Anna Parovatkina

Graphics is a genre that reveals the class of an artist better than any other. For example, in the Soviet era book illustrations enabled artists to show creative fantasy and evade the so-called “social commission.” The Sixtiers liked graphics and monumental art. The graphic “gems...

The exhibit is being held as part of the Kyiv Art Week. Curators invited Georgian and Ukrainian nonconformist artists to take part in this project. Gela Dumbadze, Ambassador of Georgia to Ukraine, is the guest of honor.It will be recalled that the latest large-scale exhibit, that of Niko Pirosmani...

Let us recall that the Wall, which was more than 200 meters long, took 13 years to erect in the Baikove Cemetery, only for it to be concreted over by the order of the Communist leadership in 1982, and stay unrestored for over 30 years! At the opening ceremony, one of the authors of...

The past year was a very successful one for Vlada Ralko, who is among Ukraine’s most famous contemporary artists. Together with Volodymyr Budnikov, who is her husband, colleague, and supporter, she held several exhibitions, both collective and solo, and this creative couple also released...

“The Kazimir Malevich Factory of Suprematism” is a solo exhibit of what the media call “shocking artist” Anatol FEDIRKO. It is no accident that this epithet has stuck to the artist – almost like “Chairman of the Globe” did to Velimir Khlebnikov....

The exhibit is named “Private City.” While art critics keep locking horns over what the “Kyiv art school” is, artists are painting Kyiv, their most favorite city.  Viktor Khomenko’s “Private City” creates a strong impression. His Kyiv is, to a large...

The exhibit “Picturesque Preserve: Golden Period” shows for the first time the works created in 1990-99 and now kept in private collections.The exposition creates a very strange impression. I thought I would begin the story by saying that the exhibition hall of the “Golden Section...

By holding a high-profile exhibit, “More than Sculpture,” at Art Ukraine Gallery, Natalia Zabolotna begins a new stage in her career as art manager. It will be recalled that Art Ukraine Gallery she founded is located under