How to properly form a CV and make an interesting portfolio, where to look for people from the community to introduce them to your artistic practice, who to contact — Alya will tell you in more detail this Friday. The curator will give some practical advice on communication between artists and curators and point out the main mistakes of beginners.

The Russian war in Ukraine directly affects culture, destroying museums and heritage. How does contemporary art confront and reflect such cruelty? What is contemporary Ukrainian art like, caught up in war and experiencing serious transformations and experiences of loss and trauma? Is there room for creativity, love, and care in this tragic history of today?

Today we are opening the collective exhibition “The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood” — the opening will begin at 6:00 PM, the curator of the project Alya Segal will lead a tour, during which she will tell more about the works in the exhibition, their authors, and share the stories of women who enter into a dialogue with artists.

If you are not lucky enough to get to the opening, do not be upset, because the next day, on Saturday, there will be a second curatorial tour — it will actually start a rich program of public events that we have prepared for you within the framework of this exhibition.

We invite you to the opening of a group exhibition of six Ukrainian artists, "The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood," which brings together the works of Kinder Album, Anna Zvyagintseva, Olga Kuzyura, Daria Molokoyedova, Margarita Polovinko, and Dasha Chechushkova. Curator: Alya Segal. The opening will be held on July 5 at 6:30 PM at the Artsvit Gallery. It will run until October 5, 2024. The project also includes a number of public events, including a performance by Olga Marusyn and lectures by Kateryna Yakovlenko and Olga Balashova.

Our residents have finally returned from Warsaw and are ready to share their thoughts and impressions with the Dnipro residents through a performative action. “Where people walk, grass does not grow” is a reflection of the participants of the “Integration Lab” on the project that has been going on for the past three months. The event will take place on June 29 at 6:00 PM.

When is the beginning of modern art in Ukraine? If it didn't start today, why does everything start from the beginning? When did painting die and who erected a heroic monument on its grave? What remains when it seems that nothing is there? After all, where are you looking, Angel of History?

This lecture will discuss the role of the periphery, marginality, painting-centricity, text, and research in modern art in Ukraine. About the distant and the near, about miracles in half an hour, about the end of the end, and the 1990s, which constantly return.

On June 20 at 7:00 PM, we invite you to listen to artistic practices from artists as part of the group exhibition "The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood," which is being held at the Kyiv gallery The Naked Room. As part of the event, Secondary Archive participants will talk about the process of writing statements for the platform and read their own statements. We will talk about the meaning of the archive, common lines in practices, and the impact of community and networking.

The Integration Lab is coming to an end and its participants from Dnipro and Warsaw are about to unite in a single group to apply new experiences and knowledge at the final event of the residency, which will take place on June 22 at 3:00 p.m. — it will be an artistic intervention by participants of the Integration Lab at the exhibition "Tiger Came into the Garden. The Art of Maria Prymachenko" in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

PinchukArtCentre invites Ukrainian artists aged 35 and under to submit applications for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, the first nationwide award in the field of contemporary art. 20 nominees will be selected to create new works that will be presented in an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in 2025. Applications are accepted from June 3 to July 28, 2024.

From May 13 to 17, Iryna Polikarchuk from the Artsvit Gallery and Yulia Kryvych from Solidarny Dom Kultury "Słonecznik" participated in a networking workshop in Wrocław, organized by Insha Osvita and zusa as part of the "Culture Helps" program.

The exhibition “The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood”, brings together many stories and testimonies. The Secondary Archive project, featuring the artists represented in the exhibition, started out as an attempt to capture the direct speech of women artists while their role in the artistic environment is still fragile. When men start wars, women's voices can become quieter. Northern Cultural Capital, a non-governmental organization, has collected testimonies of women who survived the Chernihiv Oblast’s occupation.

We are launching the last charity raffle for a donation within the framework of the "Ragged Edge" exhibition. But this time you can become the owner of one of Tatyana Pukhnavtseva's works from her "Forgotten Animals" series, which is presented in the exhibition of the Artsvit Gallery - we have not prepared such a prize yet.