Social responsibility

Stedley Art Foundation was founded in 2011 as a private initiative. The Foundation’s mission is the fostering of Ukraine’s rich historical cultural process development, promoting Ukrainian artists and their projects, enlivening transnational cultural exchanges, and showcasing a positive image of the country’s art on the international art scene.

The Stedley Art Foundation presented in 2020 Alexander Zhyvotkov’s Project – “Keep the Roots”; where the artist creatively re-interprets and examines ancient cultural symbols and as a result they suddenly become relevant to the life we live today while keeping their ancient meaning.

The significant Alexander Zhyvotkov project “Tablets”. The artist dedicated it to the culture and traditions of Georgia.

In 2016 Alexander Zhyvotkov created “Anno Domini”. In 2019 the artwork was donated to the Vatican. Following the instructions from Pope Francis the crucifix was exhibited at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

In January 2018 Stedley Art Foundation together with the National Gallery of Georgia presented a solo exhibition of Alexander Zhyvokotv ‘Cardboard. Wood. Stone’.

The exhibition marks a landmark event in the art history of independent Ukraine, because for the first time over fifty works of Ukrainian contemporary artist were presented in a foreign state museum.

Stedley Art Foundation started the 2017 expositional year with project ‘The Eight’, which presents works of the eight Ukrainian avant-garde artists. All works earlier used to be part of Igor Dychenko's collection.

The exhibition ‘Epiphany Diary’ by Alexander Dubovik who is the member of the Ukrainian “sixtiers” art-generation. The exhibition presents the sketches of mosaics and stained-glass windows created by the artist in the 80's.

Trip to Egypt by Alexander Sukholit. Artworks at this exhibition was based on the plastic perception of Egyptian sculpture and relief.

The exhibition 'Radiant Image' by Hryhorii Havrylenko presents drawings from the collection of Oleksii Vasylenko. These laconic and expressive painters in pencil, watercolours and ink, linocuts and pastels together form the core of Havrylenko's art – the search of a “radiant image” is the epitome of absolute womanhood and ideal plastic formula.

The ‘Land’ project by Alexander Sukholit presented by a series of graphic works and sculptures ‘Adam’s Dream’ illustrates the development of one of several important storylines of Sukholit’s art. It is about the appearance of a human dimension in space, about the separation of a human and the Earth, about jealousy, fratricide and repentance, about the pain that is caused by cognition and about the art born by the desire to cease this pain.