Celebrating Our 13th Birthday!
05/07/2026

Celebrating Our 13th Birthday!

Thirteen years ago, we began our journey with a belief in the power of contemporary art to bring people together. Today, we continue to be a place for encounters, conversations, discoveries, and cooperations — a space where new meanings emerge and where the time we live in is reflected.

We are sincerely grateful for this year's connections, exhibitions, events, and the fantastic worlds imagined together with the gallery's youngest visitors.

We owe our deepest gratitude to Ukraine's defenders for making it possible for us to continue our work amid war—to everyone who is protecting the country today. We mourn the losses, and at the same time, humanity, care for one another, and solidarity give us the strength to keep moving forward.

Thank you to each and every one of you for trust, presence, support, critical perspective, curiosity, openness, and willingness to engage in dialogue.

The Artsvit Gallery programme is currently realised by Oleksandra Shovkun, Iryna Polikarchuk, Viktoriia Nikitina, and Bohdan Somov. In June, Stanislav Pyvonos joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

We continue to work, dream, and create together!

 

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The event will feature Victoriia Nikitina, curator of the collection, and Oksana Barshynova, art historian and Deputy Director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The discussion will be moderated by Oleksandra Shovkun.

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The programme examines the colonial influence on several generations of Ukrainians from different angles of view, with particular attention to Dnipro and the eastern regions of Ukraine. Many of us grew up in an environment where Russian narratives dominated in education, in the media, and in the art. Today, we critically rethinking the contours and extent of this influence and learning to distinguish what is ours from what was imposed on us. This is not only a cultural process but also a personal one: a process of reclaiming an identity alienated by Moscow-centrism and russification.

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