Annete Sagal

A multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist, certified art therapist, and art curator, she is best known for her work with collage.

Born in Kyiv, she combined her education in International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy (Kraków, 2018) with a passion for visual art and therapy.

Sagal has started the collage culture movement in Ukraine by founding Kyiv Collage Collective (2021), co-founding and curating the CUTOUT COLLAGE Art Project (2021), as well as starting the creative educational platform Kyiv Collage School (2023) and eventually opening Kyiv Collage Club (2026) – a creative space for exhibitions. workshops and other creative events.

She organized 50+ international collage art exhibitions in Ukraine and Europe. Sagal is also a member of the Ukrainian Art Therapy Association and uses art as a universal therapeutic tool.

She has completed several creative courses at MoMa, University of Florida, Institute of the Higher Psychology and Body Therapy, The University of Adelaide, Kyiv Art College. In 2025, Sagal completed a grant opportunity by creating a series of free online collage workshops, becoming a House of Europe alumni.

Collaborated with CAC M17, Art Therapy Lab, SVA NYC, National museum of the Holodomor Genocide, CAC W...

2024 – received a certificate of completion of the online course "Healing with the Arts" from the University of Florida.

2023 – received a certificate of completion of the postgraduate course "Art Therapy in Work with Children and Adults" from the Institute of Higher Psychology and Body Therapies.

2022 – completed the online course "Curator of Contemporary Art" from SKVOT – School of Creative Industries.

2020 – completed the online course "Project Management" from the University of Adelaide.

2020 – received a certificate of completion of the course "Modern Art and Ideas" from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

2018 – Got bachelor's degree in «International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy» at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.

2026-2025

- "Ode to Joy", group exhibition, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France (participant).

- Kyiv Art Fair (CUTOUT Stand), Lavra Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator, participant).

- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT (co-founder, curator, participant).
Venues:
1. Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant Gallery, Paris, France.
2. Between Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
3. Kyiv National Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
4. Contemporary Art Center, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
5. Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine.

-"For the Sake of the Letter" – art activism project aimed at supporting POW's (curator, participant).
Venues:
1. Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant Gallery, Paris, France.
2. Antropia, Culture and Conference Centre, Driebergen, Netherlands.
3. Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
4. Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin, Germany.
5. Annex Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
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2024-2023

- "Look into Ourselves", a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents, KAOS Collage Festival, Kranj, Slovenia (curator, participant).

- " Facets ", group exhibition of Ukrainian collage in collaboration with G.ART Gallery, Freiluft Kunst Klub Berlin, Berlin, Germany (participant).

- “FREEDOM” – second international...