Against all odds: Ukrainian exhibitions 2025

NAMU

After a long break in systematic work, the National Art Museum of Ukraine is entering the new year with extensive plans. The first of the announced projects is a solo exhibition by Nikita Kadan (one of the artists of the Revolutionary Experimental Space (R.E. P.) group, whose work is the subject of the exhibition that will run at the museum until early March). The exposition will occupy three exhibition halls and will be based on installations that the artist will donate to the museum. Together with the programme work Treatment Room, which is already part of the NAMU collection, these gifts will make up a good monographic collection of Kadan's works in the museum.

The next project planned by the NAMU has a working title This Is Just an Exhibition. It will be based on a project that was shown in 2023 by the Lublin-based Galeria Labirynt (Labyrinth Gallery) as part of the Kyiv Biennale, but it will be different. As in Lublin, the exhibition at NAMU will feature the works of Ukrainian artists who are in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Bohdan Bunchak, Pavlo Kovach Jr, Max Robotov, etc.), but this time their Polish colleagues will create works specifically for the new project. The curators include Labyrinth director Waldemar Tatarchuk.

Another announced project is an exhibition by Serhiy Pustovoyt, an artist known primarily for his Crimean landscapes of the 1980s. His works are influenced by both hyperrealism, which was relevant at the time, and European art of the 17th and 18th centuries. The artist's wife and heiress Olena Levina donated nine of Pustovoyt's paintings to NAMU. With this exhibition, the museum wants to raise the issue of Crimea and the Crimean Tatar heritage in the context of the history of Ukrainian art: a roundtable will be held to discuss the methodology of researching works on the Crimean theme in the museum collection.

NAMU also plans a large-scale retrospective of Viktor Zaretskyy, which will occupy the entire second floor of the building: works for the exhibition will be collected from Ukrainian museums, private collections, and the artist's family collection. The exhibition will feature the artist's textbook works of the Klimt period, as well as his lesser-known paintings, as well as archival materials, sketches and drawings, some of which will be exhibited for the first time. This will be the artist's second major solo exhibition at NAMU (the first one took place after his death in 1991). The curators want to present Zaretskyy's work in the broader context of twentieth-century Ukrainian art, among his fellow Sixties artists, and to reveal Zaretskyy's influence on artists of the following generations. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme with expert discussions on the relationship between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ art, the terms ‘strict style’ and ‘socialist realism’, and the problems of preserving the monumental heritage of the second half of the twentieth century.

In 2025, the NAMU will also show the exhibition 4 Quarters of Utopia, which the museum is working on with the architect Yuriy Shalatskyy. He was one of the designers of the so-called 4 Quarters, a postmodernist residential complex in Podil, Kyiv (1979-1992), which was never completed according to the architectural plan. The architect donated drawings, photographs, and a digital archive related to this complex (and his work in general) to the museum. The exhibition will tell about the vicissitudes of design and construction that occurred at a time of rapid social and political change, its dialogue with the historical environment of Staryy Podil, and will offer a look at the current fate of the complex, when the intention of its authors has been distorted by additions, decay, and neglect of the buildings. The exhibition's scientific consultant is archaeologist Mykhaylo Sahaydak, the long-time head of the Podil Archaeological Expedition. As part of the public programme, there will be guided tours of Podil.

In addition, NAMU will work with the collection: after the exhibition In the Epicentre of the Storm. Secession on the ground floor, similar projects will take place. Among them will be a presentation of Anatol Petrytskyy's works on the occasion of the artist's 130th birthday, along with a lecture and, possibly, a separate publication. The 100th birthday of Lyudmyla Milyayeva, Doctor of Art History, lecturer at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture and NAMU employee, will also be celebrated with a thematic lecture and a small archival exhibition.

Mystetskyi Arsenal

In March 2025, Mystetskyi Arsenal plans to open a solo exhibition by Anna Zvyahintseva, an artist who occupies an important place in the current Ukrainian art scene. In her practice, Zvyahintseva consistently works with the extraction of traces of human presence from the surrounding space and through them speaks not only about the personal but also about the broader political context. The exhibition, which will occupy four arsenal halls, will include works by the artist from 2013 to the present. With this exhibition, Mystetskyi Arsenal plans to start a conversation about important figures of the Ukrainian 2000s. 

At the end of May, the MA traditionally prepares the Book Arsenal, which will also feature exhibition projects - in 2024, there were ten of them as part of the festival.

