The opening will take place on June 26 at 18:30 simultaneously at two locations - the Artsvit Gallery and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture. This is a continuation of the exhibition that took place at Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv in the summer of 2024. The project is part of an exhibition cycle dedicated to the topic of gaps in the linear historical narrative and the discovery of new connections between artistic phenomena in Ukraine.
“Looking into the Gaps II” focuses on landscape, territory, and biotope as alternatives to the ideologically organized “spectacle of history.” The project includes two “exhibitions within an exhibition”. The first one, “Islands of the Vulnerable,” tells about sensuality that does not coincide with the rhetoric of “invincibility,” but at the same time exists alongside it in the reality transformed by the war. The second, “The Tale of the Glove,” refers to the collection of the ArtSvit Gallery as an “art landscape” where artworks form a dense network of connections. Individual objects from outside the collection respond to its themes, enriching the existing context.
In his project, the exhibition curator Nikita Kadan develops the ideas of Ukrainian art history as a history of ruptures, interruptions, losses, self-censorship, transformations, and continuous movement. He proposes to see the exhibition as a flanking of the landscape of the disaster-not to categorize it, but to be in it, to wander and see connections that are not obvious, not centered, and devoid of hierarchy. Here, the province is not subordinate to the center, but stands on an equal footing with it; here, art breaks down into fragments that create a new coordinate system themselves.
The project raises the question: what to do when your periphery becomes the epicenter of world attention - and then disappears from the radar again? Is it possible to create a new map of art in which ruptures are a form of integrity?
"This exhibition is about the ways of looking at art, determined by the terrific and funny circumstances of Ukrainian life. This exhibition can be read as a project of a museum in which the desire to claim power through writing history has already failed. Or as an unstable system in which “classical," “contemporary," “marginal," "popular" authors find themselves outside their usual niches and positions in the classification. Like a moving landscape of art that instantly makes any map obsolete. Or as a story about the stolen past, recreated by its shadows and echoes - with full readiness for these shadows and echoes to deceive you and lead you astray", — Nikita Kadan
WHEN: June 26, 2025, at 18:30
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, 21a Krutohirnyi Descent, Dnipro. Entrance through the glass door from the side of Uspenska Square
ENTRANCE IS FREE
Curated by: Nikita Kadan
Participants: Kateryna Aliinyk, Pavlo Bedzir, Yevheniia Belorusets, Sviatoslav Bozhii, Oleh Voloshynov, Volodymyr Vorotniov, Daniil Galkin, Kseniia Hnylytska, Oleh Holosii, Zheka Holubientsev, Ania Dovhan, Halyna Domnenko, Pavlo Dubinin, Yurii Yehorov, Olia Yeremieieva, Serhii Yerzhykovskyi, Kateryna Yermolaieva, Viktor Zaretskyi, Halyna Zoria, Yurii Izdryk, Dana Kavelina, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Heorhii Kazakov, Stepan Kyrychenko, Alina Kleitman, Yurii Kovalenko, Katia Kopeikina, Henrietta Levytska, Volodymyr Levchenko, Yurii Leiderman, Yevhen Leshchenko, Anatolii Lymariev, Viktor Maryniuk, Krystyna Melnyk, Vasyl Myronenko, Lada Nakonechna, Halyna Neledva, Maia Nikolaieva, Nataliia Oliferovych, Parfion (Oleh Parfonov), Oleh Perkovskyi, Marharyta Polovinko, Taras Prokhasko and Oleh Hnativ, Kyrylo Protsenko, Vlada Ralko, Yevhenii Rakhmanin, Andrii Rachynskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi, Andrii Sahaidakovskyi, Anton Saienko, Yevhen Samborskyi, Karina Synytsia, Marta Syrko, Petro Sytnyk, Oleh Sokolov, Bohdan Sokur, Yurii Solomko, Fedir Tetianych, Ivan Tykhyi, Illia Todurkin, Kateryna Turenko and Anna Nykytiuk, Oleksandr Freidyn, Lesia Khomenko, Volodymyr Tsiupko, Dasha Chechushkova, Arkadii Chychkan, Davyd Chychkan, Sana Shakhmuradova Tanska, Myroslav Yahoda, Unknown authors
Design: Alla Sorochan
Attention: the exhibition contains sensitive content: nudity, war scenes, and the aftermath of hostilities.
The exhibition project “Looking into the Gaps” was initiated by Voloshyn Gallery in 2024. The exhibition was realized in cooperation with Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv) and Assortment Room (Ivano-Frankivsk) at Artsvit Gallery and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture.
The exhibition presents works from the collections of Artsvit Gallery, Pavlo Martynov, Voloshyn Gallery, Nikita Kadan and the Estate of Oleg Golosiy and TheNakedRoom Gallery, the Estate of Marharyta Polovinko.
