The project reveals the Ukrainian vision of will through the prism of artists' works. Today, it is the will that helps the Ukrainian people to accumulate the strength for a victorious struggle, and it is precisely this idea that contemporary Ukrainian and international artists have been working on to be presented at the exhibition.
The artworks represented at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine were created by:Andriy Bochka, Matvii Vaisberg, Yurii Vakulenko, Oleg Veklenko, Solomiia Gorobiuk, Magdalena Gryska, Serhii Zapadnia, Oleksii Ivaniuk, Iryna Kalenyk, Viktoriia Kartashova, Dmytro Kozatskyi, Anatoly Kryvolap, Maria Levytska, Volodymyr Lesnyak, Anton Logov, Pavlo Makov, Lyubomyr Medvid, Serhiy Mykhalchuk, Roman Minin, Olga Petrova, Ed Potapenkov, Serhii Revika, Olesya Trofimenko, Radoslav Charkovskyi, and Daniil Shumikhin.
An important part of the programme of events in the NAA of Ukraine is a series of documentary short films "Culture vs War" by the "Watch Ukrainian!" association, which tells the story of famous Ukrainian artists who rose up to defend Ukraine.The slogan of the project is "To be free to create", the statement that embodies the central idea of artistic reflections united in the Concentration of the Will. (Directed by Kadim Tarasov; Director of Photography – Yuriy Gruzinov; Producer – Andriy Rizol).
The architectural design solution for the exhibition space at the NAA of Ukraine was designed by the architect Oleksandr Burlaka exclusively for the opening of the project.
In the first hours, the exhibition was attended by many people. Among them were Rostyslav Karandieiev, First Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Dmytro Kozatskyi, Ukrainian photographer and fighter of the Azov Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine, and film and music producer Andriy Rizol.
The Vice-Presidents of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine Oles Sanin and Yuriy Vakulenko, curators of the exhibition Andriy Sydorenko and Ira Iatsyk, as well as special guests, delivered welcoming speeches, emphasising the importance of staging a large-scale exhibition project such as the Concentration of the Will during the time of war.