Press releases
2008
The 2nd YES University, forum of the young political leaders of Europe held in Kyiv on October 2-4, has adjourned its work.
PinchukArtCentre presents the exhibition Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky from September 28 to November 2, 2008, devoted to the Weeks of German Culture in Ukraine.
01/07/2008, Tony Blair to become a special guest of the 5th annual meeting of Yalta European Strategy
British politician and public leader Mr. Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 will arrive to Ukraine to participate in the 5th annual summit of the international network Yalta European Strategy (YES) on invitation of Mr. Victor Pinchuk, founder and the Board Member of YES.
"Paul McCartney. Paintings" exhibition will open in the PinchukArtCentre from 17 June till 13 July. The exhibition presents 41 works by Sir Paul McCartney created from 1988 to 1999. Several works will be exhibited in public for the first time.
Today, May 16 2008, the first Ukrainian intellectual forum for youth «Zavtra (Tomorrow): the World, Ukraine, and Me» was opened at 11:00, in Ukraine's House. The forum is held within the framework of ZAVTRA.UA scholarship program, a nationwide project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation for supporting the gifted youth.
07/05/2008, The seventh UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to speak to scholars of Zavtra.UA program on May 16, 2008
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has invited the seventh UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1997-2006) to be the guest of honor at the first Ukrainian intellectual youth forum «Zavtra (Tomorrow): the World, Ukraine, and Me».
On Saturday 14th June 2008, at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Paul McCartney will perform to hundreds and thousands of people in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine.
PinchukArtCentre has opened a new space, the Project Room, to place on show pieces made by young Ukrainian and foreign artists especially for display at the PinchukArtCentre.
Introducing the top-notch world artists to Ukraine, the PinchukArtCentre presented a solo exhibition of Mariko Mori, one of the most seminal artists coming out of Japan in last fifty years. It has been the first exhibition of her works in the Central and Eastern Europe ever.
07/02/2008, Juergen Teller brings “Ukraine” to the USA
One of the world's leading photographers opens a personal exhibition dedicated to Ukraine country in New York
25/01/2008, Participants of 4th Davos Ukrainian Lunch discussed the impact of world economic crisis on Ukraine
The world economic crisis will not substantially impact Ukraine and economies of the neighboring countries. So predicted director of Petersen Institute of International Economy (Sweden) Fred Bergstein in his speech on the 4th Davos Ukrainian Luncheon, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Company.
Davos Philanthropic Roundtable organized by the Victor Pinchuk
Foundation closed its work in Davos, Switzerland. Participants thereof
discussed a new, accountable to society philanthropic model allowing to
achieve long-term measurable results.
2007
319,332 visitors at the 52nd International Art Exhibition: best result in the past twenty-five years.
08/10/2007, Going amiss and finding yourself by touch. PinchukArtCentre opened REFLECTION exhibition
PinchukArtCentre celebrates its second year by opening REFLECTION exhibition, which showcases the newest acquisitions from PinchukArtCentre's collection.
The winners of "Art-Summer in Venice with PinchukArtCentre" Quiz Program have returned to Ukraine from the "Olympic Games of the Art World".
Number of participants of the 4th annual meeting of Yalta European Strategy organization reached a record breaking 170 persons.
Head of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, David Fernish and the founder ANTIAID Foundation, Elena Franchuk have dedicated the first half of the Saturday, June, 16, to the study of situation on spread of HIV-AIDS in Ukraine.
06/06/2007, ‘A Poem about an Inland Sea’, The Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice 2007
The exhibition, entitled ‘A Poem about an Inland Sea', features artists from the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States who demonstrate a cohesive vision and commitment to exploring new and active roles for artists in society.
“An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection” exhibition is be open June 16 through August 12 2007 in the PinchukArtCentre.
