PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 Exhibition
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Opening February 28, 2025
On February 28, the PinchukArtCentre will present the 8th exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. The participants will create new works or showcase their recent projects, weaving together personal stories, reflections on collective memory and identity. The exhibition captures the clash of contrasts in Ukrainian society's experience, where tragedy and loss intertwine with resilience and hope for the future.
The shortlist of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 includes: Mykhailo Alekseenko (34, Kyiv), Kateryna Aliinyk (25, Kyiv/Luhansk), Yuriy Bolsa (27, Chervonohrad), Vasyl Dmytryk (32, Ivano-Frankivsk/Odesa), Maksym Khodak (23, Vienna/Kyiv/Bila Tserkva), Yevhen Korshunov (35, Brovary/Kyiv), Kateryna Lysovenko (34, Kyiv/Vienna), Krystyna Melnyk (30, Kyiv/Melitopol), Daria Molokoiedova (22, Kramatorsk/Kyiv), Vladislav Plisetskiy (25, Kyiv), Andrii Rachynskyi (34, Kharkiv), Anton Saenko (34, Sumy/Kyiv), Anton Shebetko (34, Kyiv/Amsterdam), Zhenia Stepanenko (28, Kyiv/Berlin), Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh) (29, Mariupol), Illia Todurkin (23, Mariupol/Kyiv), Tamara Turliun (29, Dnipro/Kyiv), Lesia Vasylchenko (34, Kyiv/Oslo), Yuri Yefanov (34, Gurzuf) and collective Variable Name / Назва змінна (Valerie Karpan (Kyiv) and Maryna Marynychenko (Kyiv/Zaporizhzhia)).
This year, a special recognition outside the competition will honour the memory of Veronika Kozhushko — an artist from Kharkiv who applied for the PinchukArtCentre Prize but tragically died on August 30 as a result of a Russian missile strike on the city's civilian infrastructure.
The show of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 curated by Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, curator of the PinchukArtCentre. Assistant curators: Oksana Chornobrova, Kateryna Kostenko.
The shortlisted artists will be invited to create works for the exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in 2025. The winners of the Prize will be announced at the award ceremony in the second quarter of 2025. The Main Prize of UAH 400 000 and two Special Prizes equal to UAH 100 000 each will be awarded by the international jury. The winners will also receive financial support for internships, further education, residences or new production. A Public Choice winner will be determined by votes of the visitors attending the exhibition of the shortlisted artists and will be awarded UAH 40 000.
The winner of the Main Prize will be automatically included in the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2026, an international art prize for young artists.
PinchukArtCentre
1/3-2 Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000