a cosier camp.

02

The Bull returns

Blue Bull back on the playa for a second year.

03

Collab with Nova Camp

On the first day, Blue Bull and Nova Camp threw a party together on the playa.

60

people in a support camp built around the Bull

2nd

year on the playa for Blue Bull

Lighter

Fewer people, more done

2026 was simpler and lighter: much less infrastructure, a much easier build, a smaller and friendlier crew. A few generous supporters made the format possible. With fewer people, Kurenivka did more, and without anyone breaking along the way.

By design it was a support camp for the Bull: sixty people, twenty RVs and ten ShiftPods at 9:45 & Fulcrum, placed as a mutant vehicle camp, Ukrainians, Americans, Italians and other Europeans, with English as the common language. Everyone took at least one Blue Bull shift, sober, three to eight hours from departure to return, plus a kitchen shift and a MOOP sweep.

The Bull became a moving platform: DJ sets and sunrise rides, performances and art tours, sound healing, random hospitality and syrnyky in deep playa. Sometimes a rave, sometimes theatre, sometimes breakfast with bad timing.

A man beside a trailer loaded with water tanks and equipment in a parking lot at dusk
A lounge of blue cushions and red and white spheres at camp under a golden skyA shipping-container structure with a roof deck at camp at sunsetHands chopping food on a cutting board in the camp kitchenCrew members standing together beside blue cushions on the playaRaising Blue Bull's tail in a dust stormThe crew lifting a section of the Bull's backLifting the Bull's red-and-white nose into placeBlue Bull finished, face to the cameraBlue Bull's truck in a dust storm in camp, a Ukrainian flag on the frameA telehandler beside the half-built Bull on the playaRaising the Bull's head from a ladder, on filmBuilding the Bull's top deck, on filmThe camp build in the dust, Bull parts on the ground, on filmA U-Haul truck and a generator trailer arriving in campWater tanks on a pickup, filled for the campThe container truck loaded and ready to leave for the playaShiftPods in camp at duskThe street sign at 9:45 and Fulcrum, Kurenivka's address in 2026

The week

A wedding, Nova Camp and steaks

The week was full of good moments: a collaboration with Nova Camp on the first day, great parties, Blue Bull at its best, and a closing night to remember.

One evening the Bull drove to a wedding, Ros Rusakov’s, hosted by the camp, and played a great set. On Burn Night Yaro grilled steaks on Blue Bull while the Man burned.

Blue Bull →

A large sculpture lit pink and green at night, shaped like a ship breaking in two
A tall lit robot figure on the playa at nightCooking steaks at night in campThe camp kitchen crew at nightCampers posing together at nightNight falls over the playa, camp lights on the horizonThe Man against the sky, on filmBlack Rock City from the air, on filmNeon art on the playa at night, on filmA fire-breathing art car at night, on filmThe Man burns, on filmEmbers after the burn, on film

Art of 2026

The art page

Mutant vehicle · Art car

Blue Bull →

In their words

2026, as people told it

“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)

Track of the year

Coming soon. Meanwhile, listen to the camp onSoundCloud.

Built by

The 2026 build crew

The people who arrived first and left last.

  • Yaroslav Korets
  • Tagir Sultanov
  • Yev Zee
  • Yaroslav Diakiv (Mamay)
  • Ihor Klymyuk
  • Nastya Kuzmicheva
  • Ondryk
  • Sergii Malyii
  • Yulia Vasylega
  • Taras Klipin
  • Roma K
  • Vika
  • Dmytro Bershadskyi
  • Alex Isaenko
  • Olesia
  • Dima Zlenko
  • Olya P

Kurenivka 2026 · 36 names on the wall

Were you here in 2026?

New names appear after a quick check by the camp.

