20/03/2026
Radvila Palace Museum of Art , Vilnius, Lithuania
with Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography , the exhibition
« Ukrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography »
will open at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on 23 April 2026.
The exhibition presents a unique artistic community encompassing four generations of Ukrainian artists, from the 1960s to the present day. Throughout the era of Soviet censorship, the turbulent years of Ukraine’s independence, successive revolutions, and the onset of Russian military aggression, Kharkiv photographers have consistently expanded the boundaries of the photographic medium, transforming it into a powerful instrument of aesthetic expression and social critique.
The exhibition brings together works by thirty-three artists, presented chronologically to highlight the continuity of the school’s methods and ideas. Shown in Lithuania for the first time, the exhibition traces the historical and artistic contexts in which the Kharkiv School developed, while also acknowledging longstanding creative connections with Lithuanian photography.
The exhibition opening will coincide with a two-day international academic symposium « Amateur Photo Clubs in the USSR and Satellite States in the 1950s-19805 », to be held on 24-25 April 2026.
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Curators: Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Boris and Vita Mikhailov, Darius Vaicekauskas, Olena Chervonik, Oleksandra Osadcha .vita.mikhailov
Symposium organisers: Olena Chervonik, Gintare Krasuckaité, Oleksandra Osadcha
📷 image Evgeniy Pavlov, “Alternative”, 1985