This exhibition will present everything we created during the course - products made of paper, wool and other natural objects. In addition, we offer parents of our young artists to get to know these materials better and learn what place they occupy in the culture of mankind. Several creative workshops will be held in the gallery space, in which all guests of the event, under the sensitive supervision of children, will learn the magic of recycling, transforming natural materials into art.

We would like to share the news: the Artsvit Gallery received a number of children's books as part of the "Suitcase with Books" project, and from now on, a small library will operate in our classes of the "Artsvit for Kids" program.

We have already started using them - to introduce children to the works of both Ukrainian and foreign authors. You can also take books from our suitcase home for a certain period of time for free, but they must be returned so that more children have the opportunity to read interesting works.

Tomorrow we are opening the offline part of the project "Secondary Archive. Women Artists at War", namely the exhibition at Galeria Labirynt (Lublin, Poland). It will feature works by Ukrainian artists who joined our digital archive in March, as well as artists from Poland. It starts at 7:00 PM (Warsaw time).

And the next day, May 19, Alya Segal and Waldemar Tatarczuk will lead a tour of the exhibition. This is a unique opportunity to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of the project and the context of the exhibition from the curatorial duo. After that, you can watch a performance by project participant Olia Marusyn.

The workshop space invites you to talk about a paradise place — and to search for what this place consists of for each person. A bird, a house, constellations, animals and forgotten letters, tall trees and hidden stones — using the principles of combinatorics and the combination of elements, each of the participants will create their own composition on fabric using printmaking techniques.

The artist invites us to discuss space and emptiness in her works, how empty, clean spaces can speak to the viewer no less effectively than concrete forms. In addition, Tetiana Pukhnautseva will explain why she loves the colour white and what else it can be, as well as how an image grows out of the air of a sheet of paper, its gradual manifestation, the counterform and the role of the background within her works — in short, everything that plays an important role in the artist's practice.

At the workshop ‘Paradise Animals, Joyful Animals’, we will talk about WHAT exactly a paradise animal can be, who it is and what it consists of — is it joyful or sad, fluffy or short-legged, does it have wings or three magical tails? We will come up with plenty of bizarre animals, and we will turn the most beautiful, tender, and funniest ones into printing plates and print them on fabric, putting them all together — each child will collect their own team of animals on fabric, learn how to print on an etching press, roll out paint, and work with art prints.

The exhibition “Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War” sheds new light on the art of women who, amidst the backdrop of war, transmute their experiences into a universal and timeless artistic language. It brings together diverse perspectives, encompassing female artists directly impacted by war and those from Poland, who encounter conflict on a distinct level. Featuring various forms of expression such as painting, drawing, photography, installation, object, and video.

The exhibition's opening takes place on Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 p.m. at Galeria Labirynt, ul. ks. J. Popiełuszki 5, Lublin. This project is realized in collaboration with Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro) and the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation.

As promised, we continue to raffle off Tanya Pukhnavtseva's works from her exhibition ‘Ragged Edge’ for donations. The next prize is the second part of the diptych — the linocut ‘The Orchard (2)’.

We remind you that to participate, you only need to donate 10 hryvnias and your entry ticket is yours. The more you purchase, the higher the probability that you will be the winner!

The Ukrainian Institute in Germany together with the Artsvit Gallery within the framework of the project "RAZOM/RHIZOM. Stärkung überregionaler Kulturpartnerschaften" ("RAZOM/RHIZOM. Strengthening Interregional Cultural Cooperation") announces an open call for project applications aimed at strengthening international regional cultural partnerships. This call is aimed at Ukrainian and German NGOs operating in the socio-cultural sphere and intending to implement joint German-Ukrainian projects in 2024.

We invite you to attend the presentation of the book by publicist, historian, curator, and art critic Kostyantyn Doroshenko, ‘According to Kyiv Time,’ which will take place on 12 April at 6:30 p.m. at the Artsvit Gallery.

Konstantin Doroshenko's collection of essays, ‘According to Kyiv Time,’ is a reinterpretation of his work on Ukrainian culture and society since 1995. In portraits of well-known and little-known compatriots, reviews of cultural and social events, and polemical statements, the author analyses trends in Ukraine's development as an independent state, its achievements and mistakes along the way.

The new course is called “Artsvit for Kids. Nature of Ideas | Ideas of Nature.” Now we will work not only with the body and movement, but also with the space around us: going from the inside out, noticing the world, learning to be part of it, exploring through the senses, existing in the moment. It will be a kind of performative transformation of ideas into movements. But of course, no one has cancelled play, so it will be diverse, interesting, and fun. In addition, we will introduce children to the phenomenon of recycling — we will use natural materials in our creativity, transforming them into art. 

We finish talking about the participants of the latest addition to the Secondary Archive project — "Women Artists at War". We are grateful to everyone involved in the creation of its second edition, as well as those interested in our work. However, it is still ongoing and more formats and new research will be waiting for you in the future, so stay tuned!