The virtual exhibition Anatol Petrytskyi: Beyond the Stage is now open to visitors.
Focusing on the artist’s paintings, the exhibition places landscape at its centre. Kharkiv in the 1930s, post-war Kyiv, and works produced at the front in 1943: throughout these works, Petrytskyi’s personal experience is interwoven with the broader currents of history. A particular highlight is the unfinished Battle of the Kursk Bulge, presented to the public for the first time.
The exhibition also engages with the complexities of the Soviet context, inviting viewers to approach these works as historical documents open to renewed interpretation. Today, as war once again shapes the reality of Ukraine, this dialogue takes on particular urgency.
Originally conceived as an exhibition in the galleries of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), the project had to be reimagined following a Russian attack on Kyiv that damaged the museum building. In collaboration with the team at єМузей (eMuseum), the exhibition has found a virtual form that recreates the original display within the museum’s galleries.
The exhibition is free to view during its first month.
Explore the exhibition online and discover an artist whose work, beyond his celebrated achievements in theatre and stage design, has in many respects remained beyond the stage.
Visit: emuseum.ua
Curated by Olena Kashuba-Volvach, Tetiana Zhmurko and Danylo Nikitin.
