Natalia Smyrnova

The Soviart Gallery, a major venue of the capital’s art exhibits on Andriyivsky uzviz, features a project by Volodymyr Budnykov, a noted representative of contemporary nonfigurative art. The author says he is returning to white as “his color” and this could be used an epigraph for the new...

The Museum of the History of Kyiv is hosting an exhibition called Modern Japanese Painting. The canvases were donated by the Association of Japanese Artists and Kyoto city government, which has been Kyiv’s sister city since 1983. Over the years even the most daring formal quest by Japanese...

This year marks the 425th anniversary of the oldest academy in the Eastern Europe, the Ostroh Academy National University. It revives in the spirit of modern achievements in education of the traditions of the Slavic-Greek-Latin academy founded by the Ostroh Prince Vasyl-Kostiantyn, which later...

December 11 saw the opening of a new exhibition at the Museum of Cultural Heritage, the In Jest project by curator Natalia Filonenko. It continues a series of events taking place in the museum since the fall, which where evidence of a long awaited and so far unique to Kyiv interaction between...

The French Cultural Center, assisted by the French Embassy, organized one Christian Zeimert display at Kyiv’s Museum of Russian Art. The French artist won acclaim by its canvases reminiscent of latter-day creative trends and styles, with a touch of subtle intellectual humor. The 1970s marked...

The Museum of the History of Kyiv continues its dialogue with modern art. Its branch, the Cultural Heritage Museum, after the Women’s Business exposition making headlines, hosts the one-man show , Crucified Buddha, by Alexander Roitburd, one of the leading Ukrainian conceptual artists , which...