On May 22, 2007 in Chernnivtsi City, a new neonatal intensive care centre was opened under the auspices of the “Cradles of Hope” Program sponsored by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Kyiv School of Economy (KSE) under support of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation hosts a public lecture “Contemporary economics and its application” by Dr. Robert Pindyck
May 22 2007 in Chernivtsi a new Centre for rendering medical aid to the newborns is launched. The action takes place within the framework of the Cradles of Hope program of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The program aims at providing an integral complex of medical services to aid the newborns.
A famous photographer Juergen Teller, holder of Citibank Prize for Photography 2003 has arrived in Kyiv to represent Ukraine at 52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia within the framework of PinchukArtCentre project.
The Centre for Contemporary Art PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presented a personal exhibition of the world famous Brazilian artist and photographer Vik Muniz “Vik Muniz: A Survey”. The works of the artist were exhibited in the largest museums of the world and at the most prestigious exhibitions of the last decade. At press-conference on the occasion of presentation the president of PinchukArtCentre Peter Doroshenko noticed, that it is the first exhibition of Vik Muniz to be seen in the Eastern Europe.
PinchukArtCentre keeps on acquainting Ukrainians with contemporary world art and presents, from April 14 through May 20, personal exhibition of Vik Muniz “Vik Muniz: A Survey”. At his first in the Eastern Europe personal exhibition, the Brazilian artist will present specially selected works which were created in 1993-2007, that is a mini-retrospective which includes about 50 works.
27/02/2007, A large-scale tour of LENCOM theatre in Ukraine
The legendary theatre LENCOM, with whose performances a number of generations grew up, opens its new tour season in the independent Ukraine. After a five-year long pause, this Moscow theatre came to Kyiv again, at the invitation of Victor Pinchuk. The spectators will have the chance to see three performances, which have not been shown in Ukraine before.
Commissioner of the Ukrainian pavilion Peter Doroshenko presents the art project “Poem on the Inner Sea” with which Ukraine will participate in the 52nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (the Venice Biennale). The Ukrainian exhibition will be open at Palazzo Papadopoli from June 7th to November 21st 2007.
The film, Spell Your Name, which premiered in Kyiv, Ukraine in October 2006, will now be seen by wider audiences across Ukraine.
Yesterday, on the 31st of January, an awarding ceremony for the winners of the stipend program ZAVTRA.UA was held.
The world-famous Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho arrives for the third time in Kiev together with the Ukrainian-American NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshin-Piper to participate in the awards ceremony for the first winners of the nation-wide program “Zavtra.ua” of The Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Though it lacks official status as a candidate country, many observers are of the view that the Ukraine will, one day, also join the EU. This forms the context to Yalta European Strategy's third survey of the opinions of Europeans and the Ukraine's membership of the European Union.
The goal of the contest is to involve the most active part of intellectual and business elite of the state in the processes of building and consolidating the Ukrainian society
At the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Interpipe and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the traditional Davos Ukrainian Lunch on Friday January 26th at 12.45 (Morosani Schweizerhof Hotel - Davos Platz).
Stefanyshyn-Piper is invited to visit Ukraine by Victor Pinchuk, founder of Interpipe Corporation. The first trip to her father’s native country will spend for four days – since January 28th to January 31st.
Its main goal is to provide a general review of contemporary art in both countries, while focusing on the new and most interesting phenomena.
Peter Doroshenko, the director of one of the largest in Europe BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, England), has been appointed as the President of PinchukArtCentre.
2006
YES Board Members presented to Commissioner Rehn a strategic document for Ukraine’s accession to the EU, “Agenda 2020”. According to YES, there is a need of a new format for the EU-Ukraine relations and a new quality of a cooperation framework that would not be limited to the general European Neighbourhood Policy.
