CHORNOBYL40 invites artists, designers, researchers, and hybrid practitioners to create new artistic works that rethink Chornobyl not as a closed tragedy of the past, but as a complex European subject that continues to shape our present and future.

We approach Chornobyl as a multilayered phenomenon: an ecological disaster and a space of recovery; a history of Soviet silence and contemporary misinformation; a question of human rights, displacement, and invisible consequences; an issue of international security and nuclear responsibility; a collective trauma — but also a powerful example of resilience, professional courage, and civic awakening.