This exhibition attempts to see the value of brokenness, collect scattered sadness, and extend the hand. Where there seemed to be integrity finally broken, it will appear precisely because of looking at the rupture line, which is uneven and trembling.
Gather everyone, and leave no one behind. No one will be left behind.
Tetiana Pukhnavtseva
World Press Photo Exhibition 2023 opens at Artsvit Gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture on February 2nd, 2024. Presenting the results of the foundation’s annual photo contest, the World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of 2022. The event in Ukraine is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine. The exhibition partner — Odesa Photo Days Festival.
Dnipro is the third city on the national exhibition tour. Over 2000 viewers visited the exhibition in Kyiv and Kharkiv from November 2023.
Our artistic and educational project, "Artsvit for Kids 2023”, has ended: it was an exciting and rich ten weeks of thorough work, which should be finalized and, most importantly, presented to others. This exhibition features many works: masks, comics, sculptures, various drawings, figures for shadow theater, and even cartoons. They embody the knowledge about art and the world, satisfaction, and joy that the participants of the program received in the process of their creation. But the gallery team and teachers' main task was to allow children to freely fantasize, use their imagination to the maximum, feel like real artists, and simply be children: direct, inquisitive, and happy.
«…To all those who urge us to "stop hating not to become the same with russians”.
To all those who want peace, but don’t understand that peace can be only won in a battle. That rage is fuel. Rage gives energy for the fight and fight – is not only survival, it is life itself. Strong feelings, strong words and strong actions, even if they may destroy you, are better than avoidant silence.
There are events as a result of which ordinary life seems to stop. Everyone's catalyst for such changes is something special, something personal. Global upheavals also do not pass without a trace — even when an empty city after the destruction gradually comes to life, and people return to their homes, the feeling of emptiness remains. It may never be possible to return to the usual routine.
What did the author want to say? What do I see in this image? Two questions with which acquaintance with the exposition begins. Sometimes we try to understand the artist and learn more about his/her experience, and sometimes we try to understand ourselves, focusing on our feelings and vision. Depending on the optics we choose, our perception of the exhibition is formed, and everything boils down to interpretation.
The "Protective Layer" project continues Kostiantyn's creative practice. Still, the changes in reality that are happening now have forced him to reconsider the meaning of previously created images and invented techniques.
For us, this is an actual result of a long and conscientious work with children in a difficult time for everyone. Art, communication, education - all these helped and still helps children cope with today's challenges. What kind of results are these? Art objects made by children from 6 to 13 years old, collective exhibition of young artists. We would like to share this with more people, so we invite everyone who wants to join the presentation of the project already this Saturday!
We are happy to announce that the Artsvit Gallery is opening a new exhibition outside its own walls. "I Dreamt of Beasts" will be available at the Labirynt Gallery (Lublin, Poland) from November 25 to February 5, 2023. The exhibition was created from the thought of an enchanted forest, which was previously a place of walking, tranquillity and peace for us, and now it is full of threats: mined areas, places of rape, murder and shocking social tragedies...
The exhibition is the resulting work of a group of artists who remained working in Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion. The artists presenting at the exhibition have united around the improvised residence ‘The Working Room’ (‘Robocha Kimnata’) in the Institution ‘The Assortment Room' (‘Asortymentna Kimnata’) located in Ivano-Frankivsk. After February 24, all residence artists from the central and eastern regions of Ukraine relocated to western cities, detached from their practice, archives, and contexts. After a few weeks of laboratory work at the residency, and despite minimal mental adaptation, the project spread to other cities in Western Ukraine and expanded to 17 artists. Remaining in a common workspace in Ukraine, the artists collaborated for three months, opposing their human consternations to develop new methods of understanding the present reality.
On September 29, we will open an exhibition of posters based on the results of the competition "The country will not build itself" from the public organization Center for Joint Actions.
On July 22, at 7:00 p.m., the Artsvit gallery will host the opening of the exhibition "Like in a movie...", to which we have invited 15 artists who, in their works, interpret the experience of wartime, which we all have been experiencing since February 24. This is the first exhibition project since the beginning of the full-scale invasion that we have managed to organize in Artworld, so do not miss this event, and we will be looking forward to seeing you.