On April 23, 2026, at 16:00, the opening of the “Values” exhibition — a joint project of the Museum and Lobortas Classic Jewellery House — will take place at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
Location: Kyiv, 27 Lavrska Street, Main Building of the War Museum (the “Motherland Monument”).
The exhibition runs from April 24, 2026.
The “Values” exhibition brings together a collection of sculptural compositions in small-scale plastic art, in which historical memory, national archetypes, and the experience of the modern war form a unified artistic space. At its core are the foundational concepts for Ukrainian identity: freedom, dignity, memory, responsibility, continuity of tradition, and the ability to resist. The project reveals these values through the language of contemporary sculpture and jewelry plastic art.
The compositional center of the exhibition is a modern reinterpretation of the “Motherland Monument” sculpture as one of the most famous monumental symbols of Ukraine. Transferring its image into the format of small-scale plastic art changes the distance of perception: the symbol acquires a human scale and moves into the plane of direct dialogue with the viewer.
Around the central image, a cohesive series of sculptures is formed that combine state symbolism, Cossack epic, and figures of the newest Ukrainian resistance. The key idea of the exhibition is the continuity of the national strength of the Ukrainian people — from the Cossack era to the present day. The hero from the past and the modern defender appear as links in a single historical process, in which the forms of struggle change, but the inner foundations remain.
The project gains particular expressiveness from the combination of historical images and the realities of the modern war. In the artistic language of the exhibition, alongside the saber appears the Javelin, and next to Cossack images — figures of the modern struggle. In individual compositions, fragments and pieces of the aggressor’s weapons, which once carried a threat, are rethought as part of the artistic form, acquiring new meaning.
The chamber format of the exposition focuses attention on each work, enhancing the effect of personal perception. All sculptural compositions were created under the conditions of a full-scale war and reflect the experience of the time — as a direct reality that shapes the artistic language. “Values” emerge as a holistic statement about Ukrainian identity, continuity, and inner resilience.
