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Exhibition Symptoms at the Gallery of the Lviv National Academy of Arts

Invitations AFAD and Ukraine Studio Photography – Reality – Construct Theory and History of Art

On April 29, 2026, the exhibition Symptoms opened at the LNAA Gallery, emerging from a shared intention, dialogue, and collaboration between students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

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Gallery LNAA, b, 35 Kubiiovycha St, Lviv, Lviv Oblast, 79011

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The generalizing concept of the symptom became a key that made it possible to interpret the different, yet ultimately similar, experiences of students from both studios. In the humanities context, the concept of the symptom extends beyond its medical definition as a “sign of illness”; in visual art, it appears above all as a sign that represents, suggests, or conceals something. It is also often described as “a silence that speaks”, where the conscious and the unconscious, the individual and the social, meet.

Working on the projects became a form of “remote” dialogue, revealing that despite distance and difference, we are troubled by similar questions and concerns, and that our ways of thinking and perceiving the world have more in common than may seem at first glance.

Three departments collaborated on the project: the Department of Current Art Practices of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, the Studio Photography, Reality, Construction, and the Department of Theory and History of Art at AFAD.

Exhibiting artists:

  • Mariia Bohomolova (UKR), Johana Bukovsky (SK), Samuel Čenger (SK), Tatiana Čerepová (SK), Žaneta Čuteková (SK), Ema Kassay (SK), Alona Korchan (UKR), Maryna Levchenko (UKR), Ema Likavcová (SK), Diana Leonidova (UKR), Marian Malatinec (SK), Kateryna Manzhos (UKR), Vanesa Mináriková (SK), Iryna Parnytska (UKR), Sonia Ščepánová (SK)

Curatorial team:

  • Kristína Čiráková (SK), Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska (UKR), Mykhaylo Barabash (UKR), Beata Jablonská (SK)

Consultants to the Slovak curatorial team:

  • Jana Hojstričová (SK), Michal Huba (SK)
Poster for the exhibition “Symptoms” at the Gallery of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. It lists the opening on April 29 at 15:00 and the duration April 29 – May 11. The visual shows a close-up of skin with beige adhesive patches. The text states that the exhibition features students from the LNAA department and the “Reality. Construction” photography studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.

Invitation image: Sonia Ščepánová: Autopsy, 2025

 

 

 

Financed by EU

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Erasmus+ programme.