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RUKH ART HUB

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Rukh Art Hub is a Ukrainian contemporary art space aimed to provide its guests with unique art experiences and foster the local art community through hosting curated conceptual art shows, panel discussions, artist talks, charity projects, film screenings Ukrainian contemporary and fine art initiative in New York

Our Mission:
To give Ukrainian art a voice
To wow the American audience and the US ar

t scene with the beauty, quality, and versatility of Ukrainian art
To show Ukraine as a country that can overcome adversity, and come out a stronger, more fruitful, and beautiful nation

08/21/2026

Well, it’s time to share another piece of exciting news
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Rukh Art Hub is entering a new collaboration with Galerie Angelina Angelina Art Gallery in Montréal, and on September 10 we are opening BETWEEN TWO SEAS, a group exhibition bringing together Ukrainian, Armenian, and Montréal-based artists.

Rukh will be presenting two artists:
Ave Libertatemaveamor and Anna Bondar

Rooted in folklore and the peasant imagination, Between Two Seas explores storytelling as a form of transformation. Dreamlike narratives move between real and imagined worlds, while the works themselves travel from atmospheric abstraction to embodied form, tracing connections between magic, memory, identity, and metamorphosis.

For us, this collaboration is also about creating new dialogues and bringing Ukrainian contemporary art into conversation with different cultures, histories, and artistic communities.

The exhibition is co-curated by Alexander Pidzamecky.

📍 Galerie Angelina, Montréal
📅 September 10 – October 8
🥂 Opening: September 10, 7–10 PM

Montréal, see you very soon! 🇨🇦

08/19/2026

Well, it’s time to share another piece of exciting news
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Rukh Art Hub is entering a new collaboration with Galerie Angelina in Montréal, and on September 10 we are opening BETWEEN TWO SEAS, a group exhibition bringing together Ukrainian, Armenian, and Montréal-based artists.

Rukh will be presenting two artists whose practices we deeply value: Maria Kulikovska and Ave Libertatemaveamor.
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Rooted in folklore and the peasant imagination, Between Two Seas explores storytelling as a form of transformation. Dreamlike narratives move between real and imagined worlds, while the works themselves travel from atmospheric abstraction to embodied form, tracing connections between magic, memory, identity, and metamorphosis.
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For us, this collaboration is also about creating new dialogues and bringing Ukrainian contemporary art into conversation with different cultures, histories, and artistic communities.

The exhibition is co-curated by Alexander Pidzamecky.

📍 Galerie Angelina, Montréal Angelina Art Gallery
📅 September 10 – October 8
🥂 Opening: September 10, 7–10 PM

Montréal, see you very soon! 🇨🇦

RSVP
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/entre-deux-mers-exposition-collective-tickets-1997634500566

08/18/2026

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of our gallery’s leading artists, Polina Kuznetsova, a multidisciplinary artist and screenwriter whose practice we deeply love and value.
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Polina’s work moves between very different emotional territories. In her paintings and performative works, she addresses complex and often painful themes connected to war, memory, and human experience. At the same time, she creates luminous, almost magical landscapes, works filled with depth and atmosphere that transform the spaces they inhabit.

Polina, we believe in you. We are with you, and we are truly happy to be part of this journey we are walking together.

Happy Birthday! 🤍

08/17/2026

Can You Sell $30K Worth of Art at a Single Saatchi Art Fair?
– Yes.

I may have written about Saatchi Art before, but over the past few months more than 2,000 artists have started following me, so I think it is worth returning to this topic and sharing what I have learned from my own experience.

Before opening my gallery, I worked as an artist manager. Part of my job was building and managing artists’ presence on international art marketplaces such as Artmajeur, Artfinder, Singulart, Artsy and, of course, Saatchi Art.

And yes, my artists made sales on all of them.

If you ask me whether an artist should be represented on several platforms, my answer is: ideally, yes.

Each platform has its own geography, audience, collectors and price range. Something that works beautifully for one artist may do absolutely nothing for another.

But there is one principle that connects all of them.

Consistency.

And this is exactly where many artists fail.

You open an account, upload your works, wait for a while, and when nothing magical happens, you eventually stop updating it.

