The Kazimir Malevich Art Award 2025 for Stanislav Turina
On 15 November 2025, the Kazimir Malevich Art Award ceremony was held at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The winner was Stanislav Turina – an artist, writer, lecturer, curator, and co-founder of Kyiv-based art studio atelienormalno. The award serves as a platform for dialogue and artistic exchange in times of profound social and political change.
Stanislav Turina – laureate of the 2025 award, creator involved in artistic and social projects
The Kazimir Malevich Art Award is a biennial award given to contemporary Ukrainian artists since 2008. Its goal is to build lasting cooperation based on civic principles between Poland and Ukraine in the field of contemporary art. Past laureates include, among others: Alevtyna Kachidze (2008), Stas Volazlovsky (2010), Zhanna Kadyrova (2012), Lada Nakonechna (2014), Nikita Kadan (2016), Ivan Svitlychnyi (2018), and Sasha Kurmaz (2020).
The 2025 award winner, Stanislav Turina, lives and works in Kyiv. He studied at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, participated in the Writing as Research course at the Method Fund in 2021 and in Larysa Venediktova’s Micro-University class in 2020. He is a co-founder of Precarnia, a centre for neurotypical and neurodiverse artists, as well as co-founder, co-curator, and artist of the atelienormalno studio, gathering persons with and without Down syndrome. He was also a co-founder and member of the Open Group collective from 2013 to 2019.
The Kazimir Malevich Art Award – history and significance for Polish-Ukrainian cooperation
In 2025 the Kazimir Malevich Art Award 2025 has returned after five years. It is open to Ukrainian artists up to the age of 45, regardless of their place of residence; collectives were also allowed to compete. The award may be granted to artists of all disciplines, whose practice is characterised by quality, originality, significance, and contribution to the development of contemporary art.
An international jury, which considered 57 applications from various European countries, selected three finalists: OPEN GROUP, Kateryna Lysovenko, and Stanislav Turina. The final winner was Stanislav Turina, who received a cash prize of EUR 5,000 from the Polish Institute in Kyiv and an invitation to artistic residency in 2026 at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, organised in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The jury included experts from Poland and Ukraine: Jarosław Godun (Polish Institute in Kyiv), Anna Lazar (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art), Olga Wysocka (Adam Mickiewicz Institute), Alevtyna Kakhidze, Sasha Kurmaz, Daniel Muzyczuk (Museum of Art in Lodz), Olesia Ostrovska-Lyuta (Arsenał Sztuki), Tetiana Filevska (Ukrainian Institute), Monika Szewczyk (Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok).
The award was officially presented in a ceremonial setting. The award ceremony was hosted by Vitalii Azhnov, who played the lead role in the biographical film “Malevich” (2024, dir. Daria Onyshchenko), and the musical setting was provided by the ethno-electronic band Mavka. The National Art Museum of Ukraine also presented an exhibition of works by artists affiliated with the Kyiv Art Institute, who in the 1920s and early 1930s created art in the spirit of the avant-garde (among others, Lev Kramarenko, Leonila Hrytsenko, Mykola Yanchuk).
Organisers and partners of the Kazimir Malevich Art Award 2025: Polish Institute in Kyiv, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ukrainian Institute, Museum of Art in Lodz, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, and National Art Museum of Ukraine.
