Lviv Palace of Arts

Lviv Palace of Arts was founded in 1996. The Palace has the largest exposition space in Ukraine of 3.600 sqm. The total space equals to 8.700 sqm. Dimensions of the 11 exposition halls that ar

Lviv Palace of Arts has an established history of large scale projects and unique exhibitions. The Palace hosted an unparalleled exhibition of an outstanding graphic artist of ukrainian origin Yaakov Hnizdovskyy. His works can be found in the most renowned US Museums, i.e. National Museum of American Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, White House Collection, Rockefeller Memorial Collection and Woodward’s Gallery. Artist’s paintings travelled across Latin America, Japan, India and other parts of the world with the exposition of Modern American Graphics.

Along with artists of the highest calibre Lviv Palace of Arts presents artists new to the art scene from art schools of Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania. Owing to our promotional efforts fine art connoisseurs have discovered outstanding talents of Y. Lysyk, K. Zvirynskyy, Z. Flint and H. Yakutovich, etc.

Lviv Palace of Arts is a regional platform for collaboration and partnership between numerous organisations from Ukraine and abroad. A number of exhibitions were developed in collaboration with the National Ukrainian Artists Society, Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts and Lviv College of Applied & Decorative Arts. Some of these projects have grown into regular cultural events, for instance “Textile Shale-oil”, “Lviv Gobelin (tapestry)”, “Lviv Ceramics”, etc. Lviv Arts Palace maintains strong connections with well known ukrainian artists from Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolayiv, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr, Donetsk.

Traditionally very fruitful cooperation is established with our partners from Poland. In 2009 Lviv Palace of Arts hosted an exhibition “Herbert: portraits & author portraits from the writer’s archive (1924-1998)” that finalized the Year of Zbigniev Herbert declared by