The Sun Will Soon Appear
The exhibition brings together Ukrainian folk art and contemporary artistic language, reflecting on hope in challenging times. The exhibition includes Ukrainian embroidery inspired motifs, abstract landscapes, sculptures, deers, colorful idyllic forests, objects from 1970s domestic interiors in Ukraine and his grandmother’s original embroidery.
We would be delighted to welcome you and share this experience together.
Venue: TAITH Contemporary (Die Blaue Galerie), Ungargasse 57, 1030, Vienna
Exhibition dates: March 10–19, 2026
* Free entry.
Artist: Danylo Kovach
Curated by: Yana Gryniv
Project manager: Mark Klenk
Technical director: Olena Umlauff
Photographer: Maryana Kosovan
Organized by: Art Contact Ukraine, Kulturverein Worte und Taten
Gefördert vom: 3. Gemeindebezirk (Landstrasse)
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Ausstellungseröffnung
18:00 – Open Doors
18:20 – Grußworte
•Andreas Hülber, Galerist
•Olena Umlauff, Projektmanagerin von Art Contact Ukraine
•Danylo Kovach, Künstler
18:35 – Kurze Führung durch die Ausstellung mit Danylo Kovach (Sprachen: Englisch/Deutsch/Ukrainisch)
19:00 – Informeller Empfang und Austausch
Workshop / Finissage: „Klang und Farbe“
Ort: Die Blaue Galerie (TAITH Contemporary), Vienna, 1030, Ungargasse 57
Zeit: 19. März 2026, 18:00–20:00
Im Rahmen der Finissage der Ausstellung planen wir einen interdisziplinären Workshop mit Studierenden einer Musikfakultät der 3. Bezirk. Gemeinsam mit dem Künstler entwickeln die Teilnehmenden eine Serie abstrakter Landschaften und konzentrieren sich dabei auf die Vermittlung von Emotionen durch Farbe, Pinselrhythmus und Komposition. Nach Abschluss der Arbeiten spielt jeder Studentin eine kurze musikalische Improvisation oder Komposition direkt vor dem entstandenen Bild und reagiert auf dessen Stimmung, Form und Farbigkeit.Der Prozess ist für ein eingeladenes Publikum offen, das die Entstehung der Werke und die Zusammenarbeit der Künstler*innen beobachten und sich am Ende der Veranstaltung an einer kurzen Diskussion beteiligen kann. Ziel des Workshops ist es, die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Musik und Malerei zu erforschen – zwischen Farbe und Timbre, Rhythmus und Komposition, Stille und Raum. Wir möchten zeigen, wie unterschiedliche künstlerische Sprachen miteinander in Resonanz treten können und so gemeinsame emotionale Erfahrungen und neue Formen des künstlerischen Dialogs entstehen.
Ausstellungszeiten
10.03, 18:00-21:00, Eröffnung
11.03, 14:00-18:00
12.03, 14:00-18:00, Künstler da 16:00-18:00
13.03, 14:00-18:00, Künstler da 16:00-18:00
14.03, 16:00-18:00
15.03, geschlossen
16.03, 14:00-18:00, Künstler da 16-18:00
17.03, 14:00-18:00, Künstler da 16-18:00
17.03, 16:30-18:00, Презентація книги Сашка Обрія "ПростеП" з Ганною Гнедковою
18.03, 14:00-18:00, Künstler da 16-18:00
19.03, 14:00-18:00
19.03, 18:00-21:00, Finissage/Workshop
"The Sun Will Soon Appear"
Canvas, linocut, acrylic paint, 100-120cm
This is a utopian dream that peace will reign on planet Earth. The paintings depict a conventional, blurred, bluish landscape in which the sun begins to appear. At the bottom of the screen there is an inscription in different languages: "The sun will appear soon", reminiscent of the subtitles of a film. The idea of the long-term project is to paint in all the languages that exist in the world. When we dream, we hope and talk about it. Let's be realistic and do the impossible. Hope is the last to die.
On the edges of the canvas there are plants, such as traditional Ukrainian ornaments, depicted in embroidery. The flowers grew thorns to protect their blossoms and guard the peaceful landscape.
"DNA"
Canvas, linocut, acrylic paint, 15 paintings
Contemporary vision of traditional Ukrainian patterns, in which the memory of generations merges with modern life.
In his art project "DNA", which was created as an intuitive impulse at the moment of the birth of his son Adam, Danylo Kovach deals with the basic structure of folk art, which is sacred and unifying. Building on the principles of his grandmother Maria's carvings, embroideries and textile works, this series of paintings rethinks folklore and interprets the attributes of national existence. The artist actualizes the deep layers of collective consciousness that lie much deeper than the concept of the "national". Art functions here as one of the most important tools in the search for one's own identity, the position of the individual and the community in a global context.
