announcement of results
Announcing the Finalists of the Kazimierz Malewicz Art Award 2025
- The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, as a co-organiser of the Kazimierz Malewicz Art Award, is delighted to announce this year’s finalists.
- According to the Polish Institute in Kyiv, 57 submissions were received this year — the majority from individual artists, as well as three group applications. Entries came from Austria, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and, of course, from Poland and Ukraine.
- Nearly ten Polish cultural institutions from Warsaw, Biała Podlaska, Kraków, Poznań and Toruń nominated their candidates for the Award, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, the National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Galeria Labirynt and others.
- The number of Ukrainian applicants was even greater, with submissions from, among others, PinchukArtCentre, the Yermilov Centre, the National Centre Ukrainian House, the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, the Lviv National Academy of Arts, the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, GOGOLFEST, The Naked Room, Promprylad Art Center, Voloshyn Gallery, Dymchuk Gallery, the Museum of Ideas and many others.
- We extend our heartfelt thanks to all partners and institutions for their inspiring submissions, engagement and collaboration!
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After the completion of the technical selection, the deliberations of the International Jury, and the secret voting process, the finalists of the 2025 Kazimierz Malewicz Art Award are (in alphabetical order):
- OPEN GROUP
- Kateryna Lysovenko
- Stanislav Turina
- The Kazimierz Malewicz Art Award was established in 2008 by the Polish Institute in Kyiv and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art as a joint Polish–Ukrainian project. Its patron, Kazimierz Malewicz – an avant-garde artist of Polish descent born in Kyiv – serves as a symbolic bridge between the two cultures. The Award remains a platform for dialogue and artistic exchange in times of profound social and political transformation.
- The key innovation in this year’s edition is the establishment of the Council of Laureates, composed of previous winners of the Award. This new body aims to strengthen the project’s independence.
- Previous Laureates:
- 2008 – Alevtyna Kakhidze
- 2010 – Stas Volyazlovsky
- 2012 – Zhanna Kadyrova
- 2014 – Lada Nakonechna
- 2016 – Mykyta Kadan
- 2018 – Ivan Svitlychnyi
- 2020 – Sasha Kurmaz
- Members of the 2025 International Jury:
- Jarosław Godun – Chair of the Jury, Director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv, Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine
- Olga Wysocka – Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, cultural manager and political scientist
- Alevtyna Kakhidze – performance, drawing and media artist, writer, curator and educator
- Sasha Kurmaz – artist, laureate of the 2020 Malewicz Award
- Anna Łazar – Director of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, curator, writer and translator
- Daniel Muzyczuk – Director of the Museum of Art in Łódź, curator of numerous art projects
- Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta – Director General of the National Art and Culture Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, art manager and contemporary art curator
- Tetiana Filevska – Creative Director of the Ukrainian Institute, art manager, curator and researcher of twentieth-century Ukrainian art
- Monika Szewczyk – Director of the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, art historian and curator of numerous exhibitions
- Partner Institutions:
- Adam Mickiewicz Institute
- Ukrainian Institute
- Arsenal Gallery in Białystok
- Museum of Art in Łódź
- National Art Museum of Ukraine
- Co-organisers:
- Polish Institute in Kyiv — Польський Інститут у Києві
- Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