Unfortunately, marketplaces don’t work this way.

And you cannot rely entirely on your gallerist either.

The role of a good gallerist is extremely important. A gallery builds your career, invests time, money and reputation into your work, presents you at exhibitions and art fairs, and introduces you to collectors, art advisors and institutions.

But representation does not guarantee monthly sales.

Your gallerist has other artists too 😁

You need additional sales channels of your own. Instagram and online art marketplaces should work alongside gallery representation, not instead of it.

Now, back to Saatchi Art.

I have personally participated in four editions of The Other Art Fair, managed artists on Saatchi Art, and seen what happens when an artist actually understands how to use this ecosystem strategically.

And yes, the $30K in the title is real.
Actually, I have another Saatchi Art sales story involving three paintings and $35K.
But I’ll leave the interesting part for the carousel 😁

Swipe through. I’m sharing the mechanisms that I know work from my own experience.

08/07/2026

We continue introducing the artists who are part of the Rukh Art Hub family.
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Today, we’d love to tell you about Vera Tolmacheva.

There are artists who spend most of their lives helping others discover their creative voice, and then one day decide it’s finally time to tell their own story. That is exactly Vera’s journey.
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For many years, she dedicated herself to teaching children, helping them uncover their talents and believe in themselves. Only four years ago did she fully devote herself to her own artistic practice. We couldn’t be happier that she made that decision.

Abstract art is not a typical direction within the Ukrainian academic art tradition, which is one of the reasons Vera’s work immediately captured our attention.

What we admire most is her remarkable ability to combine profound philosophical ideas with a sense of lightness. Every painting carries a deeper meaning, yet none of them feels heavy or difficult to understand. Instead, they invite you to slow down, spend time with them, and simply enjoy their presence.

Her paintings seem to reflect Vera herself. They are filled with optimism, inner light, and a rare sense of ease. They don’t demand attention. They quietly transform the space around them and become a natural part of it.

We invite you to explore Vera Tolmacheva’s work on our website.
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Who knows? You may discover that one of her paintings is exactly what your home has been waiting for.
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https://store.rukharthub.com/collections/vira-tolmacheva

08/04/2026

There is a question I hear from artists more often than any other.
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«Why aren’t collectors buying my work?»

It is an understandable question, but I have come to believe that it is the wrong one.

A more useful question might be:

How do collectors actually make decisions?

Over the past nine years, I have had the privilege of working with artists, collectors, galleries, art dealers, curators and institutions across Europe and the United States. One lesson has remained remarkably consistent: the purchase itself is only the visible end of a much longer process.

Most acquisitions begin long before money changes hands.

They begin with curiosity.

Then come trust, professional context, repeated encounters, conversations and, eventually, conviction.

The contemporary art market is often perceived as mysterious, even opaque. In reality, it follows patterns that become surprisingly clear once you spend enough time inside it.

This carousel is not intended as a guide to selling art.

It is an attempt to describe the ecosystem in which collectors make decisions and the many visible and invisible forces that shape those decisions.

I hope it offers artists not a formula, but a clearer understanding of the world their work enters once it leaves the studio.

I would be genuinely interested to know which part resonates with your own experience.
Maria Manuilenko
Founder & Curator, Rukh Art Hub

07/30/2026

Continuing our introduction to the artists of Survival Rituals, today we present Olga Ottenheijm Selyshcheva, a Ukrainian artist and independent curator based in Leiden, the Netherlands.
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For the exhibition at Basel Art Center during Basel Art Week, Olga presented her conceptual project “The End of Civilization as We Knew It.”
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The project brought together painting, a historical object, and graphic art to explore a moment of transition between the familiar world and a new digital civilization shaped by artificial intelligence.
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In “Still Life with a Secret,” a black cat suddenly appears inside an ideal classical composition, becoming a sign of approaching change and uncertainty.
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At the center of the installation was a century-old box found by the artist in an antique shop in Leiden. Marked with Schrödinger’s equation, it refers to the famous paradox of the cat that remains simultaneously alive and dead until the box is opened.
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The etching “The End of Civilization as You Know It” depicts a black cat live-streaming the construction of a second Tower of Babel. It reflects on humanity’s desire to conquer space, develop artificial intelligence, and gain control over an increasingly complex world.