"Mask"
Danylo Kovach, Vitalii Shuplyak
Modules of Unity series, sculpture
The collaborative work of Danylo Kovach and Vitalii Shuplyak, created at Semmelweis Klinik in Vienna, is the result of the artists’ long-term research practices focused on identity, protection, heritage, and transformation. In 2013 and 2014 in Lviv, together with Ivan Oleksyak and Vasyl Savchenko, they founded the collective Carrousel.The origins of the project in Shuplyak’s practice go back to his drawings from 2021, where the mask appears as a polyphonic carrier of image and social role. Its form, symmetrical regardless of rotation, creates a sense of ambiguity and recalls both happy and sad emojis. Sharp eye openings and a crown-like serrated contour form a silhouette reminiscent of flame. In 2022, the masks were materialized as objects that could be nested into one another like a three-dimensional puzzle. Combined with light, they appeared in Seraphim and Cherubim as luminous figures resembling fiery angelic wings. In 2023, this line evolved into the series Modules of Unity, where the mask unfolds as a form marked by protection and resistance.Kovach works with domestic decorative imagery created through stencil techniques. By deconstructing them, he reveals new meanings within familiar structures. Reinterpreting embroideries made by his grandmothers from eastern and western regions of Ukraine, he developed his own ornament. Applied to Shuplyak’s masks, it forms a surface reminiscent of pixel camouflage and heritage patterning. The ornament becomes both a sign of cultural continuity and a protective wartime motif, intertwining the archaic with the contemporary.In the shared reading of Kovach and Shuplyak, the Masks shape an image of identity that protects yet remains vulnerable, conceals yet reveals, grows from the past and responds to the present. These forms remind us that heritage, struggle, and fragility coexist in layered meanings, like a pattern converging into a single figure. In contemporary Europe, where questions of self-determination and solidarity again take on existential weight, such images become sensitive markers of our time.
"Deer in the Forest"
Installation
The paintings from the series Deer in the Forest by Danylo Kovach originate from childhood memories of images that once hung in his grandmother’s home. Depictions of deer set within idyllic forest landscapes — a popular decorative motif in the 1970s — form the conceptual and visual basis of this body of work. These scenes reflect a vernacular, folk-inspired aesthetic that shaped domestic interiors in Ukraine.Kovach’s father worked in a workshop producing decorative stencils, and these stencil patterns later became source material for the artist’s reinterpretations. Drawing from this inherited visual archive, Kovach creates contemporary paintings that function as a remix of his grandmother’s embroidery and the mass-circulated folk imagery of that period. By translating embroidery patterns and stencil-based compositions into painting, he shifts their meaning from decoration toward a reflection on memory, authorship, and intergenerational transmission.The presentation also includes original 1970s artifacts — wooden sculptures of eagles and deer sourced from Transcarpathia — alongside the grandmother’s original embroidery preserved by the family. These objects act as material witnesses to a specific cultural moment.Through this dialogue between past and present, reproduction and reinterpretation, Deer in the Forest examines inherited imagery and the transformation of folk aesthetics within contemporary artistic practice.
Danylo Kovach
Danylo Kovach was born in 1992 in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, into a family of artists. The artist lives and works in Vienna since 2022. His work focuses on graphics, painting, installation and performance. Danylo Kovach's practice is developing and changing dynamically. In traditional media, he tests the limits and possibilities of the material, sometimes subverting its semiotic meaning in order to make visible the unexpected materiality and nuances of his own artistic idea. According to other approaches, he deliberately embeds his idea in the material and thus forms an additional semantic component. His creative process is based on the juxtaposition of visual (material) and historical space. He travels through the metaphorical and practical experience of objectivity and tries to illuminate deep connections and contrasts. Each work is a testimony to this desire and reveals a holistic approach that combines theoretical concepts with practical application. His work is a powerful journey of experimentation, where the search for new and fascinating visual forms never stops. This urge leads him to conceptualize artworks that embody narrative symbolism and address human rights violations, instability, separation and catharsis. One of the most important elements of his artistic toolbox is the use of ordinary rubber mats, which he transforms into paintings and installations. With the help of these objects, he opens up new perspectives on content and its meaning. These formative elements constitute a semiotic visual language that breaks up universally resonant narratives and invites the viewer to participate. It is an engagement in cooperation, communication and the exchange of diverse experiences. As a refugee artist, his creative journey is surrounded by personal and collective.