Press releases

2009

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation launches the search for potential candidates to take part in a selection process under the “WorlWideStudies” programme. The Foundation will give grants to young Ukrainians aged 35 and under, who wish to study Master’s degree programmes in the top international graduate schools in the following fields: agriculture, environment and ecology, law and public administration

The 2nd Youth Forum of the nationwide scholarship programme ‘Zavtra.ua’ of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation was held from 16 to 19 May. The event gathered 318 top students from all over Ukraine, the winners of this year’s Zavtra.UA competition

The Kyivites and the guests of the Ukrainian capital showed an unprecedented interest in the exhibition of Damien Hirst ‘Requiem’ that opened for the public access on Saturday, April 25

On 25 Aprill the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presented Requiem, a major retrospective of over 100 works dating from 1990 to 2008, by Damien Hirst. The exhibition also includes 40 new skull paintings created by the artist between 2006 and 2008.

On April 22, 2009, in the premises of the Neonatological Centre of the National Children's Specialized Hospital ‘Okhmatdyt', the 17th centre ‘Cradles oh Hope' was opened in Kyiv. It is a joint project of the British artist Damien Hirst and of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation under the Foundation's program in the field of health protection ‘Cradles of Hope'.

A joint project “Ask Damien Hirst a question” by the PinchukArtCentre and Korrespondent.net has started on 15 April 2009. During the next 8 days Ukrainians will be able to submit a question for one of the most iconic artist of our time. This can be done on-line through a specially created webpage

The Country’s Pride Prize award ceremony took place on 10 April 2009 at the National Ivan Franko Drama Theatre in Kyiv. This was the sixth ceremony honouring the laureates of the nationwide Prize, a project by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation implemented in close cooperation with the Novy Channel and Fakty newspaper

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre are pleased to announce that Illya Chichkan (Ukraine) and Mihara Yasuhiro (Japan) will be representing Ukraine at the 53rd Venice Biennale

On 25 February 2009 the names of the 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists, have been announced. The shortlist has been formed according to the results of the primary selection conducted by the Expert Committee.

The £300 000 proceeds from selling the "Dark Days" by Damien Hirst will be handed over to the Cradles of Hope, a programme developed by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and aimed at providing aid to newborns in Ukraine.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the international investment advisory group EastOne conducted the 5th Davos Ukrainian Lunch.

During the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation hosted the 2nd Davos Philanthropic Roundtable. The event gathered founders and leaders of the foremost philanthropic institutions of the world.

During the World Economic Forum, international investment advisory group EastOne and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will conduct the 5th Davos Ukrainian Lunch "Crisis: In & Out".

On 29 January 2009 during the World Economic Forum the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the 2nd Davos Philanthropic Roundtable entitled "From Philanthrocapitalism to Philanthrocrisis".

On 15 January 2009 the deadline for submission of applications for the PinchukArtCentre Prize was closed. PinchukArtCentre Prize is the first private nationwide art prize in Ukraine, which objective is to produce, support and develop a new generation of young Ukrainian artists working in contemporary art

2008

December 2 2008 former President Clinton concluded the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Asia meeting, which resulted in numerous examples of CGI members' Commitments to Action that will positively impact lives across the globe.

The main purpose of the Frontiers of Europe programme, developed by the Brookings Institution in 2006, is conducting research on the feasible policies for building a “whole and free” Europe (as well as the ways to obtain membership in the key institutions) and the prospects for gaining advantages from Europe’s expansion. This conference is a follow-up to a series of seminars taken place in Belgrade, Istanbul and Tbilisi, where these issues were discussed in the context of the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus region.

On 16th November a new 16 slice CT scan, provided by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, was installed in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Kyiv.

On 23rd November 2008, in the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, for the first time in the United States opens an exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust in Ukraine. The event is supported by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The exhibition titled «The Shooting of Jews in Ukraine: Holocaust By Bullets» is formed on the basis of the evidence, both physical and testimonial, gathered by Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest, with the purpose to uncover the truth behind the deaths of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II.

On 28 October 2008 a new "Cradles of Hope" Neonatal Centre has opened at the Regional Family Planning Centre in Ivano-Frankivsk. The event took place under the "Cradles of Hope" National Programme initiated by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

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 December 14, 2008, devoted to the Weeks of German Culture in Ukraine.

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.

Within the framework of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation program in public health domain the 14th newborn care center "Cradles of Hope" was opened on June 3, 2008 on the basis of Zhytomyr regional center of mother and infant healthcare.

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.

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.

Dr. Yunus told the story, dating back to the 80s, on the creation of Grameen Bank - the new model bank, which is oriented towards the population of the poor countries and dealing with provision of unsecured loans for people to start their own business.

One of the world's leading photographers opens a personal exhibition dedicated to Ukraine country in New York

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.

On October 24, 2007, as part of the KSE Public Lectures project hosted by the Kyiv School of Economics, Colin Powell, the 65th US Secretary of State gave a press briefing and a lecture "Democracy and Global World Challenges".

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.

I would like to thank Kyivans for their incredible hospitality they have shown during my staying in Ukraine.

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.

"An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from Sir Elton John's Collection" exhibition was opened in the PinchukArtCentre.

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
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.

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.
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.
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 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.

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.
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).

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 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.

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.

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.
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