The Khanenko Museum

The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art is hosting a photo exhibition Courage of a Nation until May, including 50 photographs by American photographer and philanthropist Howard G. Buffett and 10 works by Dmytro Kozatskyy, a Ukrainian soldier and photographer who took the famous photos from Azovstal's bunkers. Museum staff offer special tours for different groups of visitors: military personnel and their families, IDPs, parents with children, and schoolchildren. 

In May-June, the museum will show My Museum, an exhibition of works by Vadym Shamkov, a photographer and exhibition designer at the National Art Museum of Lithuania. The works include non-staged portraits, sketches of the museum's backstage, moments of exhibition projects, and theatrical self-portraits. In particular, a series of self-portraits Beard and Moustache Club will be shown, dedicated to the author's relationship with the exhibits around which the life of any museum revolves. 

In July-September, the project '7' is 'Art' about the Khanenko Museum's library will take place. It will showcase archival documents, art publications, books with inscriptions by famous people, personalised copies, and numerous ‘printed materials’ from the Soviet period. Almost simultaneously, in June-September, the exhibition Troubled Years. Artists from Ukraine at the Ecole de Paris. It will feature works by Ukrainian artists who worked within the Paris School, an international multi-ethnic community of artists from the early twentieth century who gathered in Paris in search of creative, religious and political freedom. This phenomenon can be considered the first example of globalised art in the world. Seven private collectors from Ukraine provide about 50 works by Oleksa Hryshchenko, Vasyl Khmelyuk, Samuel Granovskyy, Jacques Shapiro, Vladimir Baranov- Rossine, and others for display in the museum.

For autumn, the museum has planned the Africa Direct project, which will be the first in Ukraine to be dedicated to the art of the African continent - objects from more than ten African countries will be shown. The works belong to the collections of Andriy Klepikov and Tetyana Deshko, other Ukrainian private collections, and the Khanenko Museum's own fund. Its staff aims to showcase the cultural diversity and artistic richness of the continent and to critically rethink colonial knowledge about the ‘homeland of mankind’. 

Throughout the year, the museum will showcase selected works from the collection as part of the Through the Secret Door project. The new season will start with Asian art exhibits; each presentation will be accompanied by a curatorial tour. 

On 27 February, a bronze sculpture of the god Dyva will be shown (lecturer Yevhen Osaulenko). On 27 March - an ivory sculpture of the god Krishna (lecturer Yuliya Fil). 

A music programme will also continue, combining classical music with the artistic context of the museum. In the second half of 2025, the Khanenko Reading Room will be opened - a reading room and educational space featuring about 1000 publications: catalogues, books about artists and art schools, research and critical publications on contemporary history and art theory, new editions of cultural institutions from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, as well as books from the end of the last century from the Khanenko Museum's library collection. In the future, the reading room will be supplemented with a collection of digitised publications and archival materials from the Khanenko Museum's library dating back to the late 19th century. 

In addition, digitalisation is actively underway: the project Digitisation of the European Graphic Arts Collection of the 16th-20th Centuries at the Khanenko Museum, supported by a grant from the European Union under the House of Europe programme, is scheduled for 2025. It is about 7,000 graphic works that have no reproductions and have remained unexplored and unpublished until now. Part of the collection will be made publicly available. 

Ukrainian House

In March-April, the National Centre Ukrainian House has planned an exhibition Hryvnya. More than Money, which will tell about the history of the hryvnya, its place in the cultural heritage, the evolution of the Ukrainian currency from the times of Ancient Rus to the present, and its prospects. 

In May-June, ProZori will be held to showcase the works of Kyiv artists of the 1960s-1980s whose work defined the intellectual and artistic landscape of the era (Fedir Tetyanych, Valeriy Lamakh, Florian Yuryev, Ada Rybachuk, Volodymyr Melnichenko). Each of them had a worldview system and a philosophical concept that shaped their approach to creativity. These systems are not similar to each other, but they are all based on the principles of universality and integrity. 

In September-October, the Ukrainian House will host the exhibition Oleksandr Hlyadyelov. Photography. The exposition will consist of the master's photographs from 1989 to 2024 with an emphasis on the key historical events of Ukraine: Chornobyl, the Orange Revolution, the Revolution of Dignity, and the war. 

 

For July and August, the centre has planned the project Art of the 21st Century Generation, which will present the work of Ukrainian artists after 2000. They promise to showcase both well-known associations (R.E.P., SOSka, UBIK, Open Group) and new names that entered the cultural space during the war.

