6–28 June
Gallery Svitlo, 19 Valova St., code 358

All Dogs — exhibition by Danylo Haliichuk

Danylo Haliichuk is an artist working at the Olia Stavnykovych Studio. This exhibition captures a distinct creative period in which the artist was deeply engaged in exploring the world of animals, producing thousands of images of different breeds.

Admission is free.
Opening hours: Tue–Sun 12:00–20:00

26 June, 19:00–19:40
UA Comix Store, 1 Stefanyk St.

Guided Tour: Life Is Short, Art Is Fast
Part of the exhibition Life Is Short, Art Is Fast (19 June–5 July)

The exhibition presents self-portraits created by different people during comics workshops led by Mykola Hlibovych. Each drawing is made as quickly as possible — within strict time limits — turning speed into both constraint and creative method.

Under such conditions, there is no time to imitate someone else’s style or to decide what is “right” or “wrong.” Instead, drawing becomes a direct form of expression: a language where a line or a stain is a way of communicating. Everyone already knows how to speak it.

Mykola Hlibovych is a comics artist, comics educator and visual thinking lecturer, photographer, and curator of creative workshops.

Admission is free.

20 June–5 July
Olia Stavnykovych Studio, 19 Dudaieva St. (entrance from V. Stefanyk St.)

Art Brut

An exhibition of works by artists who operate outside academic standards, drawing on personal imagination and emotional experience. Since 2021, Nikoľ Liapustina, Mariia Humenna, Vitalik Vey, Mykhailo Vatamaniuk, Mariia Hazda, Danylo Haliichuk, Nestor Shmyhelskyi, Anton Kurenkov, Yulia Kuryliak, Sofia Zhuk, Evelina Antoniuk, and Andrii Lesiuk have been working at the Olia Stavnykovych Studio. Their works form unique visual worlds and an open, direct dialogue with the viewer.

Admission is free.
Opening hours: Wed–Sat 15:00–19:00

26 June, 19:30–20:30
Guided tour of the exhibition

27 June, 15:00–16:30
Book presentation: Art Brut

The publication combines an art album and a documentary study. It introduces readers to a community of neurodivergent artists in Ukraine, including those based in Lviv. The book features reproductions of artworks, personal stories of artists, and thematic essays that explore the phenomenon of art brut in a contemporary context.

21 June–15 July
Opening: 17:00
Centre for Urban Mobility, 24 S. Bandery St. (entrance from Starosolskykh St.)

Lines of the Horizon — exhibition by Sofiia Kozlova

Working with camouflage netting materials and drawing on her own volunteer experience, Sofiia Kozlova reflects on how war transforms nature, space, and our perception of what is visible. At the centre of the exhibition is camouflage as a way of engaging with the environment — the creation of a “fabricated nature,” new landscapes, and shifting horizons.

21 June–5 July
Opening: 18:00
Powder Tower, 4 Pidvalna St.

Inner Earth — exhibition by Olena Kainska

Admission to the opening is free; afterwards — ticketed entry according to the gallery’s policy.
Opening hours: Wed–Sun 12:00–20:00, Tue 12:00–18:00

20 June–15 July
A part of the exhibition is also presented at the Inclusive Space “Bereh”, 36 Maloholoskivska St.

Opening: 19:00
Admission free
Opening hours: daily 09:00–20:00

A series of paintings exploring the inner landscape of the human being. Here, trauma is not approached as an event from the past, but as a force that quietly distances us from our own centre — from the sense of home and belonging to ourselves.

The visual and textual elements form a kind of map of return, where the journey requires attentiveness to what has been repressed, left behind, or hidden from view. The exhibition invites viewers into a shared space of searching — not as observers of someone else’s story, but as people who may also be looking for their own “inner earth.”

Olena Kainska lives and works in Lviv. Her artistic practice focuses on trauma, post-traumatic recovery, and psycho-somatic healing.

Following the exhibition opening at the Powder Tower, a concert by Cells Interlinked will take place at 6:00 PM.

Cells Interlinked is a musical project by Lviv-based musicians Mariia and Albert Zakharov, who have worked across electronic, industrial, EDM, and indie rock genres for more than twenty years. Performing live with modern recreations of vintage synthesizers, the duo creates thoughtful electronic music that explores the connection between classic electronic traditions and contemporary ambient sound. Their work combines analogue synthesizers, field recordings, and improvisation, creating a space for attentive listening and contemplation.

