The new edition (IV) of Secondary Archive Ukraine focuses on the theme of return:

— the return of artists who have become military service members to the art field through bringing visibility to their practice and personal histories;

— the return of artists who were born or professionally realized abroad but maintain strong ties to Ukraine - not only through their identity, but also through the themes they address (migration, trauma, periphery, etc.). In this case, the return is understood as discursive and intellectual re-engagement with the Ukrainian art context;

— drawing attention to artists who have remained on the margins of visibility and outside dominant or visible communities. 

On September 26, Artsvit for Kids launches its autumn art programme «Legends about the City», led by Alina Shtefan. The programme invites children to explore the mysteries and legends of the city and discover its places of inspiration.

Meetings will take place every Saturday for 10 weeks: at 11:00 AM for children aged 6–9, and at 1:00 PM for children aged 10–13.

We will discover what secrets the Great River has hidden beneath the water, build cardboard bridges, write a short diary of a future traveller, create our own tram line with unusual stops, invent their names, and draw a map of the starry Dnipro. There will also be many other discoveries, adventures, encounters, and creative experiments along the way!

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and its partners invite female-identifying visual artists aged 35 and under from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine to apply to Secondary Archive.

Secondary Archive is an online archive dedicated to the work, perspectives and voices of women artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The Open Call invites a new generation of artists to become part of the platform and contribute their perspectives to the archive.

We are excited to invite you to a long-awaited event for the Artsvit team — the presentation of the gallery’s collection website next Friday!

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.

«Ukrainian Art: Decolonizing Perspectives» is a series of lectures running from mid-September to mid-November. Invited speakers include Kateryna Yakovlenko, Oksana Barshynova, Anastasiia Manuliak, Aliona Penzii, Alya Segal, Sviatoslav Chyruk and others.

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.

For eight Saturdays, one of the gallery’s spaces will transform into an Open Studio. The invited artists will introduce their artistic practices and activities through public artist talks and workshops available by registration. At the end of the day, we invite you to continue the informal conversation and reflect on the gained knowledge and impressions in the cosy atmosphere of Dniproprostir.

Each workshop offers different ways of giving artistic form to ideas: from working with textiles and pastel made from coal dust to reinterpreting artefacts from family photo albums and recreating the forgotten technique of sgraffito.

Programme participants: Svitlana Ahranovska, Emma Hamza Grünwald, Oksana Zharun, Inga Levi, Anastasiia Leliuk, Olesya Papushnikova, Anna Taradina, Emma Hamzayeva, Asya Yakovlieva.

Open Studio” programme — a series of events with artists working across various media.

We invite you to share your own artistic practice in Dnipro. The programme offers an opportunity not only to present your artistic projects, but also to share your creative methods and engage with Dnipro's art community through hands-on exchange.

We are pleased to announce the names of the artists we have invited to participate!
A huge thank you to everyone who applied!

The residency is curated by Polish performer and artist Waldemar Tatarczuk, whose artist talk we will announce soon.

Oleg Suslenko and Marko Medvedev - mentors of the residency, who also prepare events at the intersection of performance and sound for everyone interested in experiments with these media.

The public presentation of the residency results will take place in mid-August!

We are delighted to announce the results of the open call for the Hey, My Name Is Land Art residency!

Congratulations to our participants:

— Adelina Burnakhovska
— Nata Zakharchuk
— Kateryna Koniushenko
— Emil Mamedov
— Terra Neidorf
— Anastasiia Rozumna
— Oleksandr Suprun

We sincerely thank everyone who submitted an application!

Together with the residency curator, Waldemar Tatarczuk, we propose to explore performance as an intermedial method of artistic practice — one that allows for experimental approaches to creative processes where action, time, presence, and lived experience become the material.

We welcome applications from performers, theatre practitioners, and people open to collective experimentation with backgrounds in visual arts, contemporary music, DJing, generative media, writing, drag, and other artistic disciplines.

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

We invite families with kids to explore the exhibition Pharmacy of  the Heavens through a special exhibition quest.