11 April – 26 April 2023

The exhibition project in the museum - "LIVE" united the works of three Ukrainian artists: Nataliya Kohal, Olena Tolkachova and Anna Tsarykovska. They embodied their own individual emotional experience from experiencing the events of the war in real time into works.

The exhibition-project "LIVE" began on February 24, 2022. Conceived as a way of emotional self-protection of female artists, it turned into a large project that develops in time and space, is replenished with new works and will be completed with the end of this war. The exhibition in the walls of the Kyiv Art Gallery is the third location within the framework of this project. The first exhibition was held at the Mytets gallery in October 2022, the second at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in December 2022.

The war that has been raging in Ukraine for eight years has come closer to each of us, it has ceased to be a somewhat abstract phenomenon that is happening far away and is not with us, it has acquired a terrible reality, which poured into the information space live with pictures of destruction and death, deafening our native Kyiv with alarming silence, spoke the language of distant and nearby explosions, surrounded himself with roadblocks, anti-tank hedgehogs. At the same time, this is the time when a new heroic history of Ukraine, courageous and indomitable men and women, is being written.

For three women who come from the dynasties of Ukrainian artists, it became a matter of principle to stay in Kyiv during this difficult time. They are witnesses who can record images, emotions and sensations that overwhelm, contrast the archaic horror of destruction and death with the beauty and eternal energy of art.

In their works, the appeal to sacred symbols, forms and signs (such as images of plants and birds, the Ukrainian wreath, towels, ornamental and decorative motifs of the Tryplian culture, etc.), philosophical reinterpretation of the events witnessed by the artists, is caused by an acute desire to preserve their unique face, culture and identity, to be not a cosmopolitan inhabitant of the world, but a UKRAINIAN artist who creates his history here and now together with his country and his people.

The full price of the ticket is 100 UAH.