Exhibition: "Lina Kostenko in Chornobyl Expeditions"

Following the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, over 170 villages and towns of the Polissya region—each with a unique cultural and historical identity—were turned into radioactive waste sites, doomed to gradual extinction.

The Ivan Honchar Museum opens an exhibition dedicated to the documented and preserved heritage of Chornobyl. Here, Chornobyl appears not only as a territory of tragedy but as a cultural space that demands reflection, preservation, and responsibility.

The exhibition highlights a lesser-known but vital aspect of Lina Kostenko’s life: her long-term participation in historical and ethnographic expeditions to the Exclusion Zone. It offers the perspective of a person capable of sensing and noting the invisible, perceiving the catastrophe as a historical trauma and a challenge to cultural memory.

The photo exhibition consists of two sections:

1. A large-scale visual chronicle of thirty years of field research conducted by various expeditions.

2. Photographs reflecting the direct participation of the writer, researcher, and rescuer of Ukrainian Polissya’s cultural heritage.

This exhibition is part of the events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, coordinated by the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management (SAUEZM) in cooperation with national institutions and partners.