In 2013, the Museum of the Ukrainian Catholic University received its first sacral art gift. Noted collector Ivan Hrechko gave the UCU Museum 50 items from his private collection of Hutsul and Pokuttia icons on glass. For years, we have been in talks with major Ukrainian masters of contemporary art. The list of artists that already donated work to our collection includes: Serhiy Hai, Mykhailo Demt
siu, Yuriy Koch, Borys Buriak, Serhiy Savchenko and the mastermind behind the New Ukrainian Landscape, Anatoliy Kryvolap, whose work “Horse. Evening” garnered USD 186,200 at London’s Phillips Day auction in 2013. Works by these artists are held by private collections in the US, France, UK, Germany, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, and Canada. The university’s core philosophy is that pieces in our collection appear throughout the campus – in signature buildings, churches, libraries, dining halls, meeting rooms, executive offices, residence halls, and on the university’s malls and lawns. In 2014, the Ukrainian Catholic University allocated 357 sq. for the UCU Gallery of Contemporary Art in the new academic building of the UCU campus in Lviv, Ukraine, home to students of history and participants in programs of the Lviv Business School, Institute of Leadership and Management and School of Bioethics.
