Exhibition "Ukrainian Art after 2000. Glossary"

National Cultural Center "Ukrainian House, Kyiv | UA

July 18 – August 24, 2025

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Art After 2000. Glossary engages with our shared history through the lens of art as both anticipation and reflection of change. The project examines the transformation of artistic lexicons amid sociocultural shifts, presenting works by seventy Ukrainian artists and inviting a rethinking of the symbolic language of contemporary history.

The exhibition is structured as a journey through a “glossary” of Ukrainian art from the first quarter of the twenty-first century. The curators have constructed an alternative, poetic dictionary, composed of terms inspired by artworks, exhibitions, and philosophical concepts, each serving as a key to understanding the present. Artists whose practices emerged or were shaped after the turn of the millennium appear here as perceptive interpreters of social and cultural transformations, intuitively sensing shifts before their full articulation and offering new perspectives on the world and the self.

The glossary includes seven terms:

1. No Monuments for Monuments
2. The Body That Wants to Become Landscape
3. Diffusion of Identity
4. Propaganda of the World of My Dreams
5. Society of the Spectacle
6. Active Optics of Time Passing at the Speed of Light
7. The War of Inscriptions

These concepts correspond to works by Dana Kavelina, Khrystyna Melnyk, Stas Volyazlovskyi, Kateryna Lysovenko, Daniil Revkovskyi, and Andrii Rachynskyi, alongside the theoretical frameworks of Guy Debord and Paul Virilio. They demonstrate how art functions not merely as illustration, but as a fully-fledged medium for articulating change.

The project guides visitors from term to term, revealing the evolution of an artistic language that continuously transforms with time, while searching for new and resonant forms of expression.

Participating artists include: Mykhailo Alekseienko, Kateryna Aliynyk, Artgroup SVITER, Yan Bachynskyi, Yuliia Belyayeva, Anatolii Bielov, Yevheniia Bielorusets, Nazar Bilyk, Yurii Bolsa, Kateryna Buchatska, Open Group, Stas Volyazlovskyi, Danylo Halkin, Uli Holub, Sofiia Holubeva, Olha Yeremeyeva, Kateryna Yermolaieva, Yuliia Zakharova, Anna Zvyahintseva, Hamlet Zinkivskyi, Dobrynia Ivanov, Sonya Isupova, Dana Kavelina, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Oksana Kazmina, Taras Kamennoy, Alevtina Kakhidze, Alina Kleitman, Yana Kononova, Alina Kopytsia, Yevhen Korshunov, Yuliia Kostereva and Yurii Kruchak, Vitalii Kokhan, Olha Kuziura, Mariia Kulikovska, Sasha Kurmaz, Anton Lapov, Kateryna Lysovenko, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimey, Khrystyna Melnyk, Roman Mykhailov, Roman Minin, Lada Nakonechna, Serhii Petliuk, Viktoriia Pidust, Yurii Pikul, Margaryta Polovinko, Serhii Popov, Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi, R.E.P., Mykola Ridnyi, Stepan Riabchenko, Anton Saienko, Oleksii Sai, Denys Salivanov, Ivan Svitlychnyi, Karina Synytsia, Stanislav Turina, Viktor Kharkevych, Maksym Khodak, Lesia Khomenko, Sana Shakhmuradova Tanska, Anna Shcherbyna, Ihor Chekachkov, Dasha Chechushkova, David Chychkan, fantastic little splash, ruїns collective, SOSka.

Organizer: National Center “Ukrainian House”

Curatorial Team: Tetiana Kochubinska, Valerii Sakharuk, Oleksandr Soloviov, Kateryna Tsyhykalo

Project implemented in collaboration with: NGO “Platform of Cultural Initiatives”

Annual Partners: Visa, Oschadbank

Institutional Partner: Adam Harber Foundation

Technical Partner: Ergo

Partners: Caparol Ukraine, Avalon Artesian Water

Media Partners: Suspilne, Artslooker, Druk Press

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