In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine

"I had the pleasure of attending a special event dedicated to the introduction to the Royal Academy’s 2024 exhibition “In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s” on the 29 of November 2023 in London, the project that I have the honour to be engaged in."

The introduction was presented by Ann Dumas, a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and consultant curator of European art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The event has been organised by ​​the Trustees of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Natalia Cola Foundation. The event was followed by an exclusive private view of the Marina Abramović exhibition for the guests of the introduction.

The upcoming exhibition at RA will be the final stop of the “In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s” exhibition’s tour, which began last year at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid and is running through the end of January at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.

Among the artworks featured at the introduction event were works by Davyd Burliuk, El Lissitzky, Oleksandr Bohomazov, Mykhailo Boichuk, Vadym Meller, Anatol Petrytskyi, Sarah Shor, Manuil Shekhtman, Ivan Padalka, Vasyl Yermylov, Sonia Delaunay, Alexander Archipenko and others.
The exhibition in London will run from 29 June 2024 through 13 October 2024 at the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Burlington Gardens, RA.
The curators of the “In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s” exhibition: Kostiantyn Akinsha, Doctor of Arts, co-founder of the Foundation for the Study of Avant-Garde; Kateryna Denysova, Ph.D. Candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art; Olena Kashuba-Volvach, Candidate of Art History, Head of the Department of Art of an early 19th-20th century at the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
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