About 700 posters by authors from 49 countries
were submitted to the poster campaign “Nuclear Scar: Past · Present · Future”

We did not organize a competition; we did not determine the winners. For us, the main thing was to remember the tragic event of 40 years ago and try to extrapolate Chornobyl to today. Each curator, who is a designer and a university professor from different countries, selected works and will independently organize exhibitions.

265 posters by professionals and 147 student works were selected.
A total of 285 authors.
The final lists, according to the terms, will be published on April 26. But several small preliminary exhibitions have already opened in Dresden, Lviv, Montreal, Potsdam, and Berlin.

These are exhibitions as part of various events dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Chоrnobyl, which are organized by most Ukrainian public organizations abroad in public city spaces. This is what we were counting on. Small exhibitions in various public places – university galleries, churches, libraries, etc. where the display of our posters covers a large audience of ordinary citizens, and not only art lovers, is enhanced by the synergy of various actions (speech, readings, conversations, performances, meetings with eyewitnesses). All together reinforce each other and more vividly remind us of the catastrophic events of the past, making us think about the dangerous and tragic present.

In Kharkiv, at the Academy of Art and Design (KSADA), we opened an exhibition of about 100 posters. Another exhibition of posters from our collection is to be a part of the Book Arsenal in Kyiv.

We are currently working on a catalog of the poster action, which is being prepared in digital format, and if necessary, a printed version may also be published.

The number of posters at the exhibitions will depend on the premises and exhibition conditions.