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List of Recent Exhibitions Ukrainian artists

2025

Azzurro giallo è verde speranza, sala espositiva di vicolo degli Ariani 4/a (Ravenna, Italy), 7th – 16th February 2025, organized by Associazione Malva – ucraini di Ravenna APS. Exhibitors: Berezhna Natalia, Bychkova Sofia, Di Giorgio Leonardo Mario, Goncharuk Liudmyla, Martseniuk Oksana, Ostapiuk Kateryna, Pershyna Valeriya, Sorokina Iryna, Stout Robert, Sydorenko Iryna.

2024

Iryna Maksymova, Landscape’s Body, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), 19th September – 9th November 2024. Curated by: Ivan Quaroni.
Link: https://colomboarte.com/iryna-maksymova-landscapes-body/

International art project Sense of Safety, YermilovCentre (Kharkiv, UA), 29th August – 17th November 2024. Curated by Antiwarcoalition.art and YermilovCentre.
Link: https://safety.antiwarcoalition.art/

Zhanna Kadyrova, Devil of Comparisons, Palazzo Chigi Zondadari (Siena, Italy), 27thJune – 8th December 2024. Curated by: Massimiliano Bastardo.
Link: https://www.palazzochigizondadari.com/arte-cortemporanea-in-corso/

Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Pavilion Ukraine “Net Making”,
Arsenale (Venice, Italy), 20th April – 24th November 2024. Curated by: Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi. Exhibitors: Katya Buchatska, Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, Daniil Revkovskyi, Andrii Rachynskyi, Oleksandr Burlaka.
Link: https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/ukraine 

From Ukraine: Dare to Dream
, A Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Contarini Polignac (Venice, Italy), 20th April – 1st August 2024, presented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre. Curated by Bjorn Geldhof, Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre, Ksenia Malykh, Head of the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre, Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Junior Curator of the PinchukArtCentre. Exhibitors:  Kateryna Aliinyk, Allora & Calzadilla, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Fatma Bucak, David Claerbout, Shilpa Gupta, Oleg Holosiy, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Dana Kavelina, Nikolay Karabinovych, Lesia Khomenko, Yana Kononova, Kateryna Lysovenko, Otobong Nkanga, Wilfredo Prieto, Oleksiy Sai, Anton Saenko, Fedir Tetianych, Anna Zvyagintseva, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy.

Photo exhibition “Beyond borders: Ukraine’s untold stories, Council of Europe’s headquarters (Strasbourg, France), 22nd – 26th January 2024, organised by Ms Leyla Kayacik, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Migration and Refugees, and the Permanent Representation of Ukraine to the Council of Europe. Exhibitor: Council of Europe’s photographer Sandro Weltin. Link: https://www.coe.int/it/web/portal/-/photo-exhibition-beyond-borders-ukraine-s-untold-stories-opens-in-strasbourg

Colors to draw peace, Spazio IsolaSET – Palazzo Lombardia (Milan, Italy), 12th – 29th January promoted by associations Vitaworld, Vitaukr, Colors for Peace in collaboration with Kherson’s Art School. Curated by Yulia Slipich.
Link:
https://eventi.regione.lombardia.it/it/colors-to-draw-peace


2023

Zhanna Kadyrova, PALIANYTSIA, Biblioteca Classense, Sala del Mosaico (Ravenna, Italy), 14th October 2023 – 14th January 2024. Curated by: Maria Rita Bentini.
Link: http://www.ravennamosaico.it/ita/

La tavolozza ucraina in Italia
III edizione – Dolore e speranza, Galleria d’arte Il Leone (Rome, Italy), 9th – 19th September 2023, organized by Ucraina CreAttiva APS (Rome) in collaboration with Ambasciata d’Ucraina in Italy. Exhibitors: Lilia Babiak, Olena Hromova, Ivan Karas, Andrii Kateriniuk, Volodymyr Lutsyk, Lilia Mochula, Svitlana Pasirska, Iryna Zuza.
Link: https://www.leone-arte.com/event/la-tavolozza-ucraina-dellitalia-dolore-e-speranza/

