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Nina and Serhiy Reznichenko exhibition. March, 5 – 31, 2024

In March, the Ukrainian Cultural Center (Centre culturel de l`Ambassade d`Ukraine, Paris) and the Green Sofa gallery will simultaneously host exhibitions of paintings and drawings by the Nina and Serhiy …

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“Dark”  Petro Smetana 6.02. – 3.03.2024 “Dark” Petro Smetana 6.02. – 3.03.2024

This painting exhibition is a continuation of the series of works from the present period of the artist Petro Smetana. In this series he explores dark as a color of …

LAYERING LAYERING

I do it because…
Something is wrong…
I feel it…
I don’t want to lose it…
 
Under the guidance of the head of the department and professor Tamila Pechenyuk, masters of the department of …

Christmas exhibition. 12.12.2023 – 14.01.2024 Christmas exhibition. 12.12.2023 – 14.01.2024

Traditionally, a Christmas exhibition takes place in the Green Sofa Gallery every year. For 17 years in a row, Ukrainian artists have been creating a special mood in these dark, …

MINI MONUMENTS, Anna Atoyan, November 21 – December 10, 2023 MINI MONUMENTS, Anna Atoyan, November 21 – December 10, 2023

“The exhibition of seven compositions (3d objects, wood, levkas, painting), which are very personal as opposed to public monuments (lat.monumentum – “memory, monument”) – this is the way how the …

Beata Korn Beata Korn

was born in 1980 in Uzhhorod.
Education:
1995-2001 Uzhgorod College of Arts.
2001-2003 Lviv National Academy of Arts (Department of Ceramics).
Lives and works in Uzhhorod.
2003-2011 teaches at the Uzhgorod College of Arts.
Exhibitions
2005 “Glass …

BO. Beata Korn and Olha Pylnyk exhibition. 24.10-17.11. 2023 BO. Beata Korn and Olha Pylnyk exhibition. 24.10-17.11. 2023

Two artists, Beata Korn and Olha Pylnyk, who are working with ceramics in the art, will present their solo exhibition “BO” (the abbreviation consists of the first letters of both …

Long shadows of the short Summer. Olha Kvasha painting. 26.09 – 22.10.2023 Long shadows of the short Summer. Olha Kvasha painting. 26.09 – 22.10.2023

Olha Kvasha is artist, illustrator, teacher, and curator of the art club and school gallery “Vilni” at the The school of free and caring. During the exhibition Olha tells her …

Sophia Suliy. EX-VOTO project. 29.08 – 24.09.2023 Sophia Suliy. EX-VOTO project. 29.08 – 24.09.2023

 On August 29, on the Day of Remembrance of Ukraine’s Defenders, Sofia Suliy will open her interactive charitable project at the Green Sofa Gallery.
 EX VOTO, or votive objects. These are …

Mira Bachkur. Gethsemane. August 1-27, 2023 Mira Bachkur. Gethsemane. August 1-27, 2023

Why does it happen? The question sounss throughout the entire history of humanity and continues to do so until now. The expanse of the universe was void of people, and …

Yevhen Hryhoriev. Stones in pockets. 4 – 30.07.2023 Yevhen Hryhoriev. Stones in pockets. 4 – 30.07.2023

Simple stone has a musical ear,
 a stone heart is indifferent,
it does not cry, does not salivate,
and loves no one,
with such a heart it is convenient to throw …

Nadia Didyk “Reflections”. June 6 – July 2, 2023 Nadia Didyk “Reflections”. June 6 – July 2, 2023

Reflections are the process of deep self-discovery. My creative formulas are nourished by emotions and associations. Whatever I pictured – form or motif, is a thought process, an evolution of …

Yuriy Koval “Project in process”. 9.05.23 Yuriy Koval “Project in process”. 9.05.23

In the last year an opinion about life experience appears quite often. This experience that has been gotten at various levels, seems to be sometimes located almost at the depth …

Inna Shynkarenko.  “Dreams of Peaceful People” photo project. 11.04 – 7.05.23 Inna Shynkarenko. “Dreams of Peaceful People” photo project. 11.04 – 7.05.23

The photo project “Dreams of Peaceful People” presents portraits of Ukrainians and their dreams.
Inna Shynkarenko started shooting for this project before the full-scale war started by Russia against Ukraine. So …

Anatoliy Furlet “The day that flies over us.” Painting. March 14 – April 9, 2023. Anatoliy Furlet “The day that flies over us.” Painting. March 14 – April 9, 2023.

