Kyiv marks the jubilee year of two Ukrainian artistic visionaries. The year 2026 is defined by two major anniversaries in Ukrainian culture: the 90th birthday of Ivan Marchuk and the 95th birthday of Oleksandr Dubovyk.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Both belong to the generation of the Sixtiers, artists who forged independent creative voices despite Soviet ideological constraints, yet each developed a radically different artistic language that continues to influence Ukrainian art today. Kyiv is celebrating their legacies with two major exhibitions that reveal the breadth of their achievements while inviting visitors to compare two unique visions of the world. At the Chocolate House Art Center, the permanent exhibition of Ivan Marchuk brings together works from eleven museums in Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kaniv. The exhibition traces Marchuk’s artistic evolution from the late 1960s to the present, with particular attention to the 1980s and 1990s, widely regarded as the painter’s creative peak. At the heart of the exhibition is “Shevchenkiana,” Marchuk’s celebrated series dedicated to Taras Shevchenko, preserved entirely in museum collections and recognized with Ukraine’s Taras Shevchenko National Prize in 1997. The display also highlights Ukrainian landscapes created in Marchuk’s internationally recognized technique of pliontanism – a complex web of interwoven paint strokes that produces extraordinary texture and optical depth.