In autumn, the second book festival Foundation. Stories about Culture, featuring Ukrainian cultural and artistic publications. It will include several thematic exhibitions.

PinchukArtCentre 

In late February, the centre will open an exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025. The selected artists from Ukraine under the age of 35 will create new works or present recent projects dealing with personal history, collective memory and reflections on identity. A special out-of-competition award will honour the memory of Veronika Kozhushko, an artist from Kharkiv who applied for the prize but tragically died on 30 August as a result of a Russian missile strike on the city's civilian infrastructure. The exhibition will run until 13 July.

In autumn, PAC will open several projects simultaneously. The centre will host a solo exhibition Personal Testimonies by Gabrielle Golayat, the first solo exhibition of the South African artist in Ukraine. Golayat explores the experience of patriarchal violence and the paths to healing. The Ukrainian part of the project, which the artist will create specially, will include personal stories of women, queer, trans, and non-binary people, revealing not only traumatic moments but also practices of survival, solidarity, and love. PAC has also planned an exhibition called The Open Group, featuring three works by the art collective of the same name, which represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and Poland in 2024. These works combine individual narratives with collective memory and deal with the war, which the authors view through an autobiographical and historical lens. Another PAC project that will start in autumn is an exhibition by Lesya Khomenko, an artist from the R.E.P. group. The exhibition will explore the changing images of the individual and society and the deconstruction of painting methods in the Soviet context. All three projects will run from 28 August 2025 to 5 January 2026.

In addition, the centre planned a book presentation and an exhibition of the Research Platform curated by Kateryna Botanova. Over the past two years, the PAC Research Platform has been studying decolonial practices and applying this approach to the analysis of contemporary Ukrainian art since independence. The researchers have been challenging Western representations and perceptions of art from Ukraine, and exploring how we see, identify, and reclaim our own local histories. The result is the exhibition and book Reclaiming History. Decoloniality and Art in Ukraine after 1991. The publication will include texts by curator Kateryna Botanova, researchers Yevheniya Butsykina and Milena Khomchenko, and scholars Svitlana Bedaryeva, Madina Tlostanova, and Adrian Ivakhov.

Kyiv Museum

On 5 February, the Kyiv City History Museum will open the exhibition Archetype of the Ukrainian Hero: paintings, sculptures and installations by Anton Lohov, Vladyslav Shereshevskyy, Serhiy Polyakov, Hanna Kryvolap and others will be on display. The exhibition will last until early March.

On 13 February, the institution will open its next project in collaboration with the Museum of Sixtiers a retrospective by Lyubov Panchenko, Universe of Love. The exposition will include sketches of clothing models, collages, paintings, and decorative paintings. It will also feature multimedia installations developed specifically for this project using artificial intelligence. The project will be open until early June.

And at the end of the summer, the museum will open the project Kyiv through the Lens. From the Past of Kyiv Photography (1860-1930). It will feature the works of the first Kyiv photographers, photographs of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Attention will be focused on architectural photography (images of historical monuments and urban changes in the city), industrial photography (photographs of industrial objects that emphasise the industrial character of Kyiv), and genre and street photography (images of scenes of urban life, everyday life and customs of Kyiv residents). The exhibition will feature works by B. Zakharkevych, M. Posternak, F. de Mezer, G. Chuhayevych, amateur photographs and 3D photos that can be viewed through stereoscopes. 

ARVM

Since the beginning of 2025, the ARVM Museum and Workshop (Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko) has been exhibiting a new exhibition Roads of the Island, which presents paintings and monotypes by Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko created during numerous trips to the Far North, as well as a series of unique sculptures dedicated to these trips. The exhibition is accompanied by guided tours by Oleksandr Galynskyy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ARVM Foundation, film screenings, and master classes in ceramics and mosaics.

The Naked Room

The Naked Room gallery in Kyiv starts the year with a solo exhibition by Alina Kleytman A Terrible Ending or a Nightmare Without End?. Damaged hearts with exposed nerves; crowns made of broken glass; the video work A Place to See Before You Die, filmed in the artist's native Kharkiv; posters that try to simplify and describe all the contradictory and immense experiences we live through - all these works by the artist, who works with the themes of corporeality and sexuality, can be seen in the gallery from 31 January.

In the spring, the gallery will present solo shows by Taras Kovach, Serhiy Sabakar and Darya Kuzmych. In addition, in 2025, The Naked Room plans to hold exhibitions by Lucy Ivanova in Dnipro and Pavlo Makov in Brussels and Rome.