For Cells Interlinked, music is a practice of transforming traumatic experience into a space for mindful engagement with everyday reality. Their music is not about war, yet it was born during wartime. It emerged from the understanding that even in the most difficult circumstances, people can find inner grounding through attentive observation and deep listening—to the movement of clouds, the sound of the wind, birdsong, or simply the presence of sound itself. This kind of attentiveness can become a natural path toward healing, helping us gradually transform pain into a deeper sense of life, stillness, and connection with the world around us.

During the concert, the duo will present music from their latest album, Cold Spring Notes—a collection of musical sketches inspired by inner calm, nature, and the human capacity to remain open and sensitive in times of profound social upheaval. Released by the Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams, the album serves as a diary of inner states, shaped through live improvisations recorded in natural environments during the fourth year of the war in Ukraine.

Admission is free.

22 June–15 July
Opening: 18:00
Lviv Municipal Art Center, 11 Stefanyk St., code 27

Photography exhibition
A Little Sadness and Warmth from the Cat — Yurko Kostyshyn

28 June, 19:30–21:00
Artist Talk with Yurko Vovkogon, Kateryna Mykhailitsyna, Bohdan Kordoba

“A Little Warmth and Sadness from the Cat” is an exhibition of works by soldier, writer, and photographer Yurko Kostyshyn, call sign “Kit Kharakternyk,” who was killed in December 2025. The exhibition reflects on how an artistic way of seeing the world helps preserve humanity and love even in the most intense frontline conditions. It speaks about creativity as a shield — one that protects against emotional hardening, preserves sensitivity, and offers strength to continue living, even when it hurts.

Admission is free.
Opening hours: daily 10:00–21:00

23 June, 18:00–19:30
Dzyga Gallery, 35 Virmenska St.

Workshop: Comics as a Way of Finding Meaning with Mykola Hlibovych

During this workshop, participants will explore how comics work as a medium, focusing on the interaction between visual and verbal language. Through a series of experiments with text and image, we will look at how meaning emerges at the intersection of opposites — where unexpected irony appears and hidden layers of sense come to light.

As Mykola Hlibovych — comics artist, comics educator and visual thinking lecturer, photographer, and curator of creative workshops — notes, the session invites participants to switch off the inner critic, dismantle rational filters, and meet their own authenticity through fast, uncompromising drawing.

Combining experience in visual design with a background in psychology, Mykola creates a space for direct expression and experimentation with form, language, and thought.

Registration required: https://forms.gle/Y9bmUt4dXDPRY3eL7

24 June–7 July
Opening: 18:00
Jam Factory Art Center, 124 B. Khmelnytskoho St.

An Eye on the Knee — exhibition by Dariia Kuzmych

An intricate choreography of two different bodily rhythms moves through the space. Acceptance and inner resistance shape a pattern formed by the body itself. A language sensitive to the painful ruptures of muscles and the fascia of time breaks apart and reassembles. Emerging from this movement of pain, forms become diagrams, technical drawings, and visual schemes.

The exhibition brings together works created over sixteen years following a severe accident the artist experienced in her youth. It can be read as a separation of the “I” from a part of the body — the knee — and its externalisation as a point and source of pain. The prosthetic and reconstructed knee becomes a distinct form of knowledge, allowing for an encounter with the experience of those holding the line of defence. Video, diagrams, drawings, and texts become testimonies to the unfolding of time through pain. The body is the only time that exists.

Dariia Kuzmych (b. 1991, Kyiv) lives and works in Kyiv. She studied painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2015) and completed her MA in Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK, 2021). Since 2025, she has been a doctoral researcher in artistic practice at HFBK Hamburg.

Through drawing, textiles, video, installation, text, and participatory practices, she explores temporality in relation to crisis-induced ruptures and the perception of time shaped by traumatic experience. She is currently working on an artistic research project on the temporality of war with Ukrainian defenders in medical contexts.

Admission to the opening is free; afterwards — ticketed entry according to the gallery’s policy.
Opening hours: Tue–Fri 12:00–20:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–20:00

24 June, 19:00
Jam Factory Art Center

Artist Talk: Lens from Within with Dariia Kuzmych

In this talk, the artist will focus on her ongoing project exploring the temporalities of Russia’s war against Ukraine, as they are revealed through lived experience and individual paths of recovery among Ukrainian defenders.

Through interviews and workshops with military personnel in hospital settings, Kuzmych develops a methodological framework that, like film under chemical development, allows experience to gradually emerge into visibility. This reflective, imaginative, and material process of transition — from silence to intention, from avoidance to active co-presence — remains inscribed in traces: lines, collages, and the courage to begin.

The methodological and ethical framework for the workshops was developed in collaboration with psychologist Nicoletto Yurets.

Admission is free.

