7 Years of the Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art! 24.08.2025

Seven years ago, with great determination and belief in the power of contemporary Ukrainian art, we opened the doors of the Korsaks’ Museum — a space that has become a unique center of art, innovation, and cultural dialogue. Over these years, we have been part of many important moments in Ukrainian cultural life and continue to develop ideas that inspire change.

On August 24th we celebrate the Birthday of the Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art!

We are endlessly grateful to all who help create this unique space: artists, experts, visitors, and partners — and we invite you to immerse yourself in the world of art together with us.

Program for August 24th:

  • 14:00 — Guided tour of the Korsaks’ Museum (participation fee — admission ticket)

  • 14:00 — Children’s tour of the Museum of Science, Technology and Industrial Design (participation fee — admission ticket)

  • 15:00 — Workshops across several Museum locations (participation fee — admission ticket)

  • 16:00 — Immersive performance “Cosmogony” (viewing fee — admission ticket)

  • 17:00 — Opening of Viacheslav Hutyria’s exhibition “Journeys” (free admission)

We warmly invite you to share this important day with us!

ART RETREAT at the Museum! On August 16, 2025, at 5:00 PM, the Creative Retreat with Art Therapy and Sound Healing will take place at the Korsaks` Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art

We invite you to join us for intuitive drawing with closed eyes, during which we will experience healing sounds.

We will begin with yoga nidra—a deep relaxation practice, also known as “yogic sleep.” It helps to calm the body, release tension, and dive into the contemplation of the inner space.

Throughout the retreat, sound healing will take place—therapeutic vibrations of natural instruments. This is not just music—it’s sound therapy that impacts the deeper layers of consciousness.

Next, we’ll engage in blindfolded drawing, without control, logic, or attempts to “draw something right.” This is drawing as meditation.

The cost of participation in the retreat is 200 UAH (the price of a full museum ticket).

We look forward to immersing together in the atmosphere of harmony, creativity, and deep self-discovery.

See you on Saturday, August 16 at 5:00 PM!

(Українська) Два музеї Луцька – один квиток: нова вигідна пропозиція для туристів і містян

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OPEN CALL | The Other Nearby | June 19, 2025 — September 19, 2025

Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art announces an open call for artists to join the large-scale interdisciplinary project “The Other Nearby”

This project is more than just an art event — it is a profound ethical and aesthetic initiative designed to raise critical questions of our time. It explores the human-animal relationship, pushing it beyond conventional perception.

The animal is not a resource, not a function, not “mine.”

It is the Other. Beside us.

“The Other Nearby is an exhibition about presence without possession.

About the Other who need not be conquered, domesticated to helplessness, adorned or trained into convenience.

About the animal as a personality: independent, capable of connection, emotion, and empathy — but not necessarily of submission.

This exhibition is an attempt to look not at the animal, but with it.

Not through a human lens, but side by side.

Not “what it is to us,” but “who it is — in and of itself.”

Exhibition goals:

  • To propose a new mode of thinking — not anthropocentric, but ethically coexistent.

  • To inspire a shift in perspective: from “owner” to “partner.”

  • To create an artistic and emotional space where the Other is not a threat, but an opportunity to become more fully oneself.

We invite artists to join the conversation about coexistence, care, freedom, respect, and empathy.

About the possibility of being together without ownership.

About another form of love — quiet, equal, present.


Key themes:

  • The animal as witness — silent, deep, present in our sorrows, love, loneliness, wars, escapes, and returns.

  • A reciprocal gaze — what does a cat see when it looks at a human? What does a dog feel when it hears our tears?

  • Dignity without words — no need to speak to be worthy of love.

  • Equality in coexistence — not an object of care, but a subject of connection.


“The Other Nearby” is:

  • A new public space for reflecting on ethics in relationships between living beings.

  • An attempt to reshape visual and social narratives where the animal appears not as an object but as an equal participant in the world.

  • A platform for dialogue between artists, philosophers, researchers, activists, and the public.

  • A large-scale exhibition combining visual art, sound, text, body, digital practices, and the experience of observation.


Artistic focus of the exhibition:

  • Works that reject sentimentalization — not “cuteness,” but ethical depth.

  • Depictions of animals not in positions of weakness, but in their own environment, in their own gaze, in their own choice to be near.

  • Art where human and animal are not master and subordinate, but two beings in a shared space of trust.

  • Video, photography, painting, installations that explore silent unions, unspoken love, the gaze as a form of language.


We welcome artists working in:

  • Painting

  • Graphics

  • Photography

  • Textile

  • Installation

  • Digital art

  • Video art

  • Sound art

  • Performance


To apply:

  1. Send an email to: [email protected]

  2. Use the subject line: OPEN CALL “The Other Nearby

  3. Include:

    – your CV or a short bio

    – samples of your work that best align with the project concept


Organizational info:

  • Selected works will be chosen by the Expert Council of KMUCA (Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art)

  • All participating artists will receive a copy of the exhibition catalog

  • Artwork transportation will be provided by the museum


The project is supported by the Lutsk City Council.
Deadline: September 19, 2025

On August 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM, the Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art will host the opening of the project “Place of Existence” by artist and curator Dmytro Erlikh and sound engineer and sound artist Illia Petrov.

On August 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM, the Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art will host the opening of the project “Place of Existence” by artist and curator Dmytro Erlikh and sound engineer and sound artist Illya Petrov.

The project “Place of Existence” is an attempt to capture the moment before a leap, before making a decision, before a change.

The installation is built as an environment between cliffs — both physical and metaphorical — creating a space of choice. It is a place where intuition meets doubt, spontaneity meets decision.

