Mykhailo Zhuk was not only a talented painter and graphic artist of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, but also a master of book design, ceramic artist, poet, and active public figure, a participant in most artistic projects in Chernihiv, Lviv, Kyiv, and Odesa in the first half of the twentieth century.
Zhuk’s creative personality is still perceived fragmentarily by many people: some are familiar with his symbolist poetry and short prose, some love the sophisticated aesthetics of lines and colors in his artistic works, and some know him as a cultural and public figure of the Ukrainian liberation struggle.
At Olena Kashuba-Volvach’s lecture “Mykhailo Zhuk: From Modernism to Art Deco” you will learn how the artist’s work reflects the diversity of trends in Ukrainian modernism. We will also talk about the role Mykhailo Zhuk played in the creation of the national art school and how his art, having received the impulses of the Krakow Secession, found its own sound.
🔸 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). And this year, Olena supervised the exhibition project “Mykhailo Zhuk – herald of the Renaissance”, which took place in Lviv in partnership with the OMMA.
🔸November 17 (Friday) at 16:00
🔸 Price: full ticket – 180 UAH, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 90 UAH.
🔸Register here.
📌 Unfortunately, for technical reasons, the museum is temporarily unable to accept card payments on the spot. At the moment, you can pay in cash or by card transfer.
📌 In the event of an air raid alert, we ask all visitors to immediately proceed to a shelter. The nearest shelters are located at Khreshchatyk Street, 4 (underground passage near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti subway station.
📌 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.
You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building.