As Olga explains:

“When the world we are used to falls apart, art becomes a tool for archiving and preserving meaning.”
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Born in Kharkiv, Olga has participated in more than 100 exhibitions and festivals worldwide. Her works are part of the collections of The Danish Poster Museum and Poster Museum Wilanów. She has also collaborated with Kii Arens on a Dua Lipa concert poster, SmileyWorld, VOGUE Ukraine, VOGUE Poland, and Glamour Romania.

Her project for Survival Rituals asks a central question of our time: can the end of one civilization become the beginning of another?

07/23/2026

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We are delighted to announce that Shaul Tzemach Shaul Tzemach has been selected as the winner of the Survival Rituals artist competition following the decision of an international jury.

The jury included:

Kateryna Tytarenko
Mykola Novikov
Anna Avetova
Eugenia Brodsky
Ihor Timankov
Kateryna Reznichenko
Mariia Manuilenko
Myroslav Duzinkevych
Oleksandr Gorbatyi
Yana Liashenko

As part of the award, Shaul will begin a long-term collaboration with Rukh Art Hub, New York, and TUASHO, Basel, focused on international career development, exhibition opportunities, and professional representation.

The collaboration will include a major exhibition in New York in autumn 2027.

Shaul’s practice brings together generative technologies, sculpture, craftsmanship, and material experimentation, exploring the relationship between algorithmic systems and the physical world.
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Congratulations, Shaul!
We are excited to begin this new chapter together.

07/18/2026

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Today I want to talk about one of the most important aspects of an artist’s career that is often overlooked.

Recently, I had several consultations with artists, and I realized that many people still believe that open calls for exhibitions are the only way to build an international career.

They are not.

One of the fastest and most professional ways to develop your practice, build a strong exhibition history, and connect with curators, institutions, collectors, and fellow artists is through artist residencies.

But here’s the important part: not all residencies are equal.

Some simply provide a studio in a beautiful location. Others can genuinely transform your career. Their names immediately stand out on a CV because curators, galleries, and museums know the quality of the selection process behind them.
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Here are ten international artist residencies and post-academic programs that are highly respected within the contemporary art world. This isn’t a ranking, each has earned its reputation for different reasons.
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Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Jan van Eyck Academie ISCP WIELS La Becque | Artist Residency MacDowell Headlands Center for the Arts The Emily Harvey Foundation
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One more piece of advice: don’t choose a residency simply because it’s in a beautiful location or because it will add another line to your CV.
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Look at who the visiting curators are. Study the alumni. Check whether the residency offers studio visits, public presentations, production support, open studios, and meaningful professional networking.
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A great residency doesn’t just give you time to make art.
It places you in the right professional context.
Swipe through the carousel to explore the residencies
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07/13/2026

👁️‍🗨️ Some artists spend years searching for their visual language. Others find it only after mastering the academic foundations.
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Kate Barvinska belongs to the latter.

With a strong academic background and years of technical refinement, she has developed a distinctive artistic language that she describes as Mystical Realism. Her paintings balance between reality and the subconscious, where everyday gestures become metaphors and the human body transforms into a landscape of memory, vulnerability, and quiet inner strength.

Kate joined Survival Rituals through our international open call. Her work was selected from more than 200 applications, becoming part of an exhibition that brought together artists exploring rituals of survival in contemporary life.

What excites us most, however, is not only what Kate has already achieved, but where her practice is heading.

Without revealing too much, I recently visited her studio and had the opportunity to see a new body of work currently in progress. It feels like the beginning of a remarkable new chapter. While remaining true to her own visual language, these new paintings move further into surreal territory with a confidence and originality that immediately caught my attention.

I believe this new series has the potential to become an important milestone in Kate’s artistic career—and I have a feeling we will be hearing much more about her very soon.
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At Rukh Art Hub, we are proud to support artists at precisely these transformative moments, when a unique artistic voice begins to reveal its full potential.

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New York, NY

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Website

https://www.rukharthub.com/, https://www.instagram.com/rukharthub/

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