FUTURESPECTIVE 2025

Starting July 4, a large-scale exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art and fashion photography titled FUTURESPECTIVE opens at the M17 Contemporary Art Center in Kyiv. The exhibition is initiated by the editorial team of Vogue Ukraine with the support of the global platform PhotoVogue.

The project has been extended until September 28, 2025.

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The exhibition focuses on contemporary art photography and presents works by the finalists of the PhotoVogue and Vogue Ukraine FUTURESPECTIVE Open Call.

Participating artists:
Vladyslav Andrievsky, Vic Bakin, Lesha Berezovskiy, Mishka Bochkarev, Ania Brudna, Alex Blanco, Vasylyna Vrublevska, Daniel Vaysberg, Ira Vashchenko, Genia Volkov, Artem Humilevskyi, Nazar Furyk, Egor Guschin, Vadym Ivchenko, Yourko Kalichack, Ksenia Kargina, Danyil Kotliar, Olia Koval, Sasha Kurmaz, Anastasiia Leliuk, Ira Lupu, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei, Dom Marker, Mykola Maychyk, Anna October, Yegor Parker, Anatoliy Petchenko, Kristina Podobed, Oleksiy Ponomaryov, Alina Prisich, Julie Poly, Viacheslav Poliakov, Irina Shkoda, Elena Subach, Synchrodogs, Daria Svertilova, Anya Tsaruk, Jan Wasiuchnik.

This year’s theme – “Reflections on the Future” – explores how the younger generation perceives and imagines what lies ahead. From over 300 submissions, the Vogue Ukraine team curated a shortlist that was presented to an international jury of photographers, curators, and art directors. The exhibition features selected works and is on view from July 4 to September 28, 2025, in Kyiv, and will be in London in September. One of the finalists was granted a special commission to be published in the 2025 print edition of Vogue Ukraine.

The show brings together the works of 39 photographers – both established names and emerging talents. Their practices span various genres and techniques, blending art and fashion photography with multimedia formats that include video, text, and spatial installation. The featured projects explore themes of coming of age and youth’s hopes amid war, generational rifts, identity searches, and historical memory. Seen together, these photo and video works offer a visual portrait of a generation that speaks of the present with a rare sensitivity and strength. FUTURESPECTIVE aims to support and promote Ukrainian photographers on the international art and fashion scenes.

“What message are we conveying through this exhibition? It’s not about photography in a futuristic style — first and foremost, it’s about people. The main goal was to bring together and present a circle of photographic artists who are shaping the present, culture, and, of course, the future,” — Marta Bertman, curator of the FUTURESPECTIVE exhibition project and Creative Director of Vogue Ukraine.

The jury of the PhotoVogue and Vogue Ukraine FUTURESPECTIVE Open Call included:

ALESSIA GLAVIANO, Head Of Global PhotoVogue, Director Of The PhotoVogue Festival

A renowned photo critic, Glaviano began her career in 2001 at Vogue Italia and quickly rose from photo editor to visual director of the publication. In early 2022, with the global relaunch of PhotoVogue, she became the head of the initiative. Alessia regularly lectures at prestigious universities and institutions and participates in the jury of international competitions such as World Press Photo and the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères.

EZRA PETRONIO AND LANA PETRUSEVYCH, Art Directors, Petronio Associates

Ezra Petronio and Lana Petrusevych are among the most influential art directors of our time. At Petrionio Associates and digital agency Content Matters they focus on the visual language and strategy of brands. Among their clients are Saint Laurent, Alaïa, Lanvin, Gucci, Victoria Beckham, and Fendi. Over the past few decades, Ezra has collaborated with the most prominent talents in the industry, from Karl Lagerfeld to Phoebe Philo and Jil Sander. He is also an experienced photographer shooting and directing editorial and commercial projects.

RAUL MARTINEZ, Global Creative Director, Condé Nast

The distinguished American art director began his career at the publishing house Condé Nast in 1988. Eight years later, he founded his own creative and branding agency, AR New York, whose clients included Valentino, Calvin Klein and YSL. He worked as the creative director of Victoria’s Secret and Co. Last year, Raul Martinez took on the position of Global Creative Director at Condé Nast, where he is responsible for the visual language of all international editions of Vogue, working on covers and notable projects. He received a National Magazine Award for his photographic work.

