The exhibition presents a series of graphic works "Stay with Ukraine" by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Samiylenko and is dedicated to the Day of Ukrainian Statehood - a public holiday established by the Decree of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi on August 24, 2021, signed during the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, which will be celebrated for the first time in In 2022, July 28 is the Baptism Day of Kyiv Rus-Ukraine.
    Oksana Samiylenko was born on June 22, 1977 in the city of Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) in the family of an artist. She graduated from the Kirovohrad Children's Art School named after O. O. Osmerkin (1992). She acquired the profession of an artist while studying in the Evening Drawing Classes of the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Yu. Repin (2012) and the Kyiv educational and professional center "Academy of the Art of Beauty" (2019).
    Participant of all-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions. Represented Ukraine at the Kurgal plein air in the Leningrad region (2013). Exhibited works at the "Living Paintings" exhibition in Cuenca, Ecuador (2014). She created a series of graphic works "My Ukraine" (2016-2017) and a series of paintings "Landscapes of Kyiv and Kropyvnytskyi" (2018).
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2017).
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of 35 graphic sheets made by the artist with markers in February-June 2022 during her forced emigration to Europe after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine on February 24, 2022. At the beginning of March, Oksana Samiylenko left Kyiv, where she has been living for the past few years. She visited many European countries that accepted Ukrainians affected by the war. Moving from city to city - Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, Karlovy Vary, Dresden, Munich, Regensburg, Strasbourg, Paris, Barcelona - she recorded her forced journey in graphic sketches.
    "War changes people's lives. Sometimes we are forced to leave our home. Cities and countries pass by outside the window, but the soul remains with Ukraine. Sorrow disappears when you feel the support of the world, when you see the colors of your country's flag in people's clothes, in the windows of houses and on buildings, as a symbol of unity, as a symbol of a common belief in victory. Being a witness of a turning point in history, I, as an artist, hastened to depict it on paper...Stay with Ukraine," says Oksana Samiylenko in the exhibition booklet prepared by the museum.