Since the PinchukArtCentre opening in Kyiv, more than 22 000 visitors have attended the "New Space" exhibition. According to Dmitry Logvin, the PinchukArtCentre director, the attendance peak falls on week-ends
In November 10, 2006 in Kiev Premier Palace Hotel, Deepak Verma and Gaurav Bhattacharya, representatives of Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, introduced the project of universal access to treatment to key stakeholders in HIV/AIDS area and media. The project was initiated by Ukrainian Government and will be implemented in cooperation with Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. Elena Franchuk, the founder of ANTIAIDS Foundation, Nadezhda Deyeva, the governor of Dnepropetrovsk region, Yuriy Polyachenko, Minister Health and partners – took part in the presentation.
YES is an international network established in 2004 to promote the development of a just, free and prosperous Ukraine, to build relations with the rest of the world and to support Ukraine’s membership to the European Union.
18/10/2006, Steven Spielberg, Victor Pinchuk to Host Premiere of documentary film on the Holocaust in Ukraine
The film, produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education with support from Mr. Pinchuk, takes viewers on a journey of discovery, as Mr. Bukovsky and three Ukrainian journalism students absorb the testimony of Jewish survivors who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbors during the Holocaust.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Economic Education and Research Consortium have launched a joint project – establishing of the Kiev School of Economics (KSE).
18/09/2006, The Foundation of President Clinton is integrating efforts in combating AIDS in Ukraine with
The Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, The Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and The Victor Pinchuk Foundation signed an agreement on cooperation in New York today that will integrate their efforts in the five-year project implementation targeted at slowing the growth of new HIV/AIDS cases, as well as for treatment and support of people living with HIV/AIDS in Ukraine.
: On the eve of Ukrainian Prime Minister’s visit to Brussels the European Commission has proposed negotiating directives for a new enhanced agreement with Ukraine to replace the existing Partnership and Co-operation Agreement
13/09/2006, Exhibition of Contemporary Art “New Space”
On the 16th of September, Victor Pinchuk’s Foundation “Contemporary Art in Ukraine” will open in Kyiv one of the biggest in the Eastern Europe centre for contemporary art - PinchukArtCentre.
12/09/2006, Charitable organization “THE VICTOR PINCHUK FOUNDATION” is launching THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
This is the first nationwide program on supporting the talented youth which is implemented with private funds. The program “Zavtra.UA” is a part of projects complex within the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in the educational and scientific sphere.
04/08/2006, “The Cradles of Hope”: Victor Pinchuk Foundation has opened a new neonatal intensive care center
Neonatal intensive care center was opened in the maternity hospital of the Vladimerets town (Rovenskaya region). It was done within the Cradles of Hope program being implemented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation which envisages a networking of the neonatal centers nationwide.
18/07/2006, YES has presented “Agenda 2020”, a plan of integration of Ukraine into the European Union
In Livadia Palace (Crimea, Ukraine), the third annual meeting of “Yalta European Strategy”, an international network for Ukraine in EU, has accomplished its work. At its closing plenary session, the YES has presented “Agenda 2020”, a plan for Ukraine’s integration into the EU, which outlines a set of preparatory steps for Ukraine’s entry to the EU.
Ex-President of Poland Aleksandr Kwasniewski has been elected a member of the board of the international network for Ukraine in the European Union "Yalta European Union" (YES). It was announced by Victor Pinchuk, founder and board member of this international organization, at the closing of the YES Third Annual Conference in the Livadia Palace of Yalta.
Among the guests and participants of this meeting, there were above 150 policy-makers, public figures and diplomats from Europe and USA, including members of parliaments and EU foreign ministers, heads of EU diplomatic missions in Ukraine, deputies of European Parliament.
On 1 June, the Day of Advocacy of Children, the neonatal center, an intensive therapy department for newborns, was launched in the Chernigov maternity hospital. The center was opened within the Cradles of Hope program which is developed and funded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation with a view to facilitate solving of the infant mortality problem.
Over 200 home and foreign policy experts, journalists, businessmen, academia and simply people who care about Ukraines future gathered in Berlin on April 25, 2006, for an international conference Ukraine After the Elections
