About event
On June 2, the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery" will host the opening of the exhibition "The New Military Landscape"—a joint project by Odessa-based artists Ihor Husev and Stas Zhalobniuk, working as the creative duo Forest Brothers.
The exhibition features over 30 large-format paintings that document the profound transformation of the Ukrainian landscape and how it is perceived under the influence of the war. The project explores the moment when the war ceases to be an external event and becomes an inseparable part of everyday life and cultural experience.
At the center of the exhibition are landscapes that have organically integrated elements of military reality: drones, armored vehicles, and electronic warfare systems.
"The New Military Landscape" rejects the romanticization or emotional hyperbole of war. Instead, the artists offer a restrained, "stabilized" lens—an attempt to capture the state in which society transitions from the stage of shock to the stage of conscious coexistence with the reality of war.
A separate section of the exhibition features works by Ihor Husev from his series "World War III" and "Walking Toward the Light." The artist works with Soviet books, transforming ideological texts into visual fields for new imagery and meaning. In these works, irony blends with delicate imagery, creating a tense dialogue between the past and the present.
In parallel, Stas Zhalobniuk presents an intimate visual diary created during military training. Drawings and philosophical notes reveal a private dimension of the war experience—the internal perspective of a person who is simultaneously an artist and a soldier.
