On March 13, 2025, an exhibition of works by the outstanding Ukrainian artist and dissident movement member Opanas Zalyvakha (1925–2007) opened in Ivano-Frankivsk. Some of the works will be seen for the first time, as they are from private collections, – said the city mayor Ruslan Marcinkiv. The exhibition was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
“Opanas Zalyvakha is a truly outstanding figure. He created under the conditions of the Soviet ban and, despite persecution, remained a great Ukrainian. I thank his family and everyone who helped make this exhibition possible. It is very important to preserve the artist’s works for our descendants,” – emphasized the city mayor.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by Bohdan Paska, a leading specialist at the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archaeology of the Carpathians of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ostap Kardash, an assistant professor at the Department of World History, as well as students of the specialty 014 Secondary Education (History) of the Bachelor’s Degree Program Natalia Shepitak, Viktoria Trinchuk and Olena Kulakevych. The exhibition will run until April 7, 2025, in the exhibition hall of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (53 Nezalezhnosti Street).