Our public program on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the museum continues! Already this Friday, we invite you to the next discussion.
Two stages can be distinguished in Ukrainian modernism. The first period spans 1900–1917 and is a time of free creative experimentation, manifested in the innovative ideas and practices of artists.
The second stage covers the period from the formation of the independent Ukrainian state (1917) to mass repressions by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s. At this time, avant-garde ideas spread in Ukrainian literature, cinema, theater, art, and architecture. Although the defeat of the Ukrainian Revolution led to the loss of independence, it did not cause the decline of the national movement in the Ukrainian SSR.
The development of national institutions in the Ukrainian state gave a national-state direction to the cultural movements of the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s. In response to these trends, the Soviet government introduced a policy of “indigenization” in an attempt to strengthen its power in Ukraine. In the 1920s, there was a project to create a new cultural and social identity, and artistic discussions became a reason for political persecution.
During the discussion, we will discuss the following questions:
📢 What periodization should be applied to the art/culture of 1900-1930s?
📢 Currently, a new stereotype is being formed that the policy of indigenization (Ukrainization) has caused a cultural boom, national revival, rapid development… Can we so categorically assert this? What critical approach should be used in research?
📢 What is socialist realism – an artistic style, a socio-cultural phenomenon or just the art of the era of socialism/totalitarianism?
📢 Let’s pay attention to NEP. Can we claim that many things in the cultural processes of the 1920s began precisely with him?
📢 Did the national revival begin in the 1920s or at the beginning of the 20th century, when publicists raised the question of Ukrainian style?
Participants of the discussion:
🔸Lyudmyla Tikhonova, leading researcher, department of weaving and carpet making, National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine.
🔹Olena Shevchuk, senior researcher of the funds department, custodian of decorative painting funds, National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine.
🔸Yaroslav Hrytsak, doctor of historical sciences, professor at UKU, Lviv.
🔹Anna Yanenko, candidate of historical sciences, deputy head of the research department of the history of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and museum management, National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”.
🔸Hanna Veselovska, theater critic, doctor of art history, head of the department of performative practices and stage art of the Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art.
Moderator: Olena Kashuba-Volvach, candidate of art history, head of the research department of art of the 19th – early 20th centuries, NAMU.
📌Cost: free of charge.
📌 In the event of an air alert, we ask all visitors to immediately go to the shelter. The nearest shelters are located at street Khreshchatyk, 4 (underpass near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station.
📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed at the time the air alert is announced, we will continue the event after the alert ends or another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
❗ IMPORTANT: You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building. To do this, you need to go around the museum to the right along Museum Lane.