Art sprouts through time and experience — like light through cracks.
From September 18 to October 12, the exhibition “Between Worlds” was held at The National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, curated by Natalia Kupchyk and Delnara El.
It brought together works by 187 contemporary Ukrainian artists in two sections: botanical painting and contemporary art.
Visitors also enjoyed workshops, curator-led tours, and lectures by ecologists, scientists, and art historians.
“Between Worlds” is not just about art. It is about our present and future.
The exhibition invites us to transform pain into a language of growth, care, and mutual support.
It is a meeting of individual and collective experience, where art helps us find the strength to move forward together.
This exhibition is about our present — layered and multidimensional.
Between war and peace. Between body and nature. Between the digital and the real.
Each artwork is a portal to a new perspective — a new sense of self, the world, and time.
Alongside the “Between Worlds” exhibition, two solo exhibitions were also held, together forming a trilogy:
The exhibition “The Garden” by Nataliia Kupchyk is a reinterpretation of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
According to the artist, the depicted plants and flowers were, or still are, part of her own garden or everyday life.
The exhibition “On the Edge” by Delnara El explores a state of transition, where the boundary becomes a sensitive zone of interaction between human and non-human agents.
Here, the boundary is not an end, but a threshold — a frame, an opening, a curtain, a space between the inner and the outer, the conscious and the unconscious, the interior and infinity. It constantly challenges our perception: what we let in, what we leave outside, where the invisible seam lies between seeing and knowing.
The Ukrainian experience of living “between worlds” — between home and temporary refuge, between the past and the need to build the future — gives this boundary a deeply personal dimension, turning it into a point of renewed rootedness and responsibility.
ROSA was glad to join this large-scale art project as an event partner.
We thank the exhibition curators, Nataliia Kupchyk and Delnara El, for organizing this remarkable creative project.
We are proud of the talented Ukrainian watercolour artists!
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