Today, ZAG Gallery unveils a new chapter: “Heaven/Hell.”
This large-scale artistic project brings together works by Albrecht Dürer, Marcantonio Raimondi, 17th-century Dutch still life masters, 11th-century Dutch graphic art, 16th-century Ukrainian icon painting, and contemporary Ukrainian artists. Yet above all, it is a dialogue — about boundaries, about choice, about the inner struggle that unfolds within each of us. This is a project that shifts the viewer’s perspective from the external — “What am I seeing?” — to the internal — “What am I feeling?”
“HELL… This question has become painfully relevant in times of war. People live through war — as though in hell. People create hell within their own homes, with their own hands. People love profoundly, kill one another — and then comes hell. Our soldiers survive by killing the enemy — but which of them ends up in hell? A family is killed — three daughters and their mother — the father survives, but he is cast into hell on earth… So where is hell, truly? Who knows where its gates lie — and who grants access?” — Khrystyna Berehovska
The exhibition features works by Illia Trofimchuk (T-GOIS), Oleksii Abramov, Maryana Motyka, Danylo Turii, Molchan, Rīga Rina, Strakhov, Honcharuk, Weisberg, and others — artists who transform personal and collective trauma into the visual languages of sculpture, installation, and painting.
