The project aims to reveal the inner workings of an exhibition and show it as the result of teamwork. Participants will break down the exhibition project into its constituent parts and go through all the stages of preparing a group exhibition — from concept development to opening. The exhibition will feature works from the Artsvit Gallery collection.
The programme will allow young people not only to feel part of the process, but also to understand that an exhibition is created through the efforts of many specialists — artists, curators, exhibition architects, designers, communicators, installers, translators, and others. This experience will help them see the exhibition as a collective product, where everyone can find their role and realise their own abilities.
A particular value of the project is the opportunity to work with original works of contemporary Ukrainian art. Participants will get to know the works from the Artsvit collection, in particular graphic series that touch on the themes of industrial landscape, people, and portraits. They will also choose the theme that resonates most today and jointly form a curatorial statement, reflected in their own exhibition.
The programme includes seven theoretical and practical classes and will conclude with a public event — the opening of an exhibition created by the young people. The meetings will take place every Saturday at the Artsvit Gallery from 18 October to 6 December at 2 p.m. Each class will last two hours. Participation is free of charge, but prior registration is required.
Please note: the number of participants is limited to 20 people.
Programme lecturers:
Oleksandra Shovkun – project manager at Artsvit Gallery, curator, cultural expert, author of several educational programmes;
Viktoria Nikitina – curator of the Artsvit Gallery collection.
Design: Andrii Herliuk
The educational programme for young people, "Gallery Lab", was implemented with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, the MC6 Creative Residency, and the non-governmental organisation Inshaya Osvita as part of the Cultural Resistance project, which is funded by the Eastern Partnership programme of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
