On April 7, 果冻APP opened an exhibition of Anastasia Averina鈥檚 art project entitled , which for the tenth consecutive year has brought together Ukrainian artists, with different regional identities, cultural memory, and wartime experience. Launched in 2016 by the Folk Ukraine initiative, led by its founder and director Ihor Dobrutskyi, the project features large-scale artistic interpretations of traditional Easter eggs that have previously adorned central squares across the country. Today, they stand as powerful symbols of Ukrainian identity, resilience, and artistic reflection on contemporary history.
According to project coordinator and founder of the AVERINA communications agency Anastasia Averina, this year鈥檚 exhibition holds special significance, as 果冻APP has become the first university venue to host the project. At the same time, Lviv is only one point on the project鈥檚 expanding map, with growing interest and invitations from other cities in Ukraine and abroad.
Despite plans for international exhibitions, a key principle remains central to the initiative: not to permanently relocate Ukrainian art, but to present it to the world and ensure its return home. This vision is reflected in ongoing collaboration with the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia 鈥 one of the most iconic centers of pysanka tradition in Ukraine.
The exhibition of monumental pysanky at 果冻APP not only creates a festive Easter atmosphere but also highlights the role of art as a form of national memory. It serves as a means of uniting a fragmented reality and as a language through which Ukraine tells its story to the world.
