Imago Mundi Foundation presents UKRAINE: SHORT STORIES at the Prisons Galleries from Friday 6 May to Sunday 29 May 2022 , curated by Solomia Savchuk , head of contemporary at the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, the main cultural institution of Ukraine. The exhibition includes the works of Ukrainian artists present in the Imago Mundi Collection, of which Savchuk is the curator, together with the watercolors by Yurii Ivantsyk and the Kollina sculpture by Olexa Furdiyak, the protagonist of a traveling exhibition on the Grand Canal in Venice last 22 April on the occasion of the Biennale Arte 2022.

UKRAINE: SHORT STORIES presents 140 works within the Prisons Galleries , with the characteristic 10 by 12 cm format, part of the Imago Mundi Collection specially created by Ukrainian artists and artists, young emerging and established authors already present in the most important museums and international galleries, which, with strength and passion, reflect a society that is reinventing itself, through instability, ideological and social changes, cruel conflicts, constantly looking for new ways to face history and affirm a new artistic freedom. With a range of styles and techniques ranging from optical effects to landscape sculptures to 3D magic, the artists' individual tales become the creative pieces of a great tale of today's Ukraine.

The collection takes into account the Ukrainian artistic-cultural complexity, offering an interesting insight, representative and symptomatic, still current. Ukraine: Short Stories is one of the thematic collections that - in line with the sensitivity to urgent contemporary issues that guides the choices of the Foundation and the Imago Mundi Collection - came to life in a particular historical moment for the events of the country. The works are strongly linked to the 2014 events with which Ukraine was forced to measure itself, and to the profound changes that this country, a delicate crossroads between the Baltic and Black Seas, has gone through in recent years.