Contra spem spero. Storie dall’Ucraina, Mattatoio (Rome, Italy), 27th June – 27th August 2023, organized by Odesa Photo Days Festival and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo. Curated by Kateryna Radchenko. Exhibitors: Lyubov Durakova, Nazar Furyk, Kateryna Aleksieienko, Alena Grom, Gera Artemova, Mykhailo Palinchak, Elena Subach, Pavlo Dorohoi, Serhiy Korovainyi, Dmytro Tolkachov e Volodymyr Petrov.
Link: https://www.mattatoioroma.it/mostra/contra-spem-spero-storie-dall-ucraina

Ukrainian Art in Italy – Human Rights, Centro culturale Altinate/San Gaetano (Padua, Italy), 2nd – 26th March 2023, organized by the associations Vitaukr, Let’s do it Ukraine e Let’s do it Italy, in collaboration with Assessorato alla cultura del Comune di Padova and with the sponsorship of Regione Veneto, Ambasciata d’Ucraina in Italy, Ambasciata d’Italia in Kiev, Istituto italiano di cultura in Kiev. Curated by Liudmila Vladova Olenovych. Among the exhibitors: Artem Azarov, Mykola Krivenko, Matvey Vaisberg, Marian Luniv, Igor Prokofiev, Giampiero Cudin.
Link:
https://www.altinatesangaetano.it/it/eventi/mostra-ukrainian-art-italy-human-rights


2022

Vite in movimento. Sogni e sfide di 16 adolescenti in Italia – mostra fotografica, Stazione Tiburtina di Roma (Rome, Italy), 10th – 18th December 2022. Organized by UNICEF in collaboration with Grandi Stazioni Retail and Accademia Italiana.
Link:
https://www.unicef.it/media/vite-in-movimento-mostra-unicef-roma-tiburtina/ 

We Are All Connected – an exhibition of works by six Ukrainian artists, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre (London, UK), 23rd November 2022 – 5th February 2023.  Exhibitors: Anna Dovhan, Illya Turyhin, Ivanna Bahriychuk, Yuliya Yeromina, Sofia Melnyk, Yaryna Shumska.
Link:
https://www.migrationmuseum.org/event/we-are-all-connected-an-exhibition-of-works-by-six-ukrainian-artists/

Russian War Crimes, Russia House, World Economic Forum 2022 (Davos, Switzerland), 22nd -26th May 2022. Organised by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrainian association of professional photographers, Media Initiative for Human Rights. Exhibitors: Mstyslav Chernov, Philip Cheung, Maxim Dondyuk, Yevhenii Zavhorodnii, Petro Sazonov, Efrem Lukatsky, Mikhail Palinchak, Pavel Dorogoy, Oleksiy Sai.
Link:
https://www.russianwarcrimeshouse.org/

The milk of dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Pavilion Ukraine “The Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua alta”, Arsenale (Venice, Italy), 23rdApril – 27th November 2024. Curated by Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys Filonenko. Exhibitor: Pavlo Makov.
Link:
https://www.labiennale.org/it/arte/2022/ucraina

Ukraine: Short Stories. Contemporary artists from Ukraine. Opere dalla Imago Mundi Collection, MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo di Roma (Rome, Italy), in collaboration with Fondazione Imago Mundi, 10th March – 25th April 2022. Curated by Solomia Savchuk. Exhibitors: Alevtina Kakhidze, Victor Sydorenko, Vlada Ralko, Illya Chichkan, Taya Galagan (Tatiana Gershuni), Taras Kovach, Maksym Mamsykov, Pavlo Makov, Sergiy Petliuk, Stepan Riabchenko.
Link: https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/ukraine-short-stories; https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/progetti/mostre/ukraine-short-stories-contemporary-artists-from-ukraine/