Main image: Nikita Kadan, Fuck War #1, 2023
Galerie Poggi is presenting the project Ukrainian Season, which will bring together four exhibitions of contemporary Ukrainian artists in Paris. This was reported on the gallery’s Instagram page, galeriepoggi.
The project is dedicated to Kazimir Malevich, one of the pioneers of modernism and the Ukrainian avant-garde. Two of his rare drawings, The Prisoner’s Feeling (1930–1931), created during his imprisonment, open each exhibition of the season and establish a dialogue between the past and the present.
Nikita Kadan’s exhibition Rubble Flower takes place at Galerie Poggi, 135 Rue Saint-Martin, Paris, from October 22 to December 20, 2025, curated by Bjorn Geldhof. The project focuses on life amid ruins and the search for new forms of existence after destruction. Rubble Flower is also presented at Art Basel Paris in the Grand Palais (stand H15) in partnership with Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv–Miami) from October 22 to 26, 2025. The exhibition features the monumental graphic work Shchekavytsia and other new pieces that combine history, myth, and reflections on the current war.
Danyl Halkin’s exhibition Selected Works is on view at Galerie Poggi, 135 Rue Saint-Martin, Paris (first floor), from October 22 to December 20, 2025. The artist presents the Optical Prostheses series, which reinterprets Soviet stained glass from Dnipro as images of memory and fragile heritage destroyed by war.
The duo Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimey present the exhibition Repetitions at Galerie Poggi, 2 Rue Bobur, Paris, from October 22 to November 22, 2025. The exhibition centers on video installations exploring the repetition of history and the experience of a generation living in a state of war. The exhibition opens with Kazimir Malevich’s drawing The Prisoner’s Feeling.
At the same time, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei will show the work You Shouldn’t Have to See This at Chapelle de la Salpêtrière as part of Offscreen (83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris) from October 20 to 26, 2025. The video installation, first presented in Venice, depicts sleeping Ukrainian children who were abducted and returned from Russia, raising questions about the boundary between compassion and intrusion into private life.
The opening of Ukrainian Season, by invitation, will take place on October 21, 2025, from 19:00 to 23:00 at Galerie Poggi, 135 Rue Saint-Martin, Paris.
Ukrainian Season brings together the voices of four Ukrainian artists exploring memory, destruction, and resilience. Their works create a shared space for conversation about art, history, and the Ukrainian experience in a global context.
