"Instytut avtomatyky" initiative was founded on July 20, 2020 by artists Maksym Mazur and Andriy Pidlisny with the aim of promoting the development of a local creative centre that arose spontaneously in the building of the Kyiv Institute of Automation. "Instytut avtomatyky" works outside a single permanent exhibition space and uses the method of collective curation with the involvement of project participants. It functions as an experimental creative laboratory, avoiding mimetic means of expression in the field of modern art. It concentrates on the concepts of experience, the use of non-typical materials, interaction with space and found objects (ready-made).