Weekend plans in Kyiv are full: graphics by Francisco Goya at the Khanenko Museum, kinetic sculpture by Nikita Kadan at Pavilion 13, and sculpture by Oleksandr Sukholit at the new Art Ukraine Gallery.
“Disparates”
until July 26, Khanenko Museum
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On the occasion of the 280th anniversary of the birth of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, the Khanenko Museum presents the famous series of engravings “Los Disparates” (The Disparates) for the first time in Ukraine. The exhibition consists of three interconnected parts: Goya's works, a 23-meter-long painting by the Kharkiv children's art studio Aza Nizi Maza, in which Goya's series is reinterpreted as a dream about the coming of age of the fictional teenager Francisca Talan, as well as textual reflections by contemporary authors created within the framework of the open-air exhibition.
“New Integrity”
until May 13, Pavilion 13
Nikita Kadan's work “New Wholeness” explores how indivisibility is broken and restored. It is based on in-depth interviews with Ukrainian veterans and was developed in collaboration with Sofia Lavreniuk, PhD in Sociology. The work brings together individual narratives of injury, amputation, prosthetics, and rehabilitation, tracing how physical and psychological wholeness is reimagined after trauma.
Drawing on the tools of documentary theater and sculpture, Kadan imagines prosthetic limbs as “witnesses.” The structures assembled from them perform slow, repetitive movements on stage, like puppets or ancient automatons. These movements respond to Clemens Poole's soundscape, composed of veteran testimonies and voiced by actress Anastasia Segeda.
“Chernobyl. Shelter”
from April 24 to May 21, Ukrainian House
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the Ukrainian House is opening the project “Chernobyl. Shelter Object”, which reinterprets the myth of Chernobyl as a layering of landscapes: cultural and natural, lost and found, scientific and magical, tragedy and shelter.
Through documentary evidence, the exhibition will guide viewers through the path from the Chernobyl accident itself and the liquidation of its consequences to the landing of a Russian drone in a new safe confinement in February 2025, demonstrate the preserved heritage of Chernobyl Polissya, highlight the Jewish history of the Chernobyl region, present Ivan Lytovchenko's preparatory materials for the mosaics in Pripyat and Yuliy Sinkevych's sketches for the Prometheus monument, which has become a symbol of the city. The artistic interpretation of the 1986 disaster will be presented through Maria Prymachenko's Chernobyl series, works by Viktor Zaretsky, Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko, Lyudmila Meshkova, documentary photographs by Viktor Marushchenko, works and photographs by liquidator artists Oleg Veklenko and Dmytro Nagurny, and many others.
The curators of the exhibition are Oleksiy Ananov, Tetyana Gauk, Alisa Grishanova, and Oksana Semenik.
“My Eden”
until May 24, Art Ukraine Gallery
The renovated Art Ukraine Gallery has opened an exhibition by Oleksandr Sukholit, one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Ukrainian art. “My Eden” immerses the viewer in the world of the artist's studio and garden – a space where sculptures coexist in a living dialogue with nature.
The exhibition opens the renovated location of Art Ukraine Gallery, a space of approximately 700 m² on the Pechersk Hills. The project will collaborate with important names and iconic figures of the Ukrainian art scene, as well as young and promising artists.
“Vertebrates”
until May 10, Garage33 Gallery-Shelter
“Vertebrates” is an exhibition by Crimean Tatar artist Renata Asanova about the experience of displacement, loss, and the impossibility of returning to the previous form — and at the same time about the constant mutation in order to continue existing.
The central image of the project is ceramic objects that capture the state of an organism that can no longer stand it, but continues to exist. These forms are somewhere between the body and the plant, between the bone and the roots – they can be read as the anatomy of the psyche or as botanical anthropology. Textile structures unfold next to the ceramics – cocoons, tents, temporary shelters, which are the habitat of the experience of home.
The exhibition emerged from the artist's month-long unauthorized residency at Garage33 — as an experience of coexistence with the space.
“The Circle of Spring”
Avangarden gallery
The exhibition “The Circle of Spring” is about the feeling of renewal and the beginning of a new life cycle that comes with spring. The exhibition presents works by classics of Ukrainian modernism, masters of naive art and contemporary artists. Among them are Alena Andreeva, Oleksandr Babak, David Burliuk, Polina Dmytrichenko, Taras Hayda, Pavlo Horobets, Viktor Yefimenko, Albina Kolesnychenko, Olga Krykun, Elizaveta Mironova, Roman Mikhailov, Valentina Novak, Maria Prymachenko, Marfa Tymchenko, Alena Shibunova, Serhiy Shyshko, Lisova 3.
Flagrante
until April 26, thesteinstudio
Artist Yaryna Fedoriv presents a collection of engraved glass glasses created during the winter in Kyiv.
For the past few years, she has been working with the rare Italian traditional technique of ring engraving on glass. The artist's practice focuses on working with transparency and reflection. Yaryna creates her own map of the land of tenderness – an image of a new way of life. In contrast to the conditions – cold, darkness, the hum of generators, candlelight and lack of sleep – this is an attempt to form a space filled with gentleness, in which there is no hint of suffering.