On 31 January, Kryvyy Rih Centre for Contemporary Culture will open the exhibition Kryvyy Landscape: Reconciliation, dedicated to reflecting on the city’s industrial landscape, the organisers have announced.
The exhibition is the third and final part of the series within Ruda Project 2025: Landscapes of Recovery, a project focused on the industrial heritage of Kryvyy Rih as a space of memory, trauma and long-term transformation.
According to curator Kostyantyn Doroshenko, the art project invites viewers to rethink the recovery of an industrially exploited landscape where nature and industry exist in a constant state of conflict. Recovery here is not a return to a “normal” state, but a process of reconciliation — a concept rooted in the Ukrainian words for “consent” and “dignity”.
The curator speaks of dignity present in nature, in labour, and in architecture that respects boundaries and demonstrates care and attentiveness. At the same time, the notion of a “crooked landscape” serves as a reminder that nature does not contain perfect forms or harmonious combinations, nor a universal visual balance. Every landscape is, in one way or another, crooked — shaped by an unpredictable number of factors that render architectural, engineering and economic calculations ultimately powerless.
The exhibition will feature works by Artem Humilevskyy, Kseniya Kostyanets and Tamara Safarova, presented in the formats of installation and video. The exhibition space is located at Kvitka Café, 10 Sicheslavska Street.
About Artem Humilevskyy:
– Ukrainian artist;
– explores identity, history and human resilience;
– works with conceptual photography;
– winner of the Global Peace Photo Award (Austria, 2022), Rovinj Photodays Award (Croatia, 2025), and Kolga Tbilisi Photodays Award (Georgia, 2025).
About Kseniya Kostyanets:
– Ukrainian poet and visual artist;
– works with collage, installation and video art;
– explores interactions between the city and nature through tactile materials such as stone, fabric offcuts, wires and threads.
About Tamara Safarova:
– Ukrainian artist;
– works across painting, graphic art, comics, photography, digital art and performance;
– explores how individual pain becomes collective memory and transforms into action.
The Territories of Culture project is implemented in partnership with Persha Pryvatna Brovarnia and is dedicated to exploring the history and transformation of Ukrainian cultural identity.