EXHIBITION: PHARMACY OF THE HEAVENS
OPENING: 05/06/2026, 18.30, Artsvit Gallery, 21a Krutohirny descent, Dnipro (entrance through the glass doors from Uspenska Square).
ARTSVIT GALLERY invites you to the opening of the exhibition project Pharmacy of the Heavens — a collaborative work by Dnipro-based artists, painter Volodymyr Gabuda and sound artist Oleksandr Suprun. Combining painting, poetry, and a spatial audio installation, the exhibition will run until August 8, 2026.
Curator: Oleksandra Shovkun.
Pharmacy of the Heavens continues a long-term artistic project that Volodymyr Gabuda has been developing over the past several years. This new cycle emerges as the next chapter following the exhibition Mutations, presented in 2025 at the Dnipro Art Museum. As the artist notes, the project evolves gradually — through separate fragments, like a book written in process. While Mutations focused on trauma as a protective reaction and on unconscious mechanisms of resistance, Pharmacy of the Heavens turns to a condition in which the traumatic transformations of reality have already become part of everyday life, requiring conscious “healing” actions.
At the core of the project lies the idea of space as a multiple and unstable environment where fear, exhaustion, movement, and hope coexist simultaneously. The artist raises the question of responsibility for one’s own response: whether we are capable of resisting automatic impulses and acting consciously, without intensifying the darkness around us. Pharmacy of the Heavens speaks about the necessity of coexisting with this reality — without escaping from it and without reflexively reproducing violence — and invites the viewer to move from the experience of trauma and darkness toward the search for inner support and forms of resistance.
In his practice, the artist turns to dreams, memories, and uncanny images that shape a personal mythological space. The works do not form a linear narrative; rather, they are fragments of internal states intertwined according to the logic of dreams. The poetry presented in the exhibition adds another layer of perception to this space.
An important part of the exhibition is the collaboration between Volodymyr Gabuda and Oleksandr Suprun, whom the artist met during the DCCC residency Imaginary City in 2024. In the audio installation created specifically for the exhibition, Oleksandr Suprun works with a three-channel sound composition: each audio track corresponds to a separate part of the exhibition, yet all of them sound simultaneously and shift depending on the viewer’s movement through the space. In this way, the visitor becomes an active participant in the audiovisual experience, influencing their own perception of the exhibition. This principle reinforces the exhibition’s central idea — the importance of perspective, awareness, and the ability to direct one’s focus within a constantly transforming reality.
Curator Oleksandra Shovkun notes that Pharmacy of the Heavens is less an exploration of trauma than an attempt to reflect on how a person coexists with traumatic reality and what forms of inner movement make it possible not to remain trapped within darkness. The project reflects on resilience, inner movement, and the search for forces that allow a person not to act automatically, but instead to consciously focus on what helps them not to lose themselves.
Volodymyr Gabuda was born in 1990 in Dnipro. He works with painting, graphics, and poetry. He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Theatre and Art College with a degree in Fine Arts. A key principle of his practice is the integrity of his own mythological space, shaped by uncanny memories and imagination. He lives and works in Dnipro.
Oleksandr Suprun, born in 1999 in Dnipro, is a sound artist and member of the independent experimental scene, known under the alias Trancedænce. In his music, he combines methods of free improvisation, psychedelia, noise, schizoanalysis, and situationism. Each musical session is unique and seeks to convey the atmosphere of its surroundings and the context in which it unfolds. He lives and works in Dnipro.
Design: Alla Sorochan.