25 June–30 July
MONO Cultural Space, 21 Rynok Square, intercom 2

Space of Memory — exhibition

27 June, 16:00–17:00
Visit to the space

At the core of the project is an interview with Viktoriia Amelina, recorded in spring 2023 for the performance With Fire and Rage, created as a reflection on Ukrainian artistic resistance and resilience. Developed for the Eurofestival in Liverpool, the performance went on to receive the highest honour at the British theatre award The Stage Awards in the same year.

In this space, visitors can listen to Amelina’s reflections on resilience, faith, and hope in moments when life as we know it is falling apart — on intention, action, and the quiet force of her voice, which speaks beyond words. Her words are accompanied by essays written by teenagers as part of the New York Literary Festival (NYLF), founded by Amelina to support the community of the town of New York in Donetsk region.

How do we continue this conversation today, through memory?

Admission is free.

25 June, 16:00–18:00
Centre for Urban Mobility, 24 S. Bandery St. (entrance from Starosolskykh St.)

Workshop: Weaving with Nataliia Zorenko

A macramé weaving workshop led by a craftswoman from Cherkasy who approaches textile practice as a tool for restoring inner resources.

“For me, weaving is a space of slowing down, concentration, and connection with oneself. I see great potential in textile art as a means of supporting psycho-emotional well-being, and I want to share this experience with others,” says Nataliia Zorenko.

Through hands-on practice, participants will be invited into a tactile process of attention and rhythm, where making becomes a form of grounding and care.

Registration required: https://forms.gle/8Z3RMATXDZqiuiXE8

25 June, 18:00–20:00
Lesia Ukrainka Theatre, 36 Horodotska St. (entrance from Zakhysnykiv Ukrainy St.)

The Traveller’s Playlist — theatre performance

Once in a very rare moment, a hero enters a theatre. Not the romantic hero, not the one from classical plays — but a flesh-and-blood person who knows the price of both flesh and blood. Someone who has seen everything (except the Vienna State Opera).

He is a Ukrainian soldier. His story takes us through some of the most painful and defining chapters of recent Ukrainian history: the Revolution of Dignity, the occupation of Crimea, and the defence of Mariupol. His experience is one of desperate struggle, fierce resistance, and captivity endured with dignity.

But this is not only a story about war. There is music (not opera), there are young actors, songs, and a journey. There is also pain. You might even cry — but this is theatre, and even heroes are allowed to cry here.

Directed and written by Anastasiia Kosodii
Set and costume design: Teresa Barabash
Songs by Yura Hurzhy and Hryhorii Semenchuk

Cast:
Woman who was lucky — Taisiia Malakhova
Man who wants to help — Rostyslav Kolachnyk
Man who knows everything — Mykhailo Ponzel
Woman on the edge — Anastasiia Perets
Woman in waiting — Tetiana Shelelio

The performance takes place at the small stage of Lesia Ukrainka Theatre (entrance from Zakhysnykiv Ukrainy St.).
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes (no interval).

Please note: the performance includes a scene in complete darkness, scenes depicting violence and brutality, a scene with a lit cigarette, and the use of artificial smoke. It also contains strong language and loud sounds. Audience discretion is advised.

Tickets.

26 June, 15:00–19:00
Apartment, 17 D. Dudaieva St., 3rd floor

Performance: Visiting Ira and Liera

atelienormalno invites audiences into an intimate, participatory performance hosted in a private apartment in Lviv.

Ira Holoborodko, an artist with Down syndrome, has long dreamed of visiting Lviv. On 26 June, together with artist Liera Tarasenko, this long-awaited encounter finally takes place — and the audience is invited to join them in the process.

Text from the artists:

This project is rooted in a collaboration between Ira and Liera, developed within atelienormalno, where two different worlds and two distinct artistic approaches meet. Liera works through painting, which Ira responds to by adding meaning and graphic interventions, expanding the work with narrative direction and clarity.

The idea is to turn the living space into a temporary studio for one week, in the same place where the artists are staying in Lviv. The audience enters not a formal venue, but a studio-home — a place where everyday life and artistic production coexist. Food is being prepared, a cat might jump onto a drawing and shift everything — yet this is still preferable to not meeting or not creating at all.

During the event, this method is enacted in real time: Ira Holoborodko will respond directly to Liera Tarasenko’s painting, as if working at home.

atelienormalno has existed for eight years. The studio brings together artists with and without Down syndrome, who act as curators, collaborators, and sometimes friends to one another. Roles shift depending on the needs of each project. The collective has had a particularly active year of exhibitions and events, including participation in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the most recent Venice Biennale. Today, the group consists of seven members and continues to work steadily, although some artists are currently based abroad.

Admission is free.