“Ukraine is a miracle for me. There is nothing such beautiful as it in the world: fertile land, amazing people, customs, traditions, folklore, folk art, ancient mounds with their inexhaustible …

Serhiy Dekaliuk “Almost spring”. 14 February – 12 March, 2023 Serhiy Dekaliuk “Almost spring”. 14 February – 12 March, 2023

At the exhibition of the artist from Zbarazh, there will be a premiere of paintings created during this year.
As Serhii says: “Every time I worked, I assured myself that people …

Calendar. Exhibition by Daria Zawyalova and Olena Zotova. 17.01.- 12.02.2023 Calendar. Exhibition by Daria Zawyalova and Olena Zotova. 17.01.- 12.02.2023

Сalendar is the rhythm of time, a reliable keeper of memories about basics of every culture and a storykeeper of every human. Birthdates, death dates, celebrations and chores. Rhythmic space …

(Українська) Друга спроба: IV едиція (Українська) Друга спроба: IV едиція

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Annual Christmas exhibition. 13, December – 15, January, 2023 Annual Christmas exhibition. 13, December – 15, January, 2023

We are incredibly happy to invite you to the annual traditional Christmas exhibition.
It is the sixteenth time in a row that the exhibition will be held.
This exhibition has everything. Painting, …

Ivan Protsiv. “Road to Home”. 22.11 – 11.12.2022 Ivan Protsiv. “Road to Home”. 22.11 – 11.12.2022

During the previous 20 years, the Lviv artist, originally came from the village with the beautiful name of Knyazholuka (Prince meadow) in the Carpathians, has collected more than two decades …

(Українська) Глиною про людину (Українська) Глиною про людину

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Still a Human. Ceramic sculpture of Hanna Drul. 25.10 – 20.11.22. Still a Human. Ceramic sculpture of Hanna Drul. 25.10 – 20.11.22.

One of the best artists that is working with the most ancient and eternally relevant ceramic material in Lviv – Hanna Drul.
The artist will present her personal exhibition in the …

Petro Smetana. Venecian Collection 2022. 18-23.10.22 Petro Smetana. Venecian Collection 2022. 18-23.10.22

Currently, the main artistic event in the world – the 59th Biennale of Contemporary Art – is taking place in Venice. Attending the event is a mandatory program for everyone …

GRAFFITI. Exhibition of Natalia Korf-Ivanyuk. From September 20 to October 16, 2022. GRAFFITI. Exhibition of Natalia Korf-Ivanyuk. From September 20 to October 16, 2022.

Graffiti is sincerity, eroticism, provocation at the fracture of generations, a connection between the present and the past times.
Today the primordial times seem like a distant past to us. At …

ABOUT DIFFERENT Oleksandra Bilobran exhibition. 23.08.- 18.09. 2022 ABOUT DIFFERENT Oleksandra Bilobran exhibition. 23.08.- 18.09. 2022

Lvivian Oleksandra Bilobran will present new works in the gallery and this time there will be no concept that unites them, just her usual fields and seas, flowers and forests, …

UKRAINE (1) : VASYLENKO, ENTRE GUERRE ET PEINTURE UKRAINE (1) : VASYLENKO, ENTRE GUERRE ET PEINTURE

Publié par Réginald Gaillard | 22 Juil, 2022

REPORTAGE – Dans une ville encore relativement épargnée par la guerre, à Lviv, le peintre Oleksandr Vasylenko bâtit une œuvre qui dit la résistance d’un peuple …

Andrew Chizhov. Home. July, 26 – August, 21, 2022 Andrew Chizhov. Home. July, 26 – August, 21, 2022

Andrew Chizhov is an artist who was born and raised in Sevastopol. After the occupation of Crimea peninsula, the “question of home” became difficult and painful for him. These feelings are …

Own Post Stamps dedicated to Venetian Biennale project

July, 1, 2022 has happened the stamp repayment, which was dedicated to “Resurrection” exhibition by Petro Smetana. He is the first artist from Lviv, who has his own …

Oleksandr Vasylenko “2022 Spring”. 28/06/ – 25/07/2022 Oleksandr Vasylenko “2022 Spring”. 28/06/ – 25/07/2022

Oleksandr Vasylenko from Dnipro is presenting artistic images of landscapes in Ukraine during the peacetime and war.
The monumental landscapes of the Carpathian Mountains and the urban landscapes of the Dnipro …

