Ready-to-Print Exhibition on Ukraine’s Energy Humanitarian Crisis

Conceived for the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the project will address the energy humanitarian crisis produced by Russia's sustained attacks on civilian energy infrastructure and the resulting, recurrent deprivation of essential services—electricity, heating, and reliable access to water.
The exhibition is designed as a public, evidence-based cultural intervention that renders this crisis intelligible to international audiences and resists its normalization as a “routine” condition of war.

The exhibition will be structured as an artistic–documentary assemblage comprising ready-to-print artworks by Ukrainian artists who continue to live and work in Ukraine, accompanied by short contextual texts grounded in lived experience. Rather than illustrating news coverage, the artworks function as situated testimony: they translate infrastructural violence into the language of everyday life—darkness, cold, interrupted care, disrupted labour, and the constant recalibration of domestic survival. Over time, these conditions reshape collective behaviour and civic life, producing both fatigue and, paradoxically, new forms of mutual support and solidarity.

The ready-to-print format is integral to the project’s efficacy and scale. By distributing a unified package of print files, an introductory panel, and clear production guidelines, the exhibition can be produced locally by partner institutions worldwide—museums, universities, cultural centres, embassies, NGOs, libraries, and community venues—without the shipment of original works and without complex logistics.

This model enables rapid replication and broad geographic reach while maintaining curatorial coherence. It is intentionally designed to remain meaningful at different scales: a single image with its accompanying text can operate as a concise public act of witnessing, while a full installation offers an interpretive environment suitable for education, dialogue, and institutional programming.

Alongside the exhibition, we offer an optional giving component that turns public attention into practical protection for civilians —powering Ukrainian schools and hospitals with hybrid solar and battery storage. Such systems ensure a reliable electricity supply from solar power, the grid, or stored energy, so schools and hospitals can remain operational during outages and serve as Points of Invincibility, sometimes the only source of power for the wider community. Each partner can rally around a clear, tangible outcome: helping secure resilient energy for one school or one hospital, while contributions of any size will remain welcome.
The Artists Support Ukraine exhibitions have been shown since 2022 in more than 30 countries and 50 cities around the world, from South Korea to Canada. The exhibition functions as cultural infrastructure: a transnational platform for public understanding that supports Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, strengthens accountability-based discourse, and helps keep international attention focused on the conditions required for a just and lasting peace.
Initiated by the Energy Act for Ukraine Foundation—a Ukrainian charity organization established in 2022 to strengthen energy resilience by equipping schools and hospitals with hybrid solar power solutions—the exhibition is developed in collaboration with Artists Support Ukraine (ASU) as an internationally replicable cultural response to the energy humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.