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.

This year, Artsvit is contributing to a new edition for Secondary Archive. Alongside the partners from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, Belarus, and Slovakia, we are introducing a new group of Ukrainian women artists to the project's map. The curators of the Ukrainian part of the archive are Kateryna Iakovlenko, Alia Siehal, and Oksana Briukhovetska.

The names of the new artists will be announced in early March 2027.In the meantime, you can find the statements by artists from previous editions on the Secondary Archive website.

"Hey, My Name is Land Art" is to exploring the relationship between art and the environment.
It is designed for artists who seek to expand their creative toolkit, work beyond institutional spaces, and explore the possibilities of artistic expression through engagement with natural and urban environments.

Throughout the residency, participants will explore the history and theory of land art, environmental art, site-specific practices, and other approaches that engage with place, landscape, and context.

"Extended Learning" brings together educational initiatives for artistic and academic communities, parents and children, as well as wider audiences in Dnipro.

The themes of memory, identity, and the decolonization of cultural narratives that have shaped the environment of eastern regions of Ukraine are central to the program. Above all, it is a space where it is possible not only to gain knowledge but also ask questions about personal and collective experiences, history, and the ways it can be understood today. We combine various formats of learning, research, participation, and knowledge-sharing.

The gallery’s collection brings together established artists from different generations alongside compelling yet lesser-studied local authors. Its key areas of focus include print graphics, industrial and urban themes, Soviet informal and young contemporary art. Altogether it offers a unique perspective, discovering names and movements that have remained overlooked.

The collection contains many works that form part of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, and it is important to us to make them visible and accessible.

Series of 8 Saturday workshops for children aged 6–10, exploring food, imagination, art, favorite stories from books, anime, manga, and comics. Together, we will “cook up ideas” through drawing, creating objects, collages, masks, decorations and shared imaginary worlds.

On June 7 at 3:00 PM, an Open Doors will be held by Shevchenko State Art School at the Artsvit gallery.

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition project Pharmacy of the Heavens — a collaborative work by Dnipro-based artists, painter Volodymyr Gabuda and sound artist Oleksandr Suprun. The opening will take place on June 5 at 6:30 PM. Combining painting, poetry, and a spatial audio installation, the exhibition will run until August 8, 2026.

Pharmacy of the Heavens continues a long-term artistic project that Volodymyr Gabuda has been developing over the past several years. This new cycle emerges as the next chapter following the exhibition Mutations, presented in 2025 at the Dnipro Art Museum. As the artist notes, the project evolves gradually — through separate fragments, like a book written in process. While Mutations focused on trauma as a protective reaction and on unconscious mechanisms of resistance, Pharmacy of the Heavens turns to a condition in which the traumatic transformations of reality have already become part of everyday life, requiring conscious “healing” actions.

At the end of April, Artsvit Gallery’s collection curator Viktoriia Nikitina took part in a networking event for participants of the Museum Futures programme, within which we are developing a website dedicated to the gallery’s collection.

During the meeting, participants presented their institutions and projects, shared the challenges that arise when working with artistic and historical collections, and discussed possibilities for future partnerships and collaboration. A separate part of the event focused on group work around current issues of preserving, researching, and representing visual art collections.

On 24–25 April, Iryna Polikarchuk, director of the Artsvit Gallery, took part in the international interdisciplinary seminar ‘Culture Defence / Kultura Ochrony’, held in Lublin (Poland) as part of the European Capital of Culture Lublin 2029 programme, in collaboration with the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology at UMCS.