In the 1920s, the trends that determined the development of Ukrainian art were concentrated in the Kyiv Art Institute, which was the successor of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, the first higher educational institution established simultaneously with Ukrainian statehood in 1917. The activities of UAM professors, including Mykhailo Boichuk, were aimed at the development of a national art school based on the latest modernist trends.
For the restructuring of educational programs and their introduction into pedagogical practice, KHI announced an all-Union competition and invited innovative artists to teach. This is how Kazimir Malevych arrived in Kyiv with his concept of Suprematism as supranational art.
Mykhailo Boichuk and Kazimir Malevych – both were extremely vivid figures, and their work had diametrically opposed aesthetic platforms. Whether this created stylistic polyphony or sharp competition within one educational institution, we will find out at Olena Kashuba-Volvach’s lecture “Boichuk and Malevych – two messiahs of the Kyiv Art Institute” on May 17 at 5:00 p.m.
🔸 Lecturer: Olena Kashuba-Volvach, head of the art department of the 19th and early 20th centuries of NAMU, Candidate of Art Studies. Olena’s scientific interests include Ukrainian art of the modernist era – both the general trends of the period and its individual representatives. The author of a number of scientific publications, including the monograph “Olexandr Bogomazov. Self-portrait” (2012) and “Ukrainian Academy of Arts. History of the foundation and founders” (2015). Olena Kashuba-Volvach also has significant curatorial experience: the exhibition project “Oleksandr Bohomazov. Creative Laboratory” was exhibited at NAMU in 2019, and a year later – in Vilnius, and the exhibition “In the eye of the storm. Modernism in Ukraine”, where Olena was a co-curator, has been traveling to European cities for two years.
🔸 May 17 (Friday) at 5:00 p.m
🔸 Price: full ticket – UAH 250, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – UAH 150.
🔸 Registration here.
📌 In case of an air raid 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.
