Senior Research Associate Oleh Sydor-Hibelynda, National Academy of Visual Art and Architecture, Kyiv: "On the outside, the beehives look like something halfway between pagan sculpture and a centrifuge for endurance testing, between a blown up walnut and a children’s slide. Simultaneously extraterrestrial and very familiar, close to the essence of man and yet mysterious—and open to cognition." Read More

Emeritus Professor Sam Hunter, Princeton University: "Remarkable as sculpture, Apiary transcends its process, documentation and related works to become what Zhuravel intended in an ongoing series of works that draw on a singular symbol, the bee in its community and both, in turn, in harmony with nature." Read More

Christian Gusewski, Director, Gallery ARTRU, Runenberg, Switzerland: "The blossom, the nectar, the honey, the wax, the propolis—they form a cycle that sustains and heals our lives, the Earth and the Cosmos; this is the essence of the bee. To be in a community and in communion with the bees is to receive and care for the healing and life promoting forces of the Earth." Read More