Next Friday, May 31, in the museum lecture hall, we will talk about Alla Horska – an artist, a dissident, a public figure and a human rights defender. Her story, full of tragic events and prohibitions, is key to the story of one of the brightest phenomena in Ukrainian art – the Sixties movement.
An active member of the Creative Youth Club “Suchasnyk” (1960 – 1964), Alla Horska became the driving force of a group of artists, writers and theater actors who sought artistic freedom in the dogmatic Soviet world, sought to renew the artistic language, by turning to banned modernist art, folk art and sought the truth about the crimes of the 1930s. Powerful, courageous, attentive and gentle at the same time, Horska rightfully became a symbol of change and determination in Ukrainian art.
Recently, a lot has been rightly said about Alla Horska, in particular, about her monumental panels in Mariupol destroyed by the Russian troops, so let’s try to understand in the lecture what was the magical power of the artist who managed to unite people and create powerful artistic images that so worried the Soviet authorities.
🔸Lecturer: Tetiana Zhmurko, head of the research department of 20th-early 21st-century art at NAMU. Art critic, curator of exhibition projects, author of art articles and reviews, member of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform. For more than 15 years, Tetiana has been researching modern Ukrainian art. One of the compilations of the first published study of the life and work of Fyodor Tetyanich is “Fedir Tetianych/Frypulia”.
🔸 May 31 (Friday) at 5:00 p.m
🔸 Price: full ticket – UAH 250, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – UAH 150.
🔸 Registration here.
📌 In case of an raid air alert, we ask all visitors to immediately go to the shelter. The nearest shelters are located at street Khreschatyk, 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 of the announcement of the air alert, we will continue the lecture after the end of the alert 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 the Museum lane.
