The exhibition seeks to visualize the experiences of artists who came face to face with the war. Wartime is definitely about harshness, hatred and fear, but it is also about boundless courage, empathy and a heightened sense of love, which for many became a ’bomb shelter’. We might then ask: What paths lead to the artists personal shelter?

The works explore these topics in several dimensions, by creating a dialouge between the new surrounding reality in Ukraine and generated experiences from this reality. The viewer is immersed in the abstract history of Ukraine to enable experiencing this moment of before and after. Encouraging the questions: What will be left to restore and recreate when the war is over? How to find peace during these difficult times and keep hope alive for the future?

Exhibiting artists include:

• Art Group SVITER
• Elena Subach
• Kinder Album
• Maksym Finogeiev
• Mikhaylo Barabash
• Sergiy Petlyuk
• Yaroslav Kostenko
• Yulia Sapiga — Curator