Chaos and Aesthetics. Ihor Kolisnyk. 31.05 – 26.06.2022 Chaos and Aesthetics. Ihor Kolisnyk. 31.05 – 26.06.2022

Since the beginning of the war, a lot of artists have reflected through the process of creating art. Despite the intolerance of the situation that is the reason for creativity, …

Lines, 3-29.05.22. Iryna Dzyndra paintings exhibition Lines, 3-29.05.22. Iryna Dzyndra paintings exhibition

Line – dash, stripe, border, length, geometric object by definition. The line outlines the limit, indicates the direction, and determines the order. Horizon lines, borders of countries, borders of personal …

Lesia Babliak “Yellow-blue album”. April, 29, 2002 Lesia Babliak “Yellow-blue album”. April, 29, 2002

The exhibition of sketches which were made during the war.
The war has just begun. At first, sounds of explosions somewhere far away scared me. I was counting them. Then I …

Ivan Vynarchyk. “Remision”. February, 8 – March, 6, 2022. Ivan Vynarchyk. “Remision”. February, 8 – March, 6, 2022.

The purpose of “Remission” is to transform the audience’s projection of violence in tragic historical periods by rethinking the experience.
After a while, any social phenomenon acquires a symbolic meaning: reality …

Veronika Cherednychenko. INSECTS. January, 11 – Febuary, 6, 2022 Veronika Cherednychenko. INSECTS. January, 11 – Febuary, 6, 2022

For fist time in Ukraine solo exhibition of young fantastic artist, born in Kherson, but lvivian now – Veronika Cherednychenko.
Veronika presents sketches and drawings of insects made for the new …

Annual Christmas exhibition in Green Sofa gallery. December 14, 2021 – January 9, 2022 Annual Christmas exhibition in Green Sofa gallery. December 14, 2021 – January 9, 2022

For 15 years of existence of the annual Christmas exhibition more than 130 artists from all over Ukraine and from abroad participated in it. Although mostly artists from Lviv. In …

Vasyl Bodnarchuk “Reprises”. 23.11.- 12.12.2021 Vasyl Bodnarchuk “Reprises”. 23.11.- 12.12.2021

Vasyl Bodnarchuk, artist-ceramist, presented his first solo exhibition in 1998.
Although his professional activities have a lot longer history. 20-25 years ago Vasyl discovered the creative form that spoke to his …

LANGUAGE OF HANDS. Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Lyudmyla Davydenko. 26.10 – 21.11. 2021 LANGUAGE OF HANDS. Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Lyudmyla Davydenko. 26.10 – 21.11. 2021

Even at the previous exhibition in the “Green Sofa” art gallery – “Head” (2017), Lyudmyla Davydenko began to depict hands. Sometimes as support and resistance for the human head, hands …

Ihor Teplyy. MATRIX. Painting exhibition. 28.09 – 24.10. 2021 Ihor Teplyy. MATRIX. Painting exhibition. 28.09 – 24.10. 2021

Life is beautiful when it is colorful.
There are many colors in the world. They are no less than people. Similar, tinted and contrastingly different – contrasting.
Ihor Teplyy created a series …

Unframed meeting. Painting by Wictoria Dubovyk. 31/08 – 26/09/ 2021 Unframed meeting. Painting by Wictoria Dubovyk. 31/08 – 26/09/ 2021

The exhibition “Unframed Meeting” is the result of reflections on the quarantine and therefore framed period of society’s limitations in various spheres of life.
It is the result of my …

Denys Struk. LUXURY ITEMS. Painting exhibition. 3 – 29/08/2021 Denys Struk. LUXURY ITEMS. Painting exhibition. 3 – 29/08/2021

We define values, values define us. What we consider valuable is worthless without us. The things that inspire us are no longer just things. The most valuable is worth nothing. …

Chaos and structures. Kateryna Haneychuk. 6.07. – 1.08.2021 Chaos and structures. Kateryna Haneychuk. 6.07. – 1.08.2021

For the second time in the gallery with a personal exhibition of contemporary textile art the artist from Lutsk – Kateryna Haneychuk.
She is known throughout the country for her woodblock …

MINI MONUMENTS Anna Atoyan, June 8 – July 4, 2021 MINI MONUMENTS Anna Atoyan, June 8 – July 4, 2021

The exhibition of seven compositions (3d objects, wood, levkas, painting), which are very personal as opposed to public monuments (lat.monumentum – “memory, monument”).
MINI MONUMENT’S by Anna Atoyan are [not] large …

SKYLINE.  Exhibition of paintings by Lilia Studnytska May 11 – June 6, 2021. SKYLINE. Exhibition of paintings by Lilia Studnytska May 11 – June 6, 2021.

