The Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv will host the exhibition “The Return of Memory. Stolen Art in Museum Art Prints. The Kherson Collection” — a joint exhibition project by the Olexii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum and VIVID FUSION, which brings back into visibility what is currently physically inaccessible.

The exhibition presents 30 art prints of works from the Kherson Art Museum collection. The original artworks were stolen by Russian occupiers, yet preserved in digital form and recreated as precise, high-quality art prints.

Among the featured artists are Leonid Chychkan, Mykola Pymonenko, Rufin Sudkovsky, Ivan Aivazovsky, Volodymyr Patyk, Kostiantyn Kryzhytskyi, Serhii Vasylkivsky, Viktor Zaretsky, and others.

Art can disappear from museum walls yet remain in our memory and history. This exhibition project explores the question of what happens to an artwork when its original physically disappears, but it continues to live in people’s consciousness, within the cultural and informational sphere, and through visual images that cannot be erased. Art endures occupation, displacement, and loss — but it does not vanish.

Project partners: the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv, the Olexii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum, and VIVID FUSION.

Project curator: Dmytro Dotsenko.