The Ukrainian initiative of the beginning of the 21st century was founded by the art production manager Gennadiy Kozub and the artist Volodymyr Gulich [uk].

Riding a catamaran, the participants covered 1000-km distance of "Open Gallery Ukraine – the Netherlands" from the Stryi River to Byriuchyi Island.

The new project of Biruchiy was developed as collaboration between curator Irina Leifer (Amsterdam) and Mariya Lanko and Lyzaveta German's team (Kyiv), Open Art Route Zuidoost (Amsterdam) within Tandem Ukraine program (an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation and German non-governmental organization MitOst).

The volunteers comprised artists from Ukraine, Russia, Italy and Germany, art critic, curators and guests of the residency.

The volunteers cleaned up trash left by tourists, from a 10-km area of the seashore near the Azov-Syvash National Nature Park (from Stepok village [uk] to Byriuchyi Island spit).

The residency was also visited by Massimo Melotti, an external relations specialist from Castle of Rivoli museum of contemporary art (Turin, Italy).

Its concept is based on the metaphorical meaning of the word "root" (the fundamental principle, basic constituent of the structure) and it is an artistic response to manipulations in reconsidering the history of the two countries.

[27] An educational event, called Biruchiy Art School, was held in Klementowice in January 2017 with the participation of students and young artists.

In 2017, Biruchiy contemporary art project started cooperating with Flux Factory's artist-in-residence program (Long Island City, NYC).

Within the framework of an exchange program, a couple of artists, Mykyta Kravtsov and his wife, Camille Sagnes Kravtsova, came to New York City.

On June 17, 2019, an offsite residence started in the mountain town of Gornji Morinj [sh], located in the Bay of Kotor (the Adriatic Sea).

On September 4, 2021, a project titled Time Not Lost started in Prymorsk, Zaporizhia Oblast (the historical name of the city is Nogaysk).

Art war" brought together 40 artists from 10 countries (Ukraine, Italy, USA, Austria, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, and Poland).

Artists from Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic worked on the local context of the Borowiec area [pl], reflecting on the common past of the countries, finding collective traumas, and fantasizing about their postwar future.

[41] In April–May 2024, a three-week "Lublin Triangle" (Polish: Trójkąt Lubelski) project brought together artists from Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine, three European countries with a shared history.

In April 13, 2024, the residency moved to France for 2 weeks, to the Montagenet estate[45] near the town of Nontron in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region,[46] known for its artisan knife production.

Exhibitions in the United States were held across the continent from east to west: at Blue Gallery (New York City),[49] Ent Center for the Arts (University of Colorado Colorado Springs), and the Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles, along with a pre-premiere screening of the documentary "Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" by Yevgen Afineevsky).

[50] Since June 2022, a series of poster exhibitions in front-line Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) has been launched in cooperation with the city tourist information center.

On February 27, 2024, the catalog was unveiled at the Ukrainian House in Warsaw [pl] (Poland) which also hosted an exhibition of 87 posters included in the publication.

Forbes military correspondent Mitzi Perdue held a discussion with the catalog compiler Olena Speranska and the Financial Times journalist Christopher Miller [uk], who is the author of the book "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine."

The panelists discussed Ukraine's cultural decolonization from Russia, the role of artists in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the evolution of Ukrainian art.

The exhibition accompanying the presentation featured posters by 10 Polish artists: Andrzej Milewski (Andrzej Rysuje) [pl], Aleksander Małachowski (Hashtagalek), Bartłomiej Kiełbowicz, Hanna Kmieć, Jakub Jezierski, Marta Frej, Matylda Damięcka, Max Skorwider, Patryk Sroczyński, and Paweł Jońca.

The neologism was created in the 2000s by the founders of the project as a reflection of contemporary artists' creative approach to the word formation process.

Ukraine Ukraine /  Netherlands – Open Group (Vidkryta grupa) /Arthur van Beek, Yuri Biley, Jesper Buursinkk, Lyzaveta German, Sergiy Klepach, Pavlo Kovach [uk], Valeriy Kumanovsky, Mariya Lanko, Irina Leifer, Stanislav Turina, Anton Varga/ (Kyiv, Lviv, Amsterdam).

Czech Republic – Alice Nikitinová, Magdaléna Nováková, Jan Zdvořák (Prague), Pavla Nikitina, Jiří Pec (Brno).

France – Sandy Brishler, Mykyta Kravtsov, Tymur Pustoviy, Camille Sagnes (Paris), Diana Faksh (Cergy-Pontoise).

Italy – Nadiya Polevych (Rome), Mariya Proshkovska (Bologna), Gabriele Abbruzzese (Catania), Cecilia Guida, Micol Roubini (Milan), lucrezia Decai (Naples), Franco Ariaudo, Giorgio Cugno, Valerio Manghi, Nataliya Polunina, Alessandro Sciaraffa,Gianluca de Serio, Massimiliano de Serio [it] (Turin).

Poland – Karolina Mełnicka, Tomasz Partyka, Stachu Szumski, Ana Vostruchovaitė (Warsaw), Barbara Gryka (Lublin), Błażej Rusin (Poznań).

Biruchiy project includes lectures and master classes by contemporary art stars, presentations of young artists' works, concerts and DJ sets.

The magazine published interviews and comments of renowned art critics, collectors and artists, reviews of exhibitions and projects.