Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Ukraine
Crop Diversity in Ukraine
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Ukraine has a rich agricultural potential due to its fertile black soil and diverse climatic conditions. This allows for the cultivation of a wide range of crops, which play a significant role in the country's economy and its food security. For many years, plants and people have lived in harmony, creating a unique cultural landscape that has inspired many artists and botanists. The diversity of crops in Ukraine is not only an economic asset but also a source of creative inspiration for many generations of artists and scientists. Reflecting this wealth in art helps to better understand and appreciate the natural gifts of our land.
ORGANIZERS
Society of Ukranian Botanical Artists (SUBA)
botanicalartua.com
STEERING COMMITTEE
Liudmyla Komandyr: Chairman of the Board SUBA, Curator of the exhibition
Alona Hrinchuk: Board member of the SUBA, Curator of the exhibition
Olexii Kovalenko: Researcher of the Museum's Botanical Department
Yuliia Komar: M.Sc. Department of Museology and NTI
Jurors
Olexii Kovalenko (Botanist)
Asuka Hishiki (Botanical artist)
Eunike Nugroho (Botanical artist)
Aleksandr Smahlyi (Botanical artist)
EXHIBITION VENUE
The Ukrainian exhibition will be held at the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NNHM). The National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is one of the biggest scientific research museums of the type in the world. It was established in 1966 as a unified complex comprising five museums: the Geological, Paleontological, Zoological and Botanical. The National Museum of Natural History is located in the heart of Kyiv, in an antique mansion with expressive and remarkable architecture. From April 2025, there will be an announcement on the museum's website
15 Bohdan Khmelnitsky , Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine. (M."Teatralna"),
INTERNET: site of museum : www.museumkiev.org
https://goo.gl/maps/GPuDTAmsgGKkPgDF7
Dates
Exhibition opens to visitors - May 16, 2025
Official opening - May 18, 2025
Exhibition will run for approximately one month
ARTWORK
Prunus domestica,
watercolor on paper,
© Maryna Vozniuk
Prunus domestica is a fruit flowering tree in the family Rosaceae. Widespread in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit is edible and usually sweet, though some varieties are sour and require cooking with sugar to make them palatable.
Cucurbita moschata,
watercolor on paper,
© Liyudmyla Komandyr
Cucurbita moschata - is an annual plant with a recumbent stem. It is ubiquitous in the centre of its origin in Central America, southern Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. The plant has also been introduced to many Eurasian countries, where it is actively cultivated. The pulp is used for industrial juice production. The seeds of the plant are used to produce butternut squash oil.
Chelidonium majus,
Graphite on paper,
© Antonina Shesteriakova
Chelidonium majus grows in Europe, Western and Central Asia and North Africa, can reach 1 m in height and has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times. This life-size drawing by Antonina Shesteriakova shows all the stages of flowering and the delicate lacy leaves of this charming plant. This is the first drawing from the forthcoming Medicinal Plants series.
For more information
Society of Ukrainian Botanical Artists (SUBA) https://www.botanicalartua.com/
Social media https://www.instagram.com/suba.art.ua
Call for entry: https://www.botanicalartua.com/?page_id=29594
From April 2025, there will be an announcement on the museum's https://museumkiev.org/indexeng.html
Botanical Art Worldwide 2018
Flora of Ukraine
About this Exhibition
The Ukrainian exhibition will be held at the M. M. Gryshko National Botanic Garden of National Academy of Science of Ukraine. The venue will be open May 18 – May 27, 2018. This year the National Academy of Science of Ukraine is celebrating its 100 years anniversary.
artwork
Sorbus aucuparia is a species very common to Ukraine. It can be as well found in almost all parts of Europe. The painting by Marina Voznuk shows beautiful autumn berries of this plant. Fruits remain on branches until late autumn and even sometimes throughout winter.
Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia, watercolor on paper, ©MarinaVoznuk
Red Clover, Trifilium pratense, watercolor on paper, ©Lisa Chernyavska
Artist Lisa Chernyavska has created the real-size painting of Trifolium pratense, also known as Red Clover. This plant is native to Europe, Western Asia and northwest Africa and can grow up to 80 cm tall. It is known to be widely used in alternative medicine.
Larisa Chaika painted Anemóne sylvéstris, grown in her own garden. Wood Anemone is very delicate and elegant flower which blossoms in spring. It is native to meadows and dry deciduous woodlands of central and western Europe, including Ukraine. Due to its ability to grow quickly, anemone can be seen more often in flowerbeds in gardens and parks, rather than in forests.
Anemóne sylvéstris, watercolor on paper, ©Larisa Chaika
Organizers
M. M. Gryshko National Botanic Garden of NAS of Ukraine, 1 Timiryazevska St., 01014, Kyiv, Ukraine
Steering Committee
Marina Voznuk
Antonina Shesteriakova
Lisa Chernyavska
Larisa Chaika
Mykola Gaponenko (Botanical Garden)
exhibition Venue
M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of NAS of Ukraine (NBG) is recognized in Ukraine and in the world's leading research institutions. NBG is an important scientific and practical center on the introduction, acclimatization, breeding, conservation of biological diversity, environmental monitoring, landscape greening, chemical interactions and plant protection.
Photo courtesy M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of NAS of Ukraine
Location
M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of NAS of Ukraine