Voloshyn Gallery

At the end of February, Kyiv's Voloshyn Gallery opens the exhibition Anxiety curated by Nikita Kadan. He put it together back in 2022, when the gallery started operating as a shelter. The exhibition includes works by the avant-garde artist Davyd Burlyuk, paintings from the 1970s by the Kyiv nonconformist Kostyantyn-Vadym Ihnatov, postmodernist Oleh Holosiy from the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary works by Vlada Ralko, Lesya Khomenko, Mykola Ridnyy, Oleksiy Say and Nikita Kadan himself. In 2022, the exhibition was open only to invitees, and now the gallery is reopening it to the public.

Dymchuk Gallery

In February, Kyiv-based Dymchuk Gallery presents the Fractured Tomorrows project, which was shown in Munich in autumn 2024 in collaboration with Schnitzer & Art Centre. The exhibition includes works by Dmytro Yevseyev, Mykola Lukin, and Yuriy Pikul. The artists do not resort to documenting the tragedies of the war, they distance themselves from the specific course of events and use the language of painting to recreate the reality of the destroyed world.

In March-April, the gallery will host an exhibition by Alisa Gotz The End of the Land. The project will tell about the artist's experience of living in 2022 in a small international community, far from the bustling city life. The exhibition will include lithographs, sculpture, photographs, videos and an interactive game.

The gallery will devote May-June to an exhibition from the Collection series: paintings by the classics of Ukrainian art of the 1990s and 2000s by Oleksandr Hnylytskyy and Oleh Tistol will be shown. And in July and August, the gallery will hold the exhibition Vulnerability, featuring works by Anastasiya Budnikova and Marina Talyutto. The project will tell about the experience of living through the war and will combine paintings, graphics, installations and objects by the artists. 

Eye Sea Gallery

Kyiv Eye Sea Gallery continues to work with the exhibition Coincidences by Tiberius Silvashi. It includes works from different years, which at the same time look like a certain period of the classic's work. In 2024, this project was created by curators Katya Syta and Kseniya Fokina and shown in Zaporizhzhya and Kyiv. In 2025, it will be taken to Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, and Lviv. 

The gallery is also preparing a solo exhibition by Roman Mykhaylov, a Kharkiv-based artist whose trademark is working with large forms. The exhibition will include new, never-before-exhibited paintings and installations. Another project planned for 2025 is an exhibition of digital and generative art: works by Ukrainian and foreign artists. 

ONFAM

On 7 February, the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum opens an artistic and informational exhibition Unseen Power about the non-violent resistance of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories. Last year, it was shown in Kyiv, Lviv, and Dnipro. The artistic part of the exhibition, curated by Tetyana Filevska, is dedicated to women's resistance and features works by Mariya Kulikovska, Alevtina Kakhidze, Liya Dostleva, Yuliya Po, Emine Ziyatdinova, Yuliya Danylevska, Yana Holubyatnikova, and Diana Berh.

At the end of May, the museum will open a major exhibition project dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the Odesa Art School (now the Odesa Art College named after Grekov), which will cover the period from 1865 to the restoration of independence. The curators (Mykola Lukin, Valeriya Nasedkina, Volodymyr Chyhrynets) want to create a story about the history of the country through the prism of the history of the school, its outstanding students and teachers. Different stages and generations will be represented: Kyriak Kostandi, Yevhen Bukovetskyy, Pavlo Volokydin, late modernism of the 1930s, strict style, the generation of the 1960s (Lyudmila Yastreb, Viktor Marynyuk, Lev Mezhberg). In addition to artworks by students and teachers of the school, archival materials and rare editions will be shown. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive lecture programme.

ONFAM continues to work with the theme of Odesa modernists of the 1960s and 1970s: the exhibition Luda Yastreb. Paintings and Graphics, and in the summer, a personal exhibition of Valeriy Basants, a prominent representative of unofficial Odesa art, will open. In particular, his recent works will be shown: paintings, drawings, and small plastic art.

The museum has also planned a presentation of the ‘Catalogue’ project by the architectural and artistic group MNPL. The group practices conceptual architecture, researches and analyses the architectural environment, and combines rational methods of architectural design with contemporary art practices. The central image of Khatalog is a traditional Ukrainian dwelling, a khata, which is seen as a phenomenon that goes far beyond the typology of residential architecture.

