"Among them is the Nahirna 22 arts collective, which runs 30 artist studios in the Kyiv Institute of Automation, and was hit by Russian air strikes that killed at least 23 in Ukraine's capital in August. Marta Nyrkova, a co-founder of Nahirna 22, tells The Art Newspaper that three artists' studios were forced to move and many more were damaged."
"Meanwhile, the Mykhailo Boychuk State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design in Kyiv, named after a seminal Ukrainian Modernist executed in 1937 during Stalin's Great Terror, was hit during a 2024 Russian missile strike. In July 2025, contractors were able to save surviving works and fragments from the academy's archives, including "many objects of painting, weaving, embroidery, ceramics, jewellery and sacred art" and student works, according to the academy's director, Olena Osadcha."
Ukrainian cultural institutions and artists continue restoring and producing artworks while facing targeted Russian attacks on cultural sites and identity. The Nahirna 22 arts collective operating 30 studios in the Kyiv Institute of Automation sustained damage from air strikes, forcing some studios to relocate while others were left damaged; the studios serve as wartime refuges where creators and visitors express emotions and make resistance visible. The Mykhailo Boychuk State Academy suffered a 2024 missile strike; contractors salvaged surviving paintings, textiles, ceramics, jewellery, sacred art and student works in July 2025 with support from Unesco, the Japanese government and Ukraine's culture ministry.
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