The modernist era was a real artistic explosion marked by a persistent search for a new artistic language and bold experiments. In Ukraine, the panorama of modernism is represented by a wide range of artistic practices from Oleksandr Murashko to Viktor Pal’mov; from Petro Kholodnyi to the school of Mykhailo Boichuk.
What trends and movements of modernism developed in Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century? How did it break with the traditions of realism and other previous trends? What is the relationship between the concepts of “modern” and “modernism”, “modernism” and “avant-garde”? How did art become an arena of struggle for color, space, and form? Find out about this and more at Olena Kashuba-Volvach’s lecture “Modernism in Ukraine: Terminology, Movements, Masters”.
🔸 Lecturer: Olena Kashuba-Volvach, Head of the Department of Art of the XIX – Early XX centuries. NAMU, PhD in Art History. Olena’s research interests include Ukrainian art of the modernist era, both the general trends of the period and its individual representatives. She is the author of a number of scientific publications, including the monographs “Oleksandr Bohomazov. A self-portrait.” (2012) and “Ukrainian Academy of Arts. History of its 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 “At the Epicenter of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine”, where Olena was a co-curator, was presented in three European city within a year (Madrid, Cologne, Brussels).
🔸November 17 (Friday) at 16:00
🔸 Price: full ticket – 180 UAH, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 90 UAH.
🔸Register here.
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📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed at the time of the air raid alert, we will continue the lecture after the air raid is over or continue on another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
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