Ready-to-Print Exhibition on Ukraine’s Energy Humanitarian Crisis
The exhibition is structured as an artistic–documentary assemblage comprising ready-to-print artworks by Ukrainian artists who continue to live and work in Ukraine. 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 behavior and civic life, producing both fatigue and, paradoxically, new forms of mutual support and solidarity.
The ready-to-print format enables the exhibition to be produced locally by partner institutions worldwide using a unified package of print files and clear production guidelines, without shipping original works or managing complex logistics. This allows for rapid replication and wide geographic reach while maintaining curatorial coherence. It works at different scales, from a single image as a public act of witnessing to a full installation supporting education, dialogue, and institutional programming.
This project is first and foremost a fundraising effort: we are raising €70,216 needed to install a 30 kW hybrid solar power system with 55,2 kWh battery storage at Zvenyhorodka Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Hospital (Cherkasy region), ensuring stable electricity for critical units during blackouts.
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) in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine as an internationally replicable cultural response to the energy humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.