Dedicated to the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian Wartime Posters 2022–2025: The Way of Resistance features the work of 42 participating contemporary artists from Ukraine, Poland and France who created posters to support Ukraine in 2022-2025. These graphic works both reflect and record events, the courage and resistance of Ukrainians during the war, false Russian propaganda, and war crimes.

The exhibition includes a selection of 309 posters as well as video documentation of 37 Wartime Posters exhibitions held in public spaces of the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, over the past four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Wartime Posters is a long-term patriotic open-air art project founded in 2022 at the initiative of curators Olena Speranska and Gennadiy Kozub, in cooperation with the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Zaporizhzhia City Council.

In 2022–2023, nineteen outdoor Wartime Posters exhibitions by contemporary Ukrainian artists, graphic designers, and illustrators — including Les Arts contre la Guerre (a collective project that emerged in Paris, France) — were presented in Zaporizhzhia. As a result, a collection of 453 graphic works was compiled and published in the eponymous book in 2023, which will also be presented at the exhibition opening reception at the Clifford Gallery on February 25, following an opening lecture by curator Olena Speranska.

Participating artists: 
Oleh Buganov, Dmytro Dziuba, Oleksandr Grekhov, Oleg Gryshchenko, Artem Gusev, Yurko Gutsulyak, Anastasia Haidaenko, Mykola Honcharov, Zakentiy Horobyov, Vincent Hulme (France), Bartlomiej Kielbowicz (Poland), Myriam El Khawaga (France), Maria Kinovych, Stas Kolotov, Sashko Kom’yahov, Mykola Kovalenko, Nikita Kravtsov (Ukraine-France), Elina Kulich (France), Marta Leshak, Katya Lisova, Anton Logov, Daria Lutsyshyna, Maksym Malovichko, Nato Mikeladze, Vladyslav Mykhailiv, Marsel Onisko, Maksym Palenko, Yulya Pilyulya, Dasha Podoltseva, Oleksii Revika, Oleksiy Sai, Anna Sarvira, Liliana Saus (France), Iegor Sekirin (France), Mykyta Shylimov, Dmytro Simonov, Mykhailo Skop, Nikita Titov, Khrystyna Valko, Ivan Volyanskyi, Albina Yaloza, Andriy Yermolenko. 

This exhibition was made possible by the Zaporizhzhia City Council, BIRUCHIY contemporary art project, Contemporary Art Researchers Union (NGO, Ukraine), and Ukrainian Contemporary Art Platform (501(c)(3) non-profit, USA). Support for the lecture and exhibition at Colgate is provided by the Department of Art, the Colgate Arts Council, the Kraynak Institute for the Study of Freedom and Western Traditions, The Louis Rakin Fund of the Department of Political Science, Core Communities, and Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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