  • Andriy Velykyy
  • Andy Rodriguez
  • Anna Blagovisnyy
  • Arkadii Oganian
  • Dima Serhieiev
  • Dima Zlenko
  • Dmytro Bershadskyi
  • Gena Z
  • Igor Kostov
  • Igor Poliakov
  • Ihor Klymyuk
  • Julia
  • Julia Poliakova
  • Katrin Davidoff
  • Masha I
  • Milena Miriushyna
  • Nadiia Vlasenko
  • Nastya Kuzmicheva
  • Natalya Klipina
  • Oleg Kudrenko
  • Oleksandra Ustymenko
  • Olesia
  • Olya Borniakova
  • Olya P
  • Ondryk
  • Pavlo Bobko
  • Sergey Andronyk
  • Stefan Blagovisnyy
  • Tagir Sultanov
  • Taras Klipin
  • Toria Malaei
  • Vika
  • Yaroslav Diakiv (Mamay)
  • Yaroslav Korets
  • Yev Zee
  • Yura

Kurenivka 2026

More from 2026

Blue Bull's face under a cloudy skyBlue Bull from the side, blue with red dotsBlue Bull and cyclists at golden hourBlue Bull among other art cars at sunsetBlue Bull's lit face at night, people aroundBlue Bull glowing at nightThe deck lit up for a night setDJs at the decks in red lightRiders gathered around Blue BullThe Ukrainian flag on the open playaBlue Bull taking shape on the playa, the crew on the deckFitting the blue fur skin onto the frameMany hands lifting the noseThe Bull's horn against the open playaThe Bull's face in full sunUnder the deck: the sound system and fringe curtainRiding past on a motorbikeA camper with the Ukrainian flag at nightPortrait in a yellow jacket at nightA crowd around a fire at duskFriends at night on the playaA fire-breathing art car at nightFlames on an art car at nightA trailer carrying fresh and grey water tanksClose-up of a water heater, pump and propane tanks mounted on a trailerBicycles strapped in the bed of a pickup truckFour crew members taking a selfie at sunset on the playaBlue Bull alone on the open playa, mountains on the horizonLarge black signs with gold lettering standing on the open playaA blue furry art car with horns and a DJ deck on top, parked on the open playa under a cloudy skyTwo people in long blue fur coats standing below the art car's large red faceA camper in goggles and a dust mask by the Bull’s blue tail during the buildThe Bull’s container stage with a Ukrainian flag, crew resting in the doorwayA camper with the Bull’s red-and-white eye on the playa in a dust stormThe crew lifting a blue fur panel onto the BullCrew raising a huge blue fur side panel onto the containerHands up holding the blue fur body in place, Ukrainian flag aboveCrew on top of the container fitting the Bull’s blue fur backThe whole crew holding up the Bull’s back while it is bolted onThe blue fur roof going on over the stage, Ukrainian flag flyingTwo campers rolling one of the Bull’s giant eyes across the playaA telehandler lifting parts of the Bull during the buildMany hands lifting the Bull’s red-and-white eyes into placeA crane lifting the Bull’s tail and eyes over the campThe Bull’s blue tail and eyes rising on the crane against the skyA camper cycling across the open playa, seen from aboveA camper in red on the Bull’s deck under the red fur ballsThe Bull’s black horn against the blue skyA wooden art piece on the open playa, the city on the horizonHuge leaning tower sculptures in the deep playaA camper among colourful ribbons inside the BullDJs on the Bull’s stage framed by blue furBlue Bull from the front on the open playa in daylightTwo campers laughing by the speakers on the BullA camper in a red patterned jacket and feathered hat at duskA DJ in a fur coat at the decks under red lightA camper in a glowing yellow jacket on the Bull at nightThe DJ booth on the Bull in red light, a long exposureThree campers standing in front of the lit Bull at nightBlue Bull’s face glowing pink and blue at nightBlue Bull at sunset with campers dancing in frontTwo campers hugging on the playa in the morning sunA camper in pink by a giant silver octopus art carA camper in pink by the Bull’s red fringe at sunsetA cyclist on the playa at sunset, the Temple on the horizonThe silver octopus art car on the playa at sunsetCampers under the Bull’s stage roof at dusk, the Man in the distanceA camper in a striped coat on the Bull’s deck, the city behindA DJ laughing at the decks on the Bull at sunsetA camper standing on the Bull’s deck at blue hourA singer in white fur at the microphone under red lightCampers in front of the Bull’s lit stage at nightCampers in leopard and fur coats at a night partySlicing steaks on Burn Night by the BullGrilling steaks on Burn Night under the Bull’s blue fur

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2026 in the press