We are starting the Public program for the 125th anniversary of the museum!
This Friday we will hold an Introductory Talk and discuss the following questions:
🔹How has the concept of “national” changed in relation to art and the role of the museum?
🔹How to build an inclusive and decentralized exposition narrative?
🔹What kind of revision does the canon need?
🔹What should be the decolonization optics regarding the history of art in the museum?
The following will take part in the discussion:
🔸Svitlana Shlipchenko, candidate of historical sciences, director of the Center for Urban Studies;
🔸Olena Skomoroschenko, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, research associate of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda;
🔸 Yevgenia Butsykina, art critic, cultural manager, doctor of philosophy, associate professor at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
🔸Anton Bogdalov, Head of the Department of History of Independent Ukraine, National Museum of the History of Ukraine;
🔸The moderator is Oksana Barshinova, deputy general director of NAMU.
📌October 18 (Friday) at 16:00
📌Registration via the link: https://forms.gle/JtzkLhz1Q2QDx3jw8
📌Cost: free with prior registration
📌In the event of an air alert, we ask visitors to immediately go to the shelter at the address of st. Khreschatyk, 4 and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station.
🏛️ The event will take place at NAMU, at the address: st. Hrushevsky, 6
❗ IMPORTANT: You can get to the museum through the service entrance at the back
Immediately after the formation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1917, the first director of the museum, Mykola Bilyashivskyi, presented the project of the Ukrainian National Museum. However, his plans were not realized due to the conquest of Ukraine by Bolshevik Russia.
In the 1920s, leading scientists of the museum, Danylo Scherbakivskyi and Fedir Ernst, raised this idea and implemented it in 1925 through the organization of the exhibition of Ukrainian portraits of the 17th – 20th centuries and in 1929 – the exhibition “Ukrainian Painting of the 17th – 20th Centuries”.
Then the articles in the catalogs will determine the leading role of the museum in the creation of the history of Ukrainian art, and today we turn to the work of researchers of the beginning of the 20th century in order to review the canon, criteria, as well as the terminology and periodization of Ukrainian art in modern realities.