Artist talks, Lectures and Discussions

Artist Talk with Anton Saenko

On Wednesday, 25 June at 18:30, we invite you to an Artist talk with Anton Saenko, a nominee for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025.
The event will take place on the 2nd floor, in Anton Saenko’s exhibition space.Participation is free of charge, with prior registration: https://forms.gle/u2G54uQELoKLWdm97
During the talk, Natalia Matsenko will speak with Anton Saenko about his artistic practice, his work with various media, and previous art projects. The conversation will also explore the meanings behind the painting Mud Hut, featured in the exhibition.
In Mud Hut, which references the traditional Ukrainian rural dwelling, Anton Saenko explores the ‘principle of abstraction’: that every non-figurative image has a specific, material foundation. By juxtaposing abstraction and the concrete, and employing the colour white as a symbol of new beginnings, Saienko creates a nuanced space that invites contemplation and questioning.
Anton Saenko is an artist nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, working across multiple media including painting, installation, photography, performance, and land art. His solo exhibitions in Kyiv include Dirty at Dymchuk Gallery, Mirage at The Naked Room, and Dark Space at Closer. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Point of View at Galeria Labirynt (Lublin) and Into the Dark at 32 Vozdvizhenka Arts House (Kyiv).
Moderator: Natalia Matsenko is an art historian, independent curator, art critic, and lecturer. She has curated exhibitions and residencies in Ukraine, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Mexico. Since 2013, she has collaborated as a guest curator with the international art residency BIRUCHIY Contemporary Art Project, and since 2018 — with the land art symposium Mohrytsia. Borderland Space. Since 2022, she has been implementing projects in cooperation with the European External Action Service (Brussels). In 2023–2024, she was a guest curator at the Kunstmuseum Bochum (Germany), and most recently participated in a curatorial residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

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.