Fluranet Design Lab is a Ukrainian network of concept stores offering psychedelic goods and works of art, with trance aesthetics as their main source of inspiration. Founded in 2000 by artists Nataliia Kravets (“Nita Kravets”) and Serhii Rukavytsyn (“H.k. Flurik”), it was the first project of its kind and the very first psy-shop in Ukraine.
Before 2020, prior to the pandemic, Fluranet was a thriving community of like-minded creatives, professionals, and freelance artists. It operated a workshop, five stores across Ukraine, and two in Goa, India, where Fluranet had established its winter residency in 2013.
With the onset of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the network was forced to halt its operations, and the team was evacuated to western Ukraine. After the liberation of central Ukraine, FluRAnet resumed its work in the summer of 2022, reopening its flagship store in Kyiv, alongside an art gallery and an online store. FluRAnet also continued participating in European festivals.
In October 2023, the company entered a new chapter of its history. The team evolved, bringing positive changes—new clothing collections, fresh designs, backpacks, and snoods were introduced. The range of ceramics and jewelry also expanded. Despite the challenges, the war only made the company stronger.
What we consider the main achievement of Fluranet is that meanwhile the project was growing and expanding, combining commercial skills and absolute artistic wildness keeping the underground vibe, it’s managed to stay true to its core ideas and the mission. Which is this: by any means to stay connected to one’s inner cosmos; to have a portal to the reality of your dreams and imagination open and available 24/7. To fill every single day of life with creativity — as a fisherman going out every dawn into the ocean with his nets, we step out into this inner psychedelic realm and pull out of it new amazing images, patterns, phantasmagorical creatures belonging to a brighter reality. To brighten with it our world.