27 June, 19:30–20:30
Courtyard of the Town Hall, 21 Rynok Square

The Lift Director — theatre performance

A tragicomedy based on real life unfolding inside the UNBROKEN rehabilitation centre. Created with the participation of veterans and staff, the performance reflects the everyday rhythms of a place where people recover, work, and slowly rebuild their lives — together.

All chance and intentional encounters take place in an elevator. It moves between floors alongside the Director, who has turned this space into a private business project and charges a fee for every ride. There is, however, one exception — which the audience will discover during the performance.

Participation by registration.

28 June, 18:30–19:45
From Lviv City Council (1 Rynok Square) to Lviv Municipal Art Center (11 Stefanyk St.)

Audio Walk: Call Sign Odyssey

A symbolic journey of return, created in collaboration with veterans and active military personnel within the project Odyssey. Return.

This is a speculative utopia that helps to reflect on shared veteran experience and to find a language for articulating it — with oneself, with comrades, and with civilians. It is grounded in real testimonies, living voices, and lived experience of war.

Participation by registration.

29 June, 16:00–18:00
Workshop: Camouflaging the Horizon

An introduction to and hands-on work with the materials used in camouflage net production. Using these fabrics, participants will create their own landscapes, exploring how camouflage reshapes our perception of nature and terrain.

Admission to the exhibition is free.
Opening hours: Tue–Sat 12:00–20:00

Workshop participation by registration: https://forms.gle/Qa46QgcRUWMkMsHr6

29 June, 19:30–20:30
UNBROKEN Terrace, 25d Hetmana Mazepy St.

Concert with veterans, musicians of the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, and the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra

The concert features songs from the performance The Lift Director, created by veterans undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN centre. Arranged by composer and music therapist Nigel Osborne, the songs will be performed by the veterans themselves together with musicians from the INSO-Lviv Orchestra.

In the second part of the evening, electronic ambient music will merge with symphonic orchestral sound in a collaboration between Ukrainian Armed Forces veteran Oleksandr Ivanko and the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

“As far as I know, something like this has never been done in Ukraine — playing ambient music with a symphony orchestra. It is something new, a new practice, new knowledge. Maybe someone will be inspired to start making music after this event. In this way, it also promotes music therapy as a form of rehabilitation,” says Oleksandr.

Admission is free.

30 June, 16:00–18:00
HOMIN Center, 30 Yaroslavenka St.

Singing Circle with Nataliia Rybka-Parkhomenko

A Singing Circle is a space of live sound, where the voice becomes a tool for self-expression, inner opening, and emotional restoration. Through folk song, breathing, resonance, bodily awareness, and shared vocal practice, participants gradually discover their natural voice and a deeper connection with themselves.

In this process, Ukrainian folk song is not only music, but also a carrier of memory, strength, emotion, and inner support. Singing in a circle helps create a sense of belonging, a safe space for expression, and an opportunity to release inner tension while returning to one’s natural voice.

The workshop does not require any musical education or vocal experience. What matters is not “correct singing,” but sincerity, presence, and willingness to sound. Through vocal and creative practices, participants explore their inner state, learn to listen to themselves, express emotion, and experience the power of a collective voice.

Workshop participation by registration: https://forms.gle/ACP1JgFsQihFpJke6

30 June, 17:00–18:00
Dzyga Gallery, 35 Virmenska St.

Film Screening: This Is Also Ukraine

A short documentary created by teenagers from Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Sumy as part of the Balmy Ukraine project. Tender and honest, the film captures the beauty of everyday life, fragile hope, and the challenges of adolescence — as well as experiences that often disappear in the shadow of a full-scale war.

The project brought together Dasha, Hanna, Kira, Oleksa, Rost, Sasha, two Vlas, Vesna, and Zakhar — graduates of the Kids Art Retreat Project and teenagers who love Radiohead, drawing, swimming, falling in love, watching films, and spending time with friends.

Over three months, they wrote, sang, danced, embraced, laughed, cried, and met regularly to reflect on who they are and what they are going through. Throughout this process, they were supported by Ukrainian and British artists, psychologists, and producers — including James Leadbitter, Jenna Omelchenko, Anastasiia Kosodii, Mariia Felenko, Kateryna Kroha, Andrii Ptitsyn, and Oksana Chyzh.

The result is a poetic, mosaic-like film about life near the frontline through the eyes of teenagers: unfiltered, ordinary, and extraordinary at the same time. It explores identity, belonging, love and anger, and the attempt to continue living in the presence of constant uncertainty.

The film was created within the Balmy Ukraine project, part of Balmy Army initiated by the vacuum cleaner, and developed in partnership with the British Council, NGO “Independent Cultural Initiatives,” and Art Therapy Force.

Admission is free.