News

We invite you to celebrate Oleksandr Murashko’s birthday by joining the museum’s online quest on September 7.

The National Art Museum of Ukraine, together with the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine, announce a joint scientific conference National Ukrainian Museum: Times, People, Fates on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of its foundation.

Recently, the exhibition “Dance in the War Zone?” was closed, and with it the last series of events within its parallel program. Now that the highlights are behind us, it’s time to take stock and reminisce about everything that happened in these 6 weeks, so we invite you to talk about the chosen ways of covering dance in the museum and the experiences you’ve had while getting to know it. This Thursday there will be an online event where the artists and curators of the project will reflect with you on everything that happened and more!

The exhibition “Dance in a war zone?” lasts 6 weeks. During this time, 2 curated tours, 5 workshops on various topics, 3 body practices, a round table and a professional discussion took place within its borders. The exhibition became a huge project that showed the audience Ukrainian contemporary dance and told about its existence during the war. Events within the walls of the museum raised important questions about heritage preservation, directions of museum practice, ways of writing about dance and how it interacts with other arts.

Hurry to visit the last embodiment practice within the framework of the exhibition “Dance in the War Zone?”. Simple and non-obvious movements, which will be taught to you by a project participant and a professional choreographer, will reveal both yourself and the space of the museum to you in a new way. The event will be a unique opportunity not only to get acquainted with the phenomenon of modern dance in Ukraine, but also to participate in it yourself.

Round tables, discussions and workshops of the exhibition “Dance in the war zone?” repeatedly examined the problem of preserving the dance, in particular within the walls of the museum. But how to write, talk and show about him turned out to be a difficult aspect of coverage. That is why Larysa Venedyktova, the artist of the exhibition, performer and director, invites journalists to a dialogue within her online workshop, where all participants will be able to develop joint ways of telling about dance.

“Dancing classes during the war help me to maintain my psycho-emotional health and at the same time to always be in good physical shape, taking into account the risks,” says Krystyna Shishkaryova. “Having knowledge about the body, I began to develop Tactical Choreography with soldiers and volunteers.” Visit Christina’s workshop this Saturday to learn more about her designs and explore your physicality from a new angle.

Such forms as performance or dance are not frequent guests in museum institutions. The question of how to preserve and display such art, in particular, in permanent exhibitions, still remains open, and in some places it does not even arise.

The exhibition “How do you Dance in a War Zone?” is on its way to completion, so come next Friday to get to know the project up close. The co-curator of the exhibition, choreographer and director Viktor Ruban will lead a curatorial tour and tell about the history of the creation of the exposition, which is revealed through the interaction of various media. Learn firsthand about the incredible artistic phenomenon of modern dance in Ukraine and how it works during the war.

The series of workshops in the museum continues! There will be an online event this Saturday featuring exhibition co-curators, professional photographers and art educators Maria Falconer and Paul Hill.

Friends, every Friday in the museum there are “embodiment practices” – practical exercises offered by the participants of the “How do you dance in the War Zone?” project. Each time it is a new experience one’s physicality in motion and in the space of the museum. This time there will be a conversation with Khrystyna-Maria Slobodanyuk.

We invite you to a workshop with choreographer, director, dance researcher and co-curator of the project Victor Ruban, which will take place on Saturday, July 27 at 3:00 p.m. During the event, the artist will present his way of working with the body, movement, dance, perception in the context of his artistic practice presented at the exhibition.