Kostiantyn Doroshenko

The Kyiv Marat Gelman Gallery hosts a one-man show by veteran of the installation genre in the Ukrainian visual arts, Lviv- based Andriy Sahaidakovsky. Sahaidakovsky does not visit the capital very often, although he belongs to the top list of the local contemporary art, along with its founding...

Apart from the key benevolent mission — with some of the proceeds of the sales of canvases being used to assist Ukrainian orphans and Chornobyl victims — the charitable auction also turned into a major cultural event and yet another serious project in a series undertaken by L-Art Gallery to...

The conflict surrounding Ukraine’s first time participating in the Venice Biennial, the oldest international forum of contemporary art, brought discord into the small and divided community of contemporary Ukrainian artists. At that time, pessimistic critics even predicted that the first Ukrainian...

Marta Kuzma, the first director of the Kyiv Center of Contemporary Art — founded with funds from the philanthropic billionaire, George Soros — was elected one of the two curators for the fifth European biennial “Manifesta.” Biennials are international art exhibits held once every two years. They...

On the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day, Kyiv’s Helman Gallery hosted a display by postmodern artist Vasyl Tsaholov, titled The Ukrainian X-Files. His series is not cinematographic but purely artistic, having little to do with the noted US television series, although in both cases paranormal...

An artifact, formerly distorted for a certain ideological speculation, can later become an instructive symbol that will help society reawaken. The picture that portrays the killing of priest Antony Hrekovych, painted twenty years ago for the Museum of the History of Kyiv, has assumed today a far...

Kyiv artist and showman Hennady Hutharts staged a real action painting performance at the ceremony of opening his exhibit, Clouds Like Heroes, at the Block A Gallery. The star is a veteran of the Kyiv bohemian world. In the 1980s his name was already popular with the local avant-garde and dedicated...

Tetiana Eva Hershuni, a Ukrainian Canadian postmodernist, has presented her canvas to the Cultural Heritage Museum. Her picture, Nostalgia, was, without doubt, the hit of last year’s Women’s Business (project coordinator: Yuri Matsiuk) exhibit representing Ukrainian ОmigrО women artists. Much...

The first club restaurant opened in Kyiv introducing fruit cuisine, which is popular with fashion circles in both New and Old World, under a telling name Fructopia Fashion Cafe. Halyna Lohvynova, president of the Initia E. M. Company, welcomed the guests in a playful interior in merry yellow,...

Nomen est omen, a popular Latin expression courtesy of Plautus’s Persian Man, meaning “the name speaks for itself,” is the motto of Ukraine’s first Premier Palace Hotel. It is a well-chosen one, because Kyiv is, after all, a European capital. With time, there will be many such hotels, but the first...