Lesia Vasylchenko has been awarded the main 2025 Pinchuk Art Centre Prize. She will receive ₴400,000 and will be automatically shortlisted for the next edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
Speaking on their decision to award Lesia Vasylchenko with the prize, the jury lauded her ‘physically impressive while poetic work that elegantly creates a study of the Ukrainian sky – a symbol that in this realization becomes simultaneously a space of longing, trauma and hope.’
Kateryna Aliinyk won the first special prize and Yevhen Korshunov won the second special prize and public prize award. They will each receive ₴100,000 and financial support for internships, further education, residencies or a new production. An additional special recognition outside the competition was dedicated to the Ukrainian artist Veronika Kozhushko who died in a Russian missile strike in 2024 at the age of 18.
Now in its 8th edition, the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize is a biennial contemporary art award for Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger.
Works by the 20 shortlisted artists for the prize are on view at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, through 13 July.