Looking into the distance, I admire fleeting moments, so I want to fill my chest with them and get some time to live for myself, looking into the future… A …

Iryna Fartukh “Native Lviv”. March 23 – May, 9, 2021 Iryna Fartukh “Native Lviv”. March 23 – May, 9, 2021

At a personal exhibition Iryna Fartukh from Lviv will show her picturesque images of the city in which she was born.
Real architectural situations of Lviv, its ancient historical part and …

HONEY! Olena Zherebetska art project. 23/02 – 21/03/2021 HONEY! Olena Zherebetska art project. 23/02 – 21/03/2021

The exhibition of artist, designer and teacher Olena Zherebetska will present a crossover of ecology, painting and fashion in the art space of the “Green Sofa” gallery.
Honey is a product …

Visible / Invisible. 26.01 – 21.02.2021 Visible / Invisible. 26.01 – 21.02.2021

A series of sign-symbolic ornamental linocuts by Dzvinka Zagaiska.
The creation of the project Visible / Invisible began with the beginning of the quarantine. Probably, it was not accidental. Linocut – …

(Українська) Їм це – не байдуже (Українська) Їм це – не байдуже

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(Українська) Всесвіт «Вишивальників» (Українська) Всесвіт «Вишивальників»

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(Українська) Бодіпозитив (Українська) Бодіпозитив

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“Everlasting nature”. Inna Shynkarenko, Kostya Smolyaninov – photography. Yulia Dolynska – painting. Nicolas Stupinsky – drawing. 20.10-15.11.2020 “Everlasting nature”. Inna Shynkarenko, Kostya Smolyaninov – photography. Yulia Dolynska – painting. Nicolas Stupinsky – drawing. 20.10-15.11.2020

As long as this world exists and art exists, the theme and the main character of art will be a man.
In contrast to objects that are “Still life” (dead nature) …

Lviv Art Week – 2020 Lviv Art Week – 2020

Lviv Art Week took place on October 8-11 in the creative space of FESTrepublic – an event that became the first brick in the development of a new ambitious and …

Serhiy Savchenko and Kamila Bednarska. ” However, we are left with love as a compensation.” September 25 – October 18, 2020. Serhiy Savchenko and Kamila Bednarska. ” However, we are left with love as a compensation.” September 25 – October 18, 2020.

 “Scientific materialism and progress have undermined the foundations of all traditional religions, and it is clear that no society can exist without religion. All hopes for the synthesis of science …

Oleg Denysenko “Wings” Oleg Denysenko “Wings”

The truth is unattainable. But the very attempt to touch it gives meaning to life, giving the wings for mental flights.
There is a legend that in ancient times, when …

IlonaDesign  «To Be & To See». 28.07 – 23.08.2020 IlonaDesign «To Be & To See». 28.07 – 23.08.2020

ToBe & ToSee is a page of ten years of research in the field of fine arts, self-awareness and human relations. IlonaDesign works in the genre of abstraction. And in …

Announcement of exhibitions Announcement of exhibitions

2024
April 2-28 – Ihor Bereza. Ceramic sculpture
April 30- May 26 – Olesya Kaznokh. Painting
May 28 – June 23 – Olena Vasylevich. Jewellery
June 25-July 21 – Zakentiy Horobyov. Painting
July 23 – …

“Another Lviv”. Collective photo exhibition. Alla Simutina, Dina Turuk and Leonid Simutin. July, 14 – 26, 2020 “Another Lviv”. Collective photo exhibition. Alla Simutina, Dina Turuk and Leonid Simutin. July, 14 – 26, 2020

It is believed that the surrounding reality is not objective at all. After all, 70-90% of it is an image formed subjectively in our head.
Photography is a reflection of a …

TRANSIT. Painting by Ihor Romanko. June 2 – 28, 2020 TRANSIT. Painting by Ihor Romanko. June 2 – 28, 2020

When you are firmly on the path you have begun to follow, I think you are happy.
 Hregoriy Skovoroda.
 
