Artist talk with Krystyna Melnyk

On Thursday, March 27, at 18:30, we invite you to the Artist talk with the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 nominee Krystyna Melnyk.
During the meeting, Tatiana Kochubinska will talk with Krystyna Melnyk about her artistic practice and her work Impossibility of a Pure Gaze, which is presented at the exhibition.
The event will take place on the 2nd floor near the reception of the PinchukArtCentre.
Participation is free by prior registration: https://forms.gle/PevoQ35sp9uzg8cg8
In the triptych Impossibility of a Pure Gaze, Krystyna Melnyk reflects on the fact that a pure look at the male body is no longer possible. The tender, intact flesh of a young man is adjacent to wounds that remind us of the intrusion of political and historical contexts into sensual experience. But it is not about physical bodily reality, but about a “deformed” vision. Thus, in the central work of the triptych, the artist attempts to heal the damaged gaze and free a person from the traumas caused by history.
Krystyna Melnyk is an artist nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025. In her practice, Melnyk reveals the beauty of the wounded and vulnerable body, using techniques inherent in sacred painting. The artist explores the influence of history and memory on corporeality and its perception.
Moderator: Tatiana Kochubinska is an art historian, independent curator, author, and lecturer. In 2022, she joined the curatorial team of antiwarcoalition.art. In 2023 she co-curated the exhibition Kaleidoscope of Stories. Ukrainian Art 1912-2023 (Albertinum Museum, Art Collections Dresden, Germany; Museum De Fundatie, Netherlands), and in 2024 she co-curated the exhibitions Maybe We Can Have Fun Together by Ivan Svitlychnyi (Arsenal Gallery, Poland), Landscapes of an Ongoing Past (Urbane Künste Ruhr, Germany), and Sense of Security (YermilovCenter, Ukraine).

25.03.2025