We have collected all sorts of leaf fall exhibitions that can be seen in Kiev: from two miraculous exhibitions by the artist Oleksandr Murashk to a large-scale exhibition dedicated to Vasyl Stus in the Mystetskyi Arsenal.
“Olexander Murashko. Color modulations”
Until 25 September, National Art Museum of Ukraine
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Until the 150th anniversary of the birth of Oleksandr Murashko (1875–1919), the National Art Museum of Ukraine presents the exhibition “Olexandr Murashko. Color Modulations,” which brings together nearly 50 paintings and Mitsya's graphic works from collection to the museum. Before the exhibition, there are works that cover all stages of the artist’s work – from the early “Still Life” of 1892, Murashka’s first published painting, to the expressive “Women with Quits” (1918), This became Mitz’s remaining great work and marks a new stage in his artistic endeavors.
Mnemosina
Z 4 to 31 leaf fall, The Naked Room
Elena Yemchuk is a Ukrainian artist, photographer, and author of Vogue covers, who has lived in the United States for eleven years. In Ukraine, they are familiar with the series “Odessa” and “Hydropark” for photo books, but also the works of mistkin, presented in the format of the exhibition in Ukraine. The exhibition “Mnemosyne” showcases street photography from Elena, taken during the period of her greatest visits to Ukraine from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. This great archive of that time – in contrast to the current staged and carefully composed photographs – is gray, crumbly, out of focus, as the curators of the exhibition Lizaveta German and Masha Lanko reveal. In this, the main theme for the artist is highlighted – a person, surrounded by a special secret, which seems both real and familiar, and at the same time divined and even mythical.
“The premiere will never happen”
9 leaf fall – 11 September 2026, 3.6.9. Space Kyiv
“The premiere will never happen” is an exhibition that brings together theatre, cinema, painting, music and photography. Its curator and author is theater artist Tetyana Ovsiychuk, winner of the Shevchenko Prize, author of costumes for Ivan Urivsky’s most famous performances “The Witch of Konotop”, “Macbeth”, “Mary Stuart”. The exhibition is dedicated to the theme of historical memory and the growth of a generation and to create a show like no other… The music before the exhibition was created by the composer, choirmaster and author of the music before the show “Konotop Vida” Susanna Karpenko, author of Svetlin, what you can see in the exhibition – Sonya Plakidyuk.
The exhibition is inspired by Spilne’s platform of contemporary mystique.
“Am I the problem here?”
Until 4 pm, Center for Sustainable Mystery M17
The project explores women in the current reality and context of war, and the messages that women face in culture and marriage. The curator of the project was the mystic Maria Kulikovska. Current Ukrainian artists from different generations and regions take part in the exhibition; Those who are both in Ukraine and behind the border, among them Alevtina Kaikhdze, Yulia Belyaeva, Ksenia Gnilitska, Olga Stein, Masha Reva.
“Vasil Stus. Leave me here, everything will be fine”
13 leaf fall – 8 fierce, Mystetsky Arsenal
As long as we’re here, everything will be fine,” Vasyl Stus wrote to his friend Anatoly Lazorenko in 1962. These words will resonate with everyone who, in the epicenter of a turbulent reality, is searching for strength and resilience. There are a lot of Ukrainian figures, thanks to whom the appearance of Vasyl Stus in the singing sense has become a cult. Vasyl Stus on display There will be presented views of the Ukrainian samvidav and tamvidav, the mystical works of Alla Gorskaya, Opanas Zalivakha, Galina Sevruk, Boris Dovgan, speeches from the camp of the war, books, leaves of the past, historical documents Other options are available. And stories from the life of Vasyl Stus will be presented in dialogue within the framework of Ukrainian Independence.
The curator of the project is Olga Melnik.
Ukrainian pavilion “Not For Sale” at Expo 2025
Until 16 leaf fall, Ukrainian House
The exhibition represents the Ukrainian pavilion, which was displayed from the evening of the World Exhibition EXPO 2025 in Japan. In two years, the Ukrainian House will become a place where you can see the exhibition, which has collected over three million visitors and won two large cities in the categories “Best Activation or Engagement” and “Exhibition Design”.
The concept of the Ukrainian pavilion in Japan was not at all similar to those that are expected to be shown at exhibitions around the world. “The store where you can’t buy anything” has an area of 53 sq.m and, despite its small size, contains the respect of the whole world. Bo Ukraine presented at EXPO those that lie at the basis of whatever may come – value. 18 items that symbolize democratic values – freedom of speech, the right to choose, humanity and others. The skin object contains a corresponding barcode, which can be “read” by dispensers using special store scanners. After scanning the prices, video stories from Ukraine appear on the screen to show the current “price” that Ukrainians will pay in the future.
“The World of Yakov Gnizdovsky”
6 leaf falls – 1 year of 2026, Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora
In 2025, Ukraine and the world mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Yakov Gnizdovsky (1915-1985), a Ukrainian and American mystic, one of the most prominent graphic artists of the 20th century century, the author of unique ornamental woodwork. The mystic gained fame and recognition far beyond the borders of Fatherland – in emigration from the United States. Today, go ahead and collect recent Ukrainian and foreign museum and private collections. “The All-World of Yakov Gnizdovsky” represents over ninety woodcuts, lenorites, etchings and paintings of the 1940-1980s from the collection of the Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora, the National Art Museum the Museum of Ukraine, the Scientific Library of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Shum Art Gallery and the cultural institution “MizhVuhami”.
“Olexander Murashko. Kiev vibrations”
Until 25 September, National Museum “Kiev Art Gallery”
Another exhibition by Oleksandr Murashka, this time at the Kiev Art Gallery. The exhibition presents portraits of Mitz’s present-day relatives, friends and well-known articles of that time, including opera singers Pavlo and Lyubov Andreyevi, Katerina Kruger, Anna Kruger-Prahova. The exhibition highlights the artist’s connections with the German community of Kiev, through the homeland of Margaret Kruger’s squad. One of the central works of the exhibition is the portrait of the squad of the German consul Eric Goering “The Lady in White Feather”.
