Sophia Kishkovsky

‘While there are dictators, no one can feel safe’: projects marking anniversaries of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine emphasise need for global vigilance

Among the initiatives launched to mark both 1,000 days since the invasion and its approaching third anniversary is an exhibition in Kharkiv exploring how the concept of safety “has been profoundly redefined by the war”

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Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman wins Ukraine's $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize

A ceremony to announce the award, which had been delayed by Russia's full-scale invasion, was held in Kyiv last week

Treasured Constructivist skyscraper in Kharkiv damaged by Russian strike

Derzhprom, completed in 1928, is an important symbol of Ukrainian national identity

State Tretyakov Gallery accused of making ‘gross and inexcusable mistake’ by restructuring contemporary art department

An open letter signed by hundreds of Russian art professionals claims that the decision to merge several departments into one could lead to the museum losing pioneering recent works as well as specialists

Russian military destroys ancient Ukrainian burial mounds, report finds

Satellite imagery and geospatial analysis reveals extent of damage to sites in occupied region

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'This year is particularly special': art prize exhibition delayed by Russian invasion opens in Kyiv

In the midst of an ongoing war, the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Prize will award $100,000 to one of 21 shortlisted artists

US government provides more funds and imposes new restrictions to safeguard Ukrainian art

An additional $1m in funding for preservation and conservation efforts follows new import restrictions to help curb Russia’s looting and trafficking of Ukraine’s heritage

President Volodymyr Zelensky visits New York’s Ukrainian Museum, calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’

The Ukrainian president and first lady, who are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, inaugurated the museum’s major Alexandra Exter exhibition

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In Belarus, freedom of expression for writers and artists remains a dream

While reportedly nearly 1,400 political prisoners, including 163 cultural figures, remain behind bars, the government stages cultural events whose prime purpose is to bolster the regime and its autocratic leader

18-year-old artist Veronika Kozhushko killed in Russian airstrike on Kharkiv

The prominent Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan described her as “very young, sincere and gifted," adding: "There is no explanation for this. And there is no forgiveness either”

A Hamptons art gala raises money for Ukrainian children, with an assist from actor Liev Schreiber

As the summer season in the tony Long Island enclave wound down, the humanitarian organisation BlueCheck and Manhattan’s Mriya gallery teamed up for a benefit auction

Volta New York champions Ukrainian artists

The satellite fair’s new director visited Kyiv in the spring to forge partnerships with artists and dealers there

Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons

Through Vatican mediation, the museum researcher was freed alongside nine others earlier this summer

Ukraine calls for UN to intervene after ancient Crimean heritage site transformed into cultural complex

Tauric Chersonese, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has been transformed by Russia into a “historical and archaeological park”

Ukrainian worker manages a wrecked museum in exile

Mariupol museum’s Oleksandr Hore, trapped in Odesa, is documenting losses and monitoring looting

New York City’s ‘first Ukrainian art gallery’ highlights artists living in the war zone

“Some of the works that we’re selling here, I’m very confident that in three years they will double in price,” says Mriya gallery founder Artem Yalanskiy

Russian dissident artist released as part of historic prisoner swap

Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested in 2022 for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was freed along with Wall Street Journal writer Evan Gershkovich and 15 others

Russian artist imprisoned for three and a half years over alleged anti-war supermarket protest

Anastasia Dyudyaeva is the second artist in less than a year to be jailed for allegedly disseminating anti-government messages in such a setting

‘These are terrible crimes’: A Ukrainian museum director’s fight to recover art

Alina Dotsenko of the Kherson Art Museum explains how her team is working to find stolen objects

Anglo-French actor brings Ukrainian art to London with new festival

Edward Akrout is launching Kyiv Art Sessions at the Old Sessions House this weekend

Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

Exiled Russian artist reflects on the impact of war on his hometown in Peckham show

Pavel Otdelnov's show at the Old Waiting Room in south London aims to “discover the origins of the catastrophe unfolding before our eyes today”

Polish museum receives anonymous package containing lost 17th-century tiles

The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War

Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification'

The Pereyaslav Rada sculpture celebrates a historical agreement between the two nations

Back to his roots: Ukrainian Museum in New York offers another angle on Peter Hujar

Show shines a light on lesser-known early images by the celebrated photographer

New Manhattan art fair has Estonian flavour

Esther, established by two gallerists from the Baltic state, is inspired by the pop-up Basel Social Club

Russian security forces search Moscow’s Garage Museum

The raid was reportedly related to an investigation into dissident artist Pyotr Verzilov

Fifteen exhibitions to see in New York this spring

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

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Head of New Holland art centre in St Petersburg resigns after husband's social post

Roxana Shatunovskaya stepped down from the space founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich after her husband posted about the Moscow terrorist attack on Facebook

Russia lending its Venice Biennale pavilion to Bolivia

The Russian pavilion will host a group exhibition of artists from South America organised by Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures, Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation