On August 23, 2021, on State Flag of Ukraine Day, an art exhibition “Sunny Colors of Ukraine” was opened to the 30th anniversary of Independence of Ukraine in O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum. The displayed works are a part of the museum collection “Modern Ukrainian Fine Art”.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of paintings, graphic works, sculptures, and decorative works of the modern famous artists of the Kirovohrad region – the People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Nadezhdin, Merited Artists of Ukraine Borys Vintenko, Nelia Firsova, Anatolii Yaniev, Serhii Shapovalov, Feliks Polonskyii and Andrii Nadezhdin, Merited Folk Art Artist of Ukraine Oleksandra Prenko, Merited Cultural Worker of Ukraine Leonid Bondar, members of the National Unions of Artists and Folk Art Artists of Ukraine. The majority of the artists are the laureates of the Regional Awards in Fine Art and Study of Art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin and in Architecture, Heraldry and Vexillology, Decorative and Applied Arts named after Yakiv Pauchenko. The exhibition displays 70 works created in the period from the 1990s and till nowadays. Landscapes, still lifes, and themed compositions impress with bright colors, the harmony of plastic forms, and elegance of graphic lines, their symbolic images encourage contemplation, set up for a romantic mood, fill with optimism, and give the atmosphere of the artistic holiday, conveying the special, unique coloristic of Ukrainian sunny palette.
    Painters, architects, journalists, and worshipers of Ukrainian fine art came to the festive museum vernissage. The heads of the local art centers gave congratulatory speeches – the head of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Andrii Khvorost and the head of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, merited Architect of Ukraine Yurii Peniaz, as well as associate professor of the Art Department of Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ph.D. in Art History Olena Kyrychenko. On this day, the museum got pictorial gifts. The leading researcher of the museum, Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin characterized the exhibition of the works by the artists from the Kirovohrad region as: “a demonstration of the style of modern Ukrainian art which, in the modern information environment, is noted for poetical philosophy based on the reconsideration of folk and literary forms of folk cosmogenesis and the world art practices”. He also handed to the museum collection his self-portrait and a work by his sister, abstract artist Oksana Zhuravel (Nadezhdina), whose jubilee personal exhibition was presented at the museum website. So, the art works were added to the museum collection “Modern Ukrainian Fine Art”; and the potential museum visitors will be able to see the works in the new expositions.