Ihor Romanko’s work is a kind of fixation of the surrounding world in …

MARIA`S DREAM. Uliana Nyshchuk. 5 – 31, May, 2020 MARIA`S DREAM. Uliana Nyshchuk. 5 – 31, May, 2020

Lviv artist Ulyana Nyshchuk explores the extremely typical and archetypical images of our culture. Folklore and iconography. Through the prism of her education and subtle senses and great talent Ulyana …

Uliana Nyshchuk Uliana Nyshchuk

Born: 06.06.1984.
Education: Lviv National Academy of Arts (2004-10).
Activities: easel, sacral painting, graphics.
Working with: tempera, acrylic, photography, levkas (icon painting), oil painting, collage.
Areas of interest: Ethnocultural Studies, Philosophy of Arts.
Artistic priorities: …

Maya`s Garden.  Jewelry exhibition by Maya Kotelnytska. 10.03 – 05.04. 2020 Maya`s Garden. Jewelry exhibition by Maya Kotelnytska. 10.03 – 05.04. 2020

For over ten years the Lviv artist and the jeweler Maya Kotelnitskaya has been making jewelry in her own hands and in her own workshop. During this time, her works …

(Українська) Ода незбагненому малярству (Українська) Ода незбагненому малярству

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THE TAPE. Project by Oleh Davydenko. 02/11 – 03/8/2020 THE TAPE. Project by Oleh Davydenko. 02/11 – 03/8/2020

There are two types of artists.
Some artists who plant one tree and look after it, growing, hoping for the great and beautiful fruits of that tree of their creativity.
Another type …

(Українська) Малює настрій, емоцію, момент (Українська) Малює настрій, емоцію, момент

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Vladyslav Shereshevskyi. “Places”. January, 14 – February, 9, 2020 Vladyslav Shereshevskyi. “Places”. January, 14 – February, 9, 2020

Vladyslav Shereshevskyy is perhaps the most star and famous artist among those who have ever been exhibited in the “Green Sofa” Gallery.
Vladyslav has earned undeniable respect and recognition in the …

(Українська) П’ятдесят на п’ятдесятьох (Українська) П’ятдесят на п’ятдесятьох

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Annual Christmas exhibition in Green Sofa gallery. December 10, 2019 – January 12, 2020 Annual Christmas exhibition in Green Sofa gallery. December 10, 2019 – January 12, 2020

For 13 years of existence of the annual Christmas exhibition 130 artists from all over Ukraine and from abroad participated in it. Although mostly artists from Lviv. In 2007 there …

The City and  the Garden. Exhibition of graphics and textiles by Daria Zawyalowa. November 19 – December 8, 2019. The City and the Garden. Exhibition of graphics and textiles by Daria Zawyalowa. November 19 – December 8, 2019.

Lviv citizen Daria Zawyalowa loves her city. Only the house “Under the Eagles” on Chuprynka Street inspired her to create a series of six works. In Dariya’s graphics the city …

Roman Romanyshyn “Fairy tails for adults”. 22.10 – 17.11.2019. Exhibition of 24 etchings from “Alice in Wonderland” and “Throught the Looking-Glass” series Roman Romanyshyn “Fairy tails for adults”. 22.10 – 17.11.2019. Exhibition of 24 etchings from “Alice in Wonderland” and “Throught the Looking-Glass” series

The brilliant work of Lewis Carroll about the girl Alice is an inexhaustible source for visual illusions of artists.
Full of unusual and rich detail, it became the perfect inspiration for …

Yaryna Movchan “Immersion”. 27.08 – 22.09. 2019 Yaryna Movchan “Immersion”. 27.08 – 22.09. 2019

Intuitive artist Yaryna Movchan draws timeless and extra-portraiture images of a person. Placed in a circle – the symbolic geometric figure of the soul and the auras, the full faces, …

Interview with artist Petro Smetana. 2018 Interview with artist Petro Smetana. 2018

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Ulia Lekhiv “Border”. Solo exhibition. 30/06 – 25/07/2019 Ulia Lekhiv “Border”. Solo exhibition. 30/06 – 25/07/2019

– Where is the boundary between reality and fiction? Where does the tradition end and fantasy begins? Where is the true level of art, and not a boring picture of …

The ephemeral landscape. Painting exhibition of Petro Smetana. July 2 – 28, 2019 The ephemeral landscape. Painting exhibition of Petro Smetana. July 2 – 28, 2019

Lviv artist Petro Smetana made his first personal exhibition in 2010 in the Green Sofa Art Gallery. Due to various influences and internal searches Smetana evolved into a bright creative …