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Сад (Garden) (2026)
from the series 'ви це вже бачили?!,...:'
Textbook
Editors-compilers and authors of the texts: Lyzaveta Herman, Anna-Mariia Kucherenko & Borys Filonenko
143 × 176 mm, hardcover
148 pages
Language: Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
'Garden' opens a new book series on Ukrainian art, 'You Have Seen This Before', by ist publishing.
Through more than 50 works included in the book, readers are invited to trace the unfolding of the garden metaphor: from the image of paradise to the idea of a country as a garden, where everyone can tend their own.
Each work is accompanied by an authorial commentary that serves as a key to understanding its significance within art history and reveals connections with other works.
Коротка історія кураторства (2026)
Textbook
Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist
140 x 210 mm, paperback
248 pages
Language: Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
Whose ideas shaped what we today consider curating as a familiar phenomenon in the field of art and culture? Where did it begin, and who stood at the origins of this practice—without which it is now difficult to imagine any exhibition?
One of the most renowned curators of our time, Hans Ulrich Obrist, devoted a book to these questions — A Brief History of Curating. In it, he documents the legacy of influential curators and the field’s most innovative ideas, starting from the 1960s, and presents a unique selection of 11 interviews with pioneers of curatorial practice. Among them are Harald Szeemann, Walter Hopps, Johannes Cladders, Jan Leering, and others.
Довіра. Вибудовування культурного спільного (Trust. Building on the Cultural Commons) (2026)
Textbook
Author: Pascal Gielen
Illustrations: Karina Beumer
129 x 198 mm, softcover
264 pages
Language: Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
The book highlights the crucial role of the cultural commons: the experience of living together and the customs, practices, knowledge, and values that emerge from it. Indeed, trust is a matter of culture, emotion, and even aesthetics. Broad social trust begins with the sharing of vulnerabilities, and Gielen argues that the commons provide the necessary space for this — a space for breathing and for experimentation. How can all of this contribute to building society and shaping public policy?
The author raises key questions: how do we overcome a culture of mistrust? In contemporary societies, suspicion toward fellow citizens, governments, and corporations has been steadily increasing, often explained by the shifting of responsibility and a widespread feeling of powerlessness. We search for solutions in regulations, contracts, procedures, guarantees, audits, and consulting, as well as in good governance and transparency. But do these measures actually strengthen trust? Or is trust always, to some extent, blind?
Де кураторство. Художник–як–куратор та куратор–як–художник (2026)
Textbook
Authors-compilers: Kateryna Nosko, Valeriia Lukianets
140 x 210 mm, paperback
244 pages
Language: Ukrainian
Second Edition. Revised and Edited 
Publisher: ist publishing
A collection of essays and interviews covering a range of issues related to the theme of curating in Ukraine.
The book features texts based on interviews with the following artists and curators: The Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Anton Varga, Pavlo Kovach, Stanislav Turina), Masoch Fund (Ihor Dyurych, Ihor Podolchak), Yuriy Leiderman, Arsen Savadov, Lesya Zayats, Mykola Ridnyi, Kseniya Hnylytska, Lada Nakonechna, Nikita Kadan, Alevtyna Kakhidze, Oleksandr Roytburd, Tiberiy Szilvashi, Serhiy Bratkov, Yuriy Sokolov, Vlodko Kaufman, Mykola Kolomiyets, Pavlo Makov and Oleksandr Solovyov
По кишені (The Shape of a Pocket) (2025)
Textbook
Author: John Berger
110 x 180 mm, paperback
192 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
Ukrainian edition of The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger.
The essays from 1991–2000, collected under one cover, strive to resist the failings of the contemporary world and search for possibilities of other spaces and other worlds, one of which is the pocket of space between the reader and the author.


Вітряки і Дон Кіхоти. Українська правда 25 (2025)
Textbook
Edited by Sevgil Musaieva, Mykhailo Kryhel
Art directed and illustrated by Sergiy Maidukov
200 x 260 mm, hardcover
376 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
A reconstruction of the three longest days of February 2022 — how the full-scale war that no one believed in began. How Ukraine lost and regained Snake Island, and how the Ukrainian Neptune missile destroyed the Russian fleet flagship, the cruiser Moskva. How a HUR Special Forces operative swam for 14 hours in the open sea. How fishermen from Strakholissia saved two thousand people from starvation and occupation. How ordinary old lady Polina Rayko from Oleshky became a star of naive art, and Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit from Kryvorivnia overcame the Gulag.
These are just a few of the 30 stories about a country which accepted a battle against fictional windmills and very real dragons.
The book is a journey that spans a quarter of a century. Through turbulence, the bitterness of defeat, and the warmth of hope. Through revolutions and war. Through ups and downs. From despair and the infantile thoughts like "it will sort itself out somehow" and "what can I change" to the realization of one's identity and one's own power.


Decolonising Art. Beyond the Obvious (2025)
Textbook
Edited by Tetyana Filevska
126 x 210 mm, paperback
311 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian / English
Publisher: ist publishing
The publication summarises and documents a public program organised by the Ukrainian Institute in collaboration with partners and curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
RUGE (2024)
Photobook
Authors: Borja Llobregat & Ostap Yashchuk
Features editor: Andrea Lazarov
120 x 160 mm, soft cover
302 pages
Language(s): English
Publisher: Progresso
Утривалення розмови (2024)
Textbook
Edited by Oleksandra Kushchenko
130 x 210 mm, hardcover
181 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian
Publisher(s): ist publishing with Jam Factory Art Center
A collection of essays written as a dialogue with the exhibition ‘Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Search, Our Us’. The publication also contains photographic documentation of the exhibition, works by the artists, selected fragments of discussions from the parallel programme, and a conversation between the curators following the exhibition
First book in a series published by Jam Factory Art Centre and ist publishing
The Chips: Ukrainian Naїve Mosaics of the 
1950–90s (2024)
Photobook
Authors: Yevgen Nikiforov & Polina Baitsym
165 x 220 mm, hardcover with dust jacket
190 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian / English
Publisher: ist publishing
The archive, collected between 2013 and 2023 and conceived as a book in 2019, presents mosaics by unknown authors in a state of half-decay—when they have already lost their initial glow, are decaying, or are disappearing into the lower layers of facades and city panoramas. The book focuses on naïve mosaics as a phenomenon that raises questions about memory and space, past and present, self-expression and imitation, and captures the fragility of the monumental, which, like chips, eventually became crumbs at the bottom of the package.