Business brings money, but pleasure comes from what the soul lies in. Exactly therefore, in parallel with business, Sergiy Tsyupko is actively engaged in charity work, patronage and collection of Ukrainian art’s works.
Among Sergiy Tsyupko’s projects, the following can be highlighted:
The passion for collecting paintings began in the early 1990s and grew in opening of the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine. This event happened as the matter of honor and special pride for Sergiy Viktorovych, as the founder of the First Private Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine. Opening of the Museum took place in 2005 and became an extraordinary event of cultural life not only of Kyiv, but also of the whole Ukraine, having declared in the context of the tasks reviving the spirituality of the Ukrainian nation, popularization of outstanding, but little-known Ukrainian artists.
In his creative progress, Sergiy Viktorovych discovered for himself “blank sheet” and started a printing business in early 2008. Fine Art became real art magazine that gathered the best artists, art historians, museum specialists on its pages.
At this time, the museum’s collection includes more than 6.000 exhibits (paintings, graphics, sculpture, icon, decorative and applied art) and continues to be replenished.
During this time, the museum had held more than one and a half hundred exhibitions, including outside the borders of Ukraine, had created many catalogs and the “White Album”, which included the best works of Ukrainian artists of the museum’s collection. “White Album” was presented to libraries and museums around the world.
Charity in itself was not a separate project, but Sergiy Tsyupko has always done deeds that fall under this definition. There was no need to advertise them specially or to create a legal entity that would specifically engage in charitable activities.
Back in 2008, in an interview for the Narodnyi Deputat (People’s Deputy) magazine, in response to the question, what prompted him to charity, Sergiy Viktorovych said:
“I’m just a citizen of my country. I love and respect Ukraine. I want to see it strong and developed. And I really want to help at least something at a certain stage of its development and becoming.”
The situation changed with the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine In February 24, 2022. After the Ukrainian troops expelled the occupiers from Kyiv region, and it became obvious what challenges Ukraine have faced, it was accepted the decision to create the Sergiy Tsyupko’s Charitable Fund.
During the first year of its existence, the fund visited 16 settlements of Kyiv region, which
were the most affected by hostilities.