You are welcome to join us!

We will be glad to see you at the opening, to share a moment of silence before movement, a space before choice, a thought before the leap.

On Friday, July 18 at 5:00 PM, a lecture by Yevheniia Kupchan titled “Photography as Post-Performance” will take place at the Korsaks’ Museum. Запитати в ChatGPT

Can photography be more than just a document — can it become an independent artistic gesture? How does the act of documenting a performance transform into its continuation?

Let’s talk about post-performance — a phenomenon that emerges at the intersection of photography and performative art. During the lecture, we will explore:

– how the idea of post-performance originated;

– why photography has become its primary medium;

– what defines post-performance in Ukraine (through the lens of Pavlo Mazai and other artists);

– how studying the body as a carrier of experience through post-performance became a personal artistic practice for the lecturer.

Yevheniia Kupchan is a multimedia artist and independent curator. In her work, she combines photography, performance, and media as tools for reflecting on experience.

We warmly invite everyone — join us for a rich and captivating discussion on contemporary post-performance.

Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art

Free entry

FILM DAY at the Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Modern Art — July 13 at 6:00 PM

59 Seconds Video Festival & AI59 – Anniversary Screening in Lutsk!

To mark the 20th anniversary of the legendary 59 Seconds Video Festival, the international art project Project 59 is launching a global series of 20 screenings — and Lutsk is on the map!

Program Highlights:
– A curated selection of the best 59-second videos from the 2005–2008 collection

– New works created with artificial intelligence in 2025

Each video is exactly 59 seconds long, yet speaks louder than a full-length film.

Expect documentaries, political satire, narrative and experimental video, visual poetry, and provocative mini-masterpieces — all united by one rule: 59 seconds of unleashed creativity.

2005 was the era of early video editors (Final Cut Pro, iMovie) — tools that democratized video art for creators worldwide.

2025 brings a new wave of experimentation — with AI, algorithmic creativity, and digital hybridity.

This anniversary screening is a bridge between two eras.

A creative dialogue of then and now, in a format under one minute — yet vast enough to hold entire worlds.

The exhibition “At the Intersection of Time and Space” by Dmytro Velychko will open at the Korsaks’ Museum on June 27 at 5:00 PM

On June 27, at 17:00, the Korsaks’ Museum will open an exhibition by Dmytro Velychko „At the Intersection of Time and Space“.

Dmytro Velychko is an Odesa-based artist known for his abstract compositions that explore the relationship between time and space.

Entrance to the event is free. 

Location:
м. Lutsk, 1 Ivan Korsak str.
Korsak Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art

Opening hours:
– Mon-Fri: 12:00-20:00
– Sat-Sun: 11:00-20:00

Contact number:
066 142 51 18

The exhibition “Liubist” by Pavlo Mazai will open at the Korsaks’ Museum on June 20 at 5:00 PM.

“Liubist” is a rarely used Ukrainian word that means the same as “love.” The same — yet not quite. Liubist carries an additional dimension — an all-encompassing sincerity, authenticity, and dramaturgy that Pavlo Mazai always seeks.

Dramaturgy and authenticity are his favorite words, and this very liubist culminates in a kind of self-portraited infinity — Mazai as a demiurge, once again creating heaven and earth, channeling this entire mad Universe through himself.

In his works, he is always alone, surrounded, in the epicenter of the elements. He is both egg and grain, fire and water, root and plowed soil, and a scythe striking stone.

It takes not only an insatiable artistic thirst but a certain creative audacity to close this eternal cycle of creation upon oneself.

And thirst is something Pavlo has plenty of. He still has no idea what “creative crisis” means — exhaustion and burnout, the usual woes of an artist’s unique life, somehow pass him by. Or maybe it’s he who bypasses them.

Moreover, Mazai says that right now he feels “a very powerful surge of creativity. I’ve never experienced such a strong creative rise as during the war.”

Life, despite everything, inspires him every day. He’s always in motion, always searching, always working — and always outside the city. Because in the city, there are walls. And walls don’t inspire. In the city, he prints his works and holds exhibitions.

Mazai works in series — some are born from things that suddenly catch his eye and instantly spark a concept, a theme, an idea. Others take longer to unfold, until all the pieces fall into place. Meticulousness and spontaneity are his signature.

In fact, Pavlo values photography because “it is silent,” because “it needs no words. It speaks differently and reaches everyone in their own way.”

This exhibition is a kind of extract from various cycles: Myron’s Land, The House Where I Am Not, Ovum, Metrica.

The most important. The most essential. The most sincere. The most authentic.

Liubist.

Yulia Piatetska

Exhibition curator: Alina Ocheretiana

June 20, 5:00 PM — Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art

Lutsk, 1 Ivana Korsaka Street



Admission is free. You are warmly invited.

An artistic soirée with Lyudmyla Davydenko will take place on June 15 at 5:00 PM

We invite you to a special event on June 15 at 5:00 PM — an artistic soirée with ceramist and artist Liudmyla Davydenko, held as part of the exhibition “Cycle”.

This will be a moment of genuine presence and openness. The artist will share more about the works included in the exhibition, offer her personal insights, and unveil familiar images in a new light. In a relaxed atmosphere, there will be reflections, memories, answers to questions — everything that allows you to experience art not only with your eyes, but also with your soul.

This event will serve as the final highlight of the exhibition, which has been on display at the Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art for the past two months.

Admission is free. You are warmly welcome!

Location:

Lutsk, 1 Ivana Korsaka St.

Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art

📞 066 142 51 18

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