Next Friday, in the museum lecture hall, we will hear the story of Oksana Pavlenko, a Boichukist artist and an active figure in the artistic process. More than 100 years ago, she chose a career instead of the traditionally “feminine” roles of wife and mother. And she was able to become one of the best students of Mykhailo Boychuk’s monumental workshop.
She had to build her career in the newly created Soviet country. At the time when the party implemented its ambitious plan to create the image of the “New Soviet Woman”. Oksana Pavlenko, like millions of girls and women, became a participant in this experiment. But can Oksana Pavlenko herself be called a heroine of her time? What was her vision of the “new Soviet woman”? And to what extent did the image created by her meet the requirements of the party?
We will look for answers in the memories of the artist, and of course, in her works of the 1920s and 30s: drawings and sketches (some of which we will show for the first time!), sketches and famous paintings. Therefore, we invite you to Anastasia Plishchenko’s lecture “Oksana Pavlenko and the image of the “new woman” of the 1920s-1930s”, which will take place on May 24 at 5:00 p.m.
🔸 Lecturer: Anastasia Plishchenko, research associate of the NAMU scientific and educational department. The researcher’s interests include biographies and works of Ukrainian artists.
🔸 May 24 (Friday) at 17:00
🔸 Price: full ticket – UAH 250, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – UAH 150.
🔸 Registration here.
📌 In case 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.
