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Exhibition of student works
📅 Exhibition dates: 27 September – 5 October 2025
📍 Location: Main Post Office Building, 1 Slovatska Street (entrance from Kopernika Street)
Department of Puppet Theatre Arts, Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
This is a unique creative centre where future actors, directors and set designers of puppet theatre study together in one workshop. The department was founded in 2005 on the initiative of L. P. Popov as the "Department of Acting and Puppet Theatre Directing". Since 2011, it has been training set designers for puppet theatre. The department employs leading specialists in acting, directing and set design for puppet theatre — renowned artists both in Ukraine and abroad.
The educational process covers all stages of creating a performance: from developing the artistic concept and technology for producing the material part to the rehearsal process and premiere on stage.
Student works are not only shown on the stage of the university's training theatre, but also tested on the stages of professional puppet theatres. They take part in numerous international projects, festivals, workshops and student exchange programmes.
This year alone, students participated in exchange programmes in the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Bulgaria.
Today, the department combines classical forms of puppet theatre with contemporary experimental practices aimed at expanding the creative possibilities of this art form and integrating Ukrainian artists into the global cultural space.
Anastasia Zhuravleva
Vladyslav Sentsov
Maria Chornoshkur
Angelina Pakos
Lviv National Academy of Arts
Department of Monumental Painting. Additional specialisation in Scenography (Minor)
In 2022, the Lviv National Academy of Arts opened up a new opportunity for bachelor's programme students — minor specialisations, i.e. additional educational programmes that allow them to broaden their professional trajectory. One of the first and most notable of these is the two-year minor programme in scenography, which was launched that same year on the initiative of Natalia Rudenko-Kraievska, associate professor in the Department of Monumental Painting and scenographer.
The minor in Scenography is focused on the specialised training of scenographers with a new, forward-thinking approach, capable of generating new ideas based on modern scientific achievements, contemporary information technologies and artistic practice. The programme contributes to the formation of creative personalities capable of solving specialised tasks and practical problems in the field of scenography, which involves the application of theories and methods specific to theatre arts based on a synthetic artistic and design approach.
The exhibition features works from the course project "The Cage" based on the play by O. Kostinsky as part of the discipline "Scenographic Modelling" (second semester) of the minor "Scenography" of the Department of MZ LNAM. The aim of the discipline is to continue developing ways of thinking about the expression of dramatic space, as well as skills in working with various materials on a large scale: wood, metal, fabric, etc., in the process of creating a model of scenographic space — a theatrical model — in accordance with the chosen dramaturgy, taking into account the transformation of events.
The two-act chamber play "The Cage" by Ukrainian screenwriter and playwright Oleksandr Kostynsky was written in the 1980s. It raises questions of inner freedom, personal choice, protest and conformism, fear and courage, dependence on circumstances and the courage to change them.
According to the playwright's idea, the action takes place in a cage (one location) at an unspecified time. Three bird characters, who found themselves locked in a confined space under different circumstances, reflect on their hopeless situation in different ways, and in the finale, when it becomes possible to be free, not all of them choose freedom.
Alina Lysak, Sofia-Daryna Syplyva, Viola Cherkas, Daryna Kostyshyn, Solomiya Sereda
Department of Scenography and Multimedia, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
It is an educational space that combines fundamental traditions and bold experiments, where students master the art of creating a compositionally coherent visual space for theatre, cinema and multimedia.
The department teaches layout design, stage technology and techniques, and costume modelling in space. Students implement talented artistic solutions: models, sketches of decorations, sketches of costumes, film sketches. For a long time, the educational process at the theatre and decoration department was associated with the creative and pedagogical activities of Professor D. D. Lider. In 1975–1980 and 1990–2001, he headed the department, as well as the educational and creative workshop of scenography, which he founded. In the scenography workshop, Professor Danylo Lider formed the principles of educational and creative work with students. Its essence was to conduct lectures and discussions aimed at identifying the individual characteristics of each student, developing the ability to comprehend dramaturgical material and discover the conceptual meaning of stage versions embodied in scenographic ideas.
In 2004, the Department of Scenography and Screen Arts was established on the basis of the Theatre and Decorative Arts Department. Andriy Aleksandrovich, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, was invited to head it.
Currently, the department retains the structure of creative workshops, but the teaching staff has been renewed. The department is now headed by Lyudmyla Nahorna, Honoured Artist of Ukraine (acting head of the department), who also runs one of the creative workshops. Another workshop is run by Serhii Masloboychikov, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, Associate Professor, Academician. The third workshop is headed by renowned set designer Andrii Romanchenko, who enrolled in the first year this year. In addition, lecturer Daniila Kolot recently graduated a very successful bachelor's course, and talented set designer Oleh Tatarynov has joined the teaching team.
Alina Kulyk
Sofia Zatsepa
Iryna Rallo
Maria Grabchenko
Sofia Lebedynska
Polina Buchyna
Anna Pavelko
