This article presents a concise overview of the evolution of contemporary Ukrainian art, tracing its roots back to late-Soviet practices in the 1980s. Special emphasis is placed on the emergence of media art during the 1990s, highlighting the key practices and discourses that shaped Ukrainian video art in this period. The author underscores that Ukrainian video art from that era navigated between the production of visual content (films, narratives, formal experiments) and the realm of video installations and sculpture, representing and analyzing the specificity of televisual mediality. Notably, it was within the genre of media installation that Vasyl Tsaholov’s concept of “solid television” took shape, encapsulating the collective exploration of Ukrainian artists in the realm of media art.
