Since the beginning of the perestroika this system of state supervising of culture gradually disappeared, as did the procedure of governmental subsidies. Many private independent projects and organizations - artistic associations, private galleries, etc. have emerged. But in the conditions of transitional period, it turned out to be hard for art, especially for its avant-garde radical forms to become profitable and endure without state support or other forms of subsidies. The process of forming of the alternative source of sponsoring and subsiding from commercial organizations, independent foundations and so on had started just a couple year ago. Nevertheless there is no visible success in this area until now.
Commercial galleries are still scanty in Ukraine.
Even those of them that represent traditional art, are unable to cover their expenditures in the conditions of distorted art market and hard taxation policy. Speaking frankly, the usual Ukrainian art gallery is not a commercial one. For recent years it is usual that banks and corporations establish their galleries, which serve as a prestigious feature for the founder, not as a commercial enterprise. One can compare the task of such a gallery with the role of a marble stair of the bank. Such a process gives life to new galleries, but it doesn't prompt the art market to develop in the right way, as creates neither competence, nor co-operation.