Yefimova A. The art practices in urban spaces late XX — early XXI century (the experience of Western Ukraine).

The thesis is devoted to the problem of an urban, open space art represented in Western Ukraine in the late XX — early XXI century. Nowadays it includes a lot of different practices. There is a wide range of artistic phenomena that define the concept of public art in the city. It include sculptural monuments, murals, fixed and mobile art objects, different action projects, which don’t have constant material form (for example, performance or happening) etc. Such kinds of artworks are intended for public urban spaces and focused on dialogue with society. Ukrainian studies currently offer the analysis of particular phenomena but didn’t reveal a coherent picture of changes in urban art practices that took place at the late XX — early XXI century on the international, national and regional levels.