The Assembly Scheme project focuses on the phenomenon of the Kyiv Institute of Automation. The exhibition brings together 60 artists representing a self-organised community of artists, which is a living organism that develops and transforms, triggering new ideas and reflections of the artists.
The art hub emerged spontaneously in the building of the Kyiv Institute of Automation, located at 22 Nahirna Street. Over 120 artists rented workshops within the art space of the Institute of Automation (Instytut Avtomatyky). The activity of the art hub was aimed at finding forms and means of artistic expression, developing the local art community, creative initiatives and interaction with the space of the Kyiv Institute of Automation.
Over the years, the art space provided an environment for the constant exchange of experience between artists. Self-organised shows in the participants’ workshops were formed into the “Open Workshop Day”. The first artists joined the space back in 2016, but the community actually declared itself on 19 October 2019, when the first Open Workshop Day was launched. The pandemic has significantly affected the activities of the community. With the onset of the full-scale invasion, many artists were relocated. Instead, a residency for artists from Germany was created on the territory of the Institute. All this is an evidence of the transformation of the community, which has transcended the boundaries of a purely local phenomenon.
The exhibition at the M17 CAC has no chronological sequence and serves as a type of model for an assembly: a symbolic scheme where a set of elements, details, events, is assembled in the viewer’s perception into a coherent structure.
The exhibition on the ground floor of M17 will feature artworks by the following artists:Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Maksym Mazur, Sabina Magnitofon, Molly Route, Sana Shakhmuradova, Oleksandr Morhatskyi, Natalia Kolesnyk, Maria Vlas, Oleksandr Melashko, Yulia Boychuk, Roman Pedan, Olha Zaremba, Maria Drobot, Vladyslav Riaboshtan, Nazar Ivaniuk, Kristina Zakharchuk, Alyona Shtepurka, Lida Moroz, Leonid Kholodnytskyi, Zakhar Shevchuk, Ihor Seliemieniev, Lisnyak Zhenya, Anya Naduda, Halya Andrusenko, Dziuba Radyslav, Yehor Antsyhin, Anya Luhovska, Yulia Petrova, Vitaliy Kokhan, Olena Pronkina, Halyna Abramova, Marta Nyrkova, Polina Shcherbyna, Andriy Davydenko, Masha Leonova, Elis, Yura Pikul, Anton Sayenko, Serhii Kondratiuk, Natalia Kurnosova, Yuliia Kyrychenko, Liza Zhdanova, Mykyta Hladkykh, Lana Kyryliuk, Maria Matiienko, Tania Kornieieva, Olya Moskovchenko, Andriy Naboka, Ruslan Ivashchenko, Vlad Filonenko, Dmytro Tarasenko, Ellina Іva, Anna Mirbach, Zhenya Lisnyak, Sasha Mazurok.
Curatorial team: Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Maksym MazurAdministrative team: Marta Nyrkova, Molly Route, Sabina Magnitofon
The exhibition on the upper floor is expected to feature exposition changes, which will be announced further on the M17 media resources.

