Artist Talk: A conversation between Daria Shevtsova and Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga)

On Thursday, December 11 at 18:30, we invite you to an Artist Talk with Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga) as part of the exhibition “Certain Future Evidence”.

The event will take place on the 2nd floor of the PinchukArtCentre, near the reception area.
An online participation of the Open Group members is planned.
Admission is free with prior registration.

During the conversation, Daria Shevtsova will speak with the artists about their artistic practice, their approach to creating “open situations,” their ongoing work with the theme of collective memory, and the exhibition “Certain Future Evidence”.
The artists will share more about the projects presented in the exhibition — particularly how personal testimonies, archival materials, and individual stories become part of a broader reflection on what we remember today and how that memory is formed.

Open Group – Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga is a Ukrainian collective founded in 2012 in Lviv, and since 2015 it has been scattered across different countries, with members living in Ukraine, Poland, Germany and the United States.

Their works were featured at the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. In 2016, the Open Group curated the show entitled “Dependence Degree, Collective Practices of Young Ukrainian Artists 2000-2016” BWA Awangarda (Wrocław, Poland). In 2017, the group’s work was presented in frames of the Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2017 (collateral events of the 57th Venice Biennale). In 2019, the Open Group was the curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2024, the Open Group was representing Poland at the 60th Venice Biennale with the project “Repeat after me II”.

Daria Shevtsova is a curator at the PinchukArtCentre. She curated the exhibitions “The Beast Came Out of the Forest” (2025) and the Future Generation Art Prize 2024 (together with Inga Lāce and Oleksandra Pohrebniak). Since 2022, she has been a member of the Kyiv Biennial team and co-curated the exhibition “Where Are We Now, After All These Endlessly Repeated Words?” as part of the Kyiv Biennial 2023 (together with Petro Ryaska). She previously curated the exhibition and public programs of the Closer Art Centre (2017–2020) and was a member of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform (2016–2020).