Artist talks, Lectures and Discussions

Artist Talk with Vladislav Plisetskiy

On Wednesday, 2 July at 18:30, we invite you to an Artist talk with Vladislav Plisetskiy, a nominee for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025.
The event will take place on the 2nd floor, at the reception of the PinchukArtCentre.Participation is free of charge, with prior registration: https://forms.gle/haoeh1H5xLawRCmr8
During the talk, Nikita Kadan will speak with Vladislav Plisetskiy about his artistic language, his engagement with queer and trash art, the rethinking of tragic experiences, and the film What You Will Do When the War Continues?, presented as part of the exhibition.
What You Will Do When the War Continues? is the second part of a trilogy that explores possible actions in the face of war — whether it breaks out, continues, or ends. The film reveals a deep interconnection between the personal and the political. The eccentric performances, art, and parties through which Plisetskiy freely expresses himself are gradually overtaken by the chaos of war and the processes of mobilisation in both society and his personal environment. Various destinies and dimensions of contemporary reality intersect: the tragic and the comic, the everyday and the carnivalesque.
Vladislav Plisetskiy is a performance artist and director, nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025. His artistic practice is closely linked to club culture, LGBT+ themes, and the war.
Nikita Kadan is a Ukrainian artist working in painting, graphics, and installation. He is a member of the R.E.P. art group and a co-founder of the curatorial and activist collective Hudrada. He was awarded the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2011 and the Future Generation Art Prize in 2014.

Lecture by Teta Tsybulnyk Disappeared Landscape: Art as a Language of the Absent

On Thursday, 3 July at 18:30, we invite you to a lecture by Tetya Tsybulnyk titled Disappeared Landscape: Art as a Language of the Absent, as part of the public programme for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 exhibition of shortlisted artists.
The event will take place on the 4th floor of the PinchukArtCentre, in the space featuring the work of Andrii Rachynskyi.Participation is free with prior registration: https://forms.gle/5gEqnhnyFuhNqNXV6 
Teta Tsybulnyk’s lecture resonates thematically with the works of the shortlisted artists, in which the exploration of memory, loss, and landscape plays a leading role. These motifs can be traced in the works of Andrii Rachynskyi, the Variable Name / Назва змінна collective, Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh), Kateryna Aliinyk, Yuri Yefanov and Mykhailo Alekseenko.
During the lecture, we will discuss:● How do we remember a place, and how does a place remember us?● What is the unconscious of the landscape?● What are the similarities between art and psychoanalysis?● How does art help to recall the forgotten, the displaced, and the dissociated?
Teta Tsybulnyk is a psychoanalyst and artist. She is a co-founder of the art group ruїns collective, in which she has created a series of videos about human and non-human perspectives on the landscape.

Artist Talk with Yuri Yefanov

On Wednesday, 9 July at 18:30, we invite you to an Artist Talk with PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 nominee Yuri Yefanov.
The event will take place on the 2nd floor, near the PinchukArtCentre reception, in the format of an online artist talk.Participation is free of charge, with prior registration: https://forms.gle/R5w9o4CSSjac6mcc7
Oksana Chornobrova will speak with Yuri Yefanov about his artistic practice and research into the interaction between everyday life and politics, as well as about the work I Watched the Sinusoidal Motion of Blue Electronic Waves until I Sensed Their Smell, which is on view as part of the exhibition.
I Watched the Sinusoidal Motion of Blue Electronic Waves until I Sensed Their Smell is a public space project that evokes memories of inaccessible places in Ukraine and offers alternative scenarios for the present and future. The work recreates a digital simulation of an environment in real time, based on the artist’s memories of his native Gurzuf in Crimea. Anticipating the erasure of memories tied to inaccessible Ukrainian locations, Yefanov transfers them into his own model of public space.
Yuri Yefanov is an artist and filmmaker who uses computer graphics and game simulations to create digital, alternative dimensions of reality. His projects have been screened at numerous film festivals and art venues across Europe and North America, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vilnius International Film Festival, Media Art Festival Arnhem, as well as in Warsaw, Vienna, Athens, and other cities.
Moderator: Oksana Chornobrova is the assistant curator of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 exhibition and assistant curator at the PinchukArtCentre.