"The exhibition "Assembly Scheme" at M17 is a research project that allows us not only to learn more about the art community of the Kyiv Institute of Automation and the artists but also provides extremely valuable material for art researchers and art critics who will study this phenomenon. For the project at M17, we did not invite external curators, but turned directly to the artists of Nahirna 22 to self-organise and create a curatorial group that would present the community's achievements within the walls of the M17 institution."Natalia Shpytkovska, director of the M17 CAC
"This project is our way of telling about our community that was based on Kyiv Institute of Automation. A place where very different artists found refuge. About the history of the building, which influenced us as we influenced it. A conversation about the artist, their work and the search for their own place in the context of Ukrainian art."Svitlana Ahranovska, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project
"After I moved to Kyiv, the community of the Institute of Automation made me feel at home in a completely unfamiliar place."Yuriy Bolsa, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project
"The Institute was empty when we moved in, like a Soviet-era architectural monument. When Ruslan Ivashchenko and I realised this, the action was obvious... to make a post on Facebook, and that's where it all started."Oleksandr Bohomaz, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project, one of the first artists of the Kyiv Institute of Automation
"To become a powerful art space despite the Covid and the war shows the great potential of the community. And we have no intention of stopping."Nikita Vlasov, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project
"Randomness is a fundamental method of work that allows me to create and capture something unique and unexpected for me personally. Processes that do not obey strict rules and expectations also take place within our team, which has emerged situationally. Uncertainty and unpredictability become obvious conditions, which means that order is minimal if it exists at all."Andriy Pidlisnyi, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project
"When you enter an artist's studio, sometimes you get the feeling that everything around you is a total installation made by the author. The objects brought and placed in the space in a certain way are included in the context of a specific laboratory process. The way the artist demonstrates their art in their own studio seems to shift the focus from contemplating the finished art product to the process itself."Maksym Mazur, curator of the "Assembly Scheme" project

The exhibition project encompasses a permanent exposition within the stated project period, and a temporary section, as well as a series of concurrent art events.
The exhibition on the ground floor of M17 will feature artworks by the following artists:Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Maksym Mazur, Sabina Magnitofon, Molly Route, Sana Shakhmuradova, Oleksandr Morhatskyi, Natalia Kolesnyk, Maria Vlas, Oleksandr Meleshko, Yulia Boychuk, Roman Pedan, Olha Zaremba, Maria Drobot, Vladyslav Riaboshtan, Nazar Ivaniuk, Kristina Zakharchuk, Alyona Shtepurka, Lida Moroz, Leonid Kholodnytskyi, Zakhar Shevchuk, Ihor Seliemieniev, Lisnyak Zhenya, Anya Naduda, Halya Andrusenko, Dziuba Radyslav, Yehor Antsyhin, Anya Luhovska, Yulia Petrova, Vitaliy Kokhan, Olena Pronkina, Halyna Abramova, Marta Nyrkova, Polina Shcherbyna, Andriy Davydenko, Masha Leonova, Elis, Yura Pikul, Anton Sayenko, Serhii Kondratiuk, Natalia Kurnosova, Yuliia Kyrychenko, Liza Zhdanova, Mykyta Hladkykh, Lana Kyryliuk, Maria Matiienko, Tania Kornieieva, Olya Moskovchenko, Andriy Naboka, Ruslan Ivashchenko, Vlad Filonenko, Dmytro Tarasenko, Ellina Іva, Anna Mirbach, Zhenya Lisnyak, Sasha Mazurok.
Curatorial team: Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Maksym Mazur
Administrative team: Marta Nyrkova, Molly Route, Sabina Magnitofon

The Art Pop-Up programme includes: – master classes;– DJ;– photographer.
Take a chance to collect Nahirna22 and M17 Contemporary Art Center souvenirs and art catalogues for a donation, they will make a perfect art gift.
Among the artists who will participate in the event:
Oleksandr Bohomaz, Yelyzaveta Mazur, Sabina Magnitofon, Molly Route, Natalia Kolesnyk, Maria Vlas, Oleksandr Meleshko, Yuliya Boychuk, Liza Zhdanova, Maria Matiienko, Andriy Naboka, Vlad Filonenko, Marta Nyrkova, Dmytro Tarasenko, Lida Moroz, Zakhar Shevchuk, Zhenya Lisnyak, Radyslav Dziuba, Yuliya Petrova, Nazar Ivaniuk, Yuriy Pikul, Sasha Mazurok, Serhiy Kondratiuk, Aliona Shlapak, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Vladyslav Riaboshtan.
At the Art Pop-Up, you contribute to a good cause: part of the funds raised at the event will be transferred to the Zgraya Foundation.
The Art Pop-Up will start at 3 pm. We are looking forward to seeing you at M17 CAC! 102-104 Antonovycha St., Kyiv city, Ukraine