OSCE-supported exhibition promotes artistic forms of dialogue among youth in Ukraine

KYIV, 20 March 2019 – The “Puzzle Connection” exhibition, with artworks by young people from across Ukraine, including young artists who had to leave their homes because of hostilities in the eastern part of the country, opens to the public at the Kyiv History Museum from 22 March to 7 April 2019. 

The exhibition is an outcome of a project initiated and implemented by the Youth Contact Group, an informal union of young people supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator to promote various forms of dialogue on burning issues among youth across Ukraine.

It will feature works by Mariya Boychenko, Mariya Bortsova, Denis Yermak, Nastya Mishchuk, Volodymyr Oliynyk and Maryna Tanevska, who produced their paintings and installations in a process of communication and dialogue on issues that are of importance for Ukrainian youngsters nowadays.

The displayed artworks focus on topics including re-socialization, problems of interaction with own self, relatives and wider society and the impact of internal and external limitations on day-to day existence. 

Media representatives are invited to attend the opening of the exhibition that will take place at 18:00 on Monday, 25 March 2019, at 7 Bohdan Khmelnytsky St., Kyiv, Ukraine (Kyiv History Museum).

Henrik Villadsen, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator of Ukraine, representatives of the diplomatic community and the artists participating in the project will attend the event.

Journalists wishing to cover the ceremony are requested to confirm their participation by e-mail to andrii.dziubenko@osce.org , by 14:00 on Monday, 25 April 2019. For additional information please contact Andrii Dziubenko, National Programme Co-ordinator at  +380506767734.