MCAO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Odesa) 

After a long break, the Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art is opening a new location. It will be located in a separate building in the city centre. The first exhibition there will be the project Calypso Mirages: Captured by the Depths by Dmytro Dulphan. Curators Andriy Sihuntsov and Anna Morokhovska aim to show the diversity of the iconic Odesa artist's work: they will present graphic series, paintings, light installations, compositions of porcelain figures, and his signature darkrooms. The exhibition will also draw attention to Dulfan's curatorial activities, including a collection of works by artists who exhibited at his legendary Window Gallery. This part of the project is curated by the gallery's co-organiser Serhiy Polyakov.

In February, the museum will start a series of screenings of Ukrainian and British video art (curated by Andriy Sihuntsov and Anna Morokhovska from Ukraine, and Stanislav Kholodnykh and James Stephen Wright from the UK). Each screening will be dedicated to a different topic. The participants from the UK are James Steven Wright, Nick Crowe, Ian Rawlinson, Monster Chetwynd, Abby Palmer, Ker Wallwork; from Ukraine - Anna Potemkina, Anton Sayenko, Dasha Chechushkova, Katya Libkind and Vitaliy Kokhan.

In the summer, the MCAO will show new works from the collection of Vadym Morokhovskyy, which were donated to the museum for display, including works by Dmytro Erlikh, Serhiy Polyakov, Anna Zilberman, Svitlana Yusim, Mykola Pavlyuk, Petro Konovskyy, Oleksandr Anufriyev, Viktor Pavlov and other Odesa-based artists. In addition, the museum formed a department of Odesa art during the war. The collection has been replenished with the Kherson Files and World War III series by Ihor Husiev, works by Mykhaylo Ray and Yevhen Bal, and a video by Dasha Chechushkova. All of them will be included in the exhibition.

Jam Factory

In March, Lviv's Jam Factory art centre will open the international project Beyond the Silence, organised by Magnum Photos in partnership with Odesa Photo Days Festival (Ukraine), Centro de las Artes San Agustín (Mexico), Africa Artists' Foundation (Nigeria), Vlast (Kazakhstan) and Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (Cambodia) with the support of the Open Society Foundations and the Ukrainian Institute. Launched during the full-scale war in Ukraine, it aims to create a dialogue between photographers from different countries. The exhibition, which will include printed images, videos, and installations, will feature 12 stories by 12 photographers from different countries. The project will be curated by Kateryna Radchenko, founder of Odesa Photo Days. 

Lviv Municipal Art Center

The year at the centre began with the exhibition Creating a World in 10 Days about the search for a safe space for experiences, interpreted through the concepts of ‘symbol’, ‘archetype’, ‘myth’, ‘fairy tale’. The exhibition includes paintings, objects, and a large joint canvas created during the installation. The project was created by artists Abra from Ternopil Region and Rina Riga from Kharkiv. The text for the exhibition was prepared by Oleksiy Kovzhun. Anthropologists, philosophers, and artists are involved in the lecture events of the show.

The next project is an exhibition about the preservation of the memory of the First World War in our country and in the Novakivskyy archive. The architecture of the project is created by Oleksandr Burlaka. The Great War and its catastrophe will be viewed as a blind spot with single tombstones in the landscape of the region.

Another exhibition will be held by the centre with restorers who are working on the multi-layered history of a house in Lviv's city centre using sustainable practices. An exhibition by Yaryna Shumska is also planned, involving various media and performative practices.

Ya Gallery

Lviv's Ya Gallery Penthouse has opened the exhibition Towers and Spires, which will run until the end of March. Curated by Pavlo Hudimov, the exhibition brings together works by artists Andriy Dudchenko and Igor Kovalevych that revolve around towers - their ceramics, paintings and mosaics are on display. And Ya Gallery on Shota Rustaveli is showing the exhibition Bestiary until May: images of animals and fantasy creatures are used here to understand the complex symbolic world where art, psychoanalysis, literature and folk demonology meet. Artists of the exhibition: Anatolii Bazylevych, Arnold Böcklin, Anatolii Vasylenko, Ruslana Hagan, Yakiv Hnizdovsky, Francisco Goya, Otto Greiner, Anna Drohl, Albrecht Dürer, Serhii Kaidak, Max Klinger, Oleksandr Korol, Volodymyr Kostyrko, Mykyta Kravtsov, Olena Kulchytska, Volodymyr Kutkin, Yevhen Lysyk, Volodymyr Loboda, Oleksandr Liapin, Heorhii Malakov, Dmytro Moldovanov, Yaroslav Motyka, Oleksandr Prymak, Valerii and Nadiia Protoriev, Vlada Ralko, Bohdan Soroka, Lesia Tertyshna, Andrii Khir, Vasyl Chebanyk.

Mercury

This year's first project of the Lviv Centre for Intellectual Art Mercury is the exhibition LYSYK, dedicated to the scenography of the artist Yevhen Lysyk. In particular, the exhibition includes large-scale twenty-metre curtains that previously could only be seen from afar in the theatre - they were provided by the Lviv National Opera. Yevhen Lysyk worked as the chief artist and designed about 100 stage sets. The project also presented for the first time a large selection of costume designs that Lysyk created together with his wife Oksana Zinchenko. The Lysyk exhibition will run until 9 March. After it, the centre plans to open an exhibition of works by patients of the Unbroken National Rehabilitation Centre and hold the Third Auction of Ukrainian Art by Mercury Auction House. 

Assortment Room

In the summer of 2025, the Assortment Room Gallery in Ivano-Frankivsk is planning a retrospective - or archival - exhibition of Yevhen Samborskyy, the initiator and co-founder of the Open Group. It will showcase several stages of the Frankivsk artist's artistic practice: street art, participatory and collective practices (within the Franchise and Open Group formations, in collaboration with Polish activist Paweł Althamer), and individual works. The exhibition will be held in several locations in Ivano-Frankivsk.

In addition, the Assortment Room will take over the baton from the Kyiv Biennale to curate the Pochen programme in Chemnitz, Germany. In 2024, the creative director of the 5th Kyiv Biennale, Serhiy Klymko, curated the Pochen Biennale with the major Ukrainian programme The Fire Comes From The East, and at the end of May 2025, the next Pochen exhibition will be curated by the director of the Assortment Room, Alyona Karavay. This exhibition will be part of Chemnitz's programme as the Capital of Culture'2025. In September, part of the exhibition and public programme will be shown in Ukraine, hosted by Jam Factory and Assortment Room.

Na poshti

In April, the Ternopil Creative Cluster Na Poshtі will hold the international festival of experimental music and media art Hamselyt, which will be revived after a five-year hiatus. The festival will traditionally feature an exhibition of media art (curated by Oleksandr Dolhyy). There will also be lectures, VJing, a masterclass in spatial sound by the British organisation IKLEKTIK, and performances by Ukrainian, Polish and British artists. The festival is supported by the British Council in Ukraine. Next year, Na Poshtі also plans to present a book about Polina Rayko, which will be accompanied by projects by Teresa Barabash and an exhibition by Anatoliy Dnistrovyy.

KRCC

In early February, the Kryvyy Rih Centre for Contemporary Culture will open a large-scale feminist exhibition Visual Voices of Women. The exposition will bring together works by ten artists (Oksana Zharun, Kseniya Kostyanets, Nastya Eh, Mariya Kulikovska, etc.) who explore the topics of feminism, gender equality and sustainability in contemporary society. The parallel programme will include open lectures with feminist experts, a workshop on gender mainstreaming, and a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities for women in business. 

The inclusive exhibition project Sun Rises in the West curated by Kostyantyn Doroshenko, which opened in August 2024, continues to evolve. The project, which aims to engage older people in active cultural life through collaboration with artists, will be shown in Germany, France, and Luxembourg. 

In addition, the centre will host the MYPH Photography Prize 2024 exhibition in Kryvyy Rih (bringing together the works of eight winners of the competition organised by Serhiy Melnychenko's MYPH school; it opened last year at the Dymchuk Gallery in Kyiv) and hold an interactive exhibition KR250 dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Kryvyy Rih: audio and video installations, participatory objects.

Artsvit

The Artsvit Gallery in Dnipro has opened the exhibition World Press Photo 2024, which brings together the best examples of photojournalism and documentary photography from 2023.

In spring, the gallery will open an exhibition by Lucy Ivanova. Curators Lisaveta Herman and Mariya Lanko planned this project even before the full-scale invasion began, specifically for Dnipro, the artist's hometown and the first point on the path of her professional development. Now, a new layer is added to the story of the formation of the artist's pictorial language in the Ukrainian academic system: the reinvention of herself and her own practice in the context of emigration and motherhood. During this time, the artist created personal projects in Vienna and Budapest, and took part in exhibitions in Paris and Fontecchio, Italy.