Projects recommended by Ukrainian Institute
3D-tour for How are you? exhibition
With the basis of the exhibition being The Wartime Art Archive (WAA), Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art / UMCA presented over 500 works created by more than 100 artists. The project's goal was to reflect on the experiences of Ukrainians during Russia’s full-scale invasion and take a step towards shaping a shared vision of the future.
Virtual exhibition "Deportations. Visual memory'"is the first attempt to organize and critically analyze the photographic heritage of special settlers from Western Ukraine.
The couple of Mykhailo and Olha Tymovchak, with their daughter Lesya, Lviv, 1950. Source: Private archive of Lesya Tymovchak
The central theme of the exhibition is the journey of returning home and the reclamation of one’s voice, lands and heritage. The exhibition discovers dominant political narratives concealing individual stories and speaks about disappearance in landscape alongside the overwhelming historic events. This overarching narrative ties together the artworks, creating a cohesive message of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.
The project by the Ukrainian Institute “Postcards from Ukraine” aims to record and demonstrate the damage caused to the Ukrainian culture by the Russian troops as a result of the bombings and shelling during the full-scale war that Russia launched against Ukraine on February 24th, 2022.
Culture Fights Back: Ukrainian Artists at War
After the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, the entire Ukrainian society united and stood up defending Ukraine. Not only the professional military but also cultural figures. The Culture Fights Back project to share stories of artists and civil society representatives who have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Selection of posters, illustrations, and comic books by a group of Ukrainian illustrators — Pictoric.
Exhibition of Ukrainian photography is the winner of a long-term programme by the Ukrainian Institute aimed at supporting exhibition projects outside of Ukraine Visualise, co-produced by IZOLYATSIA/ Ukraine as well as MOMENTUM and Points of Resistance / Berlin supported by the Goethe Institute and the Goethe Institute in Exile.
I Dreamt of Beasts is an exhibition that showcases evidence of Russia's war in Ukraine, and the crimes of the Russian army, but also tells a story of Ukrainian heroes through works of art and documentation. Co-organized by Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro) and Labyrinth Galeria (Lublin) in 2022.
Heart of Earth is an exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art that focuses on the triangle of food—human—earth. It presents the artworks (painting, photography, video, sculpture, graphics, installation) of 16 emerging, mid-career, and prominent Ukrainian artists.
The new exhibition project of the curator of the art centre "Ya Gallery" Pavlo Gudimov unites more than half a hundred authors from all over Ukraine who present art in real-time, that has appeared during the war. The creative environment reacted particularly actively to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The second front is the cultural front, which is not silent, experiences, gushes with ideas and has an active position. Through social networks and mass media, artists, designers, architects and representatives of other fields are demonstrating many new works reflecting on the war.
Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian photography
This exhibition project curated by Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk and Oleksandr Soloviov in cooperation with Mystetskyi Arsenal represents a plurality of methods used within the photographic medium in Ukraine during the last almost three decades.
The Captured House was created with the intention to spread more information about the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and provoke a sympathetic response. The exhibited pieces have been created since February 24, and the artist's work is still ongoing.
Hotel Ukraine is an exhibition dedicated to the horrors of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Curated by Konstantin Akinsha, a Ukrainian curator, known for his exhibition about the Maidan in 2014 at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the exhibition will include installation, paintings, drawings, video, and photo-based works, created before the war.
Painting in Excess: Kyiv’s Art Revival, 1985–1993
This exhibition traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of transitional and exhilarating years in Kyiv while providing some historical artworks for context.
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s
The exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s presents the ground-breaking art produced in Ukraine in the first decades of the 20th century, showcasing trends that range from figurative art to futurism and constructivism.
The exhibition traces the path of futurism: “Infection” occurred with the ideas of new art in Ukraine took place during Volodymyr Izdebskyi’s “Salons” organized in Odesa, Kyiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv (1909, 1911).
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023
The Albertinum is dedicating a comprehensive survey exhibition to modern Ukrainian art. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, video works, graphic art and archives represent Ukrainian art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.