BJORN GELDHOF, Artistic Director Of PinchukArtCentre

Formerly an independent curator, editor and manager of the art and culture magazine Janus, Belgian Bjorn Geldhof has worked in Kyiv since 2009. He curated numerous international projects, including the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, the exhibition “This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom” at the 2022 Biennale, and the Future Generation Art Prize exhibitions in Venice (2011, 2013, 2017, 2019). Geldhof has collaborated with many prominent artists, including Damian Ortega, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramović.

VENA BRYKALIN, Editor-In-Chief Of Vogue Ukraine

Vena Brykalin was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Ukraine in May 2023. In this position, he develops the publication’s unique visual style and strengthens the brand’s position on the international stage. Last year, Brykalin was included in the ranking of the most influential people in the industry according to the Business of Fashion BoF 500.

BRETT LLOYD, Photographer

British photographer Brett Lloyd contributes to many international editions of Vogue and has worked with Dior, Louis Vuitton, Moncler, Calvin Klein, and Fendi. In 2014, Lloyd released his debut edition Scugnizzi, and 8 years later published Napoli, Napoli, Napoli, in which he masterfully documented vibrant Neapolitan life. At the invitation of Vogue Ukraine in late 2023 and early 2024, he visited Ukraine. Lloyd photographed front-line and relatively peaceful cities and made portraits of military members and civilians. The resulting portfolio Ukraine Today was published in the magazine and was showcased in Paris and Kyiv.

MARTA BERTMAN, Creative Director, Vogue Ukraine

Head of the Futurespective initiative, in 2022-2023, Marta Bertman curated Art on the Battlefront. Bringing together Ukrainian and international artists to inform the global community about the Russian invasion of Ukraine the project resulted in a group show at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna. Bertman produced a large-scale shoot by British photographer Brett Lloyd in wartime Ukraine and curated an exhibition of his photographs in Paris and Kyiv.

CARLIJN JACOBS, Photographer

Dutch photographer and art director Carlijn Jacobs draws inspiration from the visual language of surrealism, creating expressive avant-garde images at the crossroads of art and fashion. She studied photography at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. Her first solo show Sleeping Beauty opened at FOAM in Amsterdam in 2023. Jacobs collaborates regularly with Vogue, Self Service and System magazines. Her commercial clients include Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Prada.

PETER DOROSHENKO, Curator And Director Of The Ukrainian Museum In New York

Over 35-year career, Doroshenko organized over 200 shows and exhibitions, including those of Ukrainian artists Oleksandra Exter, Borys Mykhaylov, Yelena Yemchuk and Lesya Khomenko. He headed the Dallas Contemporary Museum in Texas, the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK. In 2007, 2009, and 2017, Doroshenko served as the commissioner of the Ukrainian national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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M17 Work Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00–20:00 (Monday – closed)

Admission fees:

Full price ticket = 150 UAH

Concessions = 100 UAH

Tickets can be purchased at the M17 CAC.

This project is implemented by Vogue UA in partnership with M17 Contemporary Art Center, ABT Bavaria, and KERNEL.

Curator — Marta Bertman

Exhibition architecture — FORMA studio

Director of M17 CAC — Natalia Shpytkovska

Vogue is a multiplatform title that views the wider world through the lens of fashion, wields unparalleled influence, and bears a commitment to values of inclusivity, creativity and community. Along the way Vogue has engaged a legendary list of collaborators, from photographers such as Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn and Annie Leibovitz to writers like Joan Didion and Truman Capote to artists Salvatore Dalí, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton and more.

M17 Contemporary Art Center is a cultural institution that functions as an educational and research platform, an exhibition venue for Ukrainian and foreign contemporary art. The activities of the Center are aimed at creating a dialogue space for professional circles and all the representatives of the culture sector as a whole, at study and research of contemporary and related historical cultural processes. M17 supports art experiments, collaborations and international exchanges of experts, artists from various art fields, in order to integrate Ukrainian art into the world context.

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KERNEL – a global leader in the production and export of sunflower oil and grains. The company provides support for the realization of a new photographic project by one of the finalists of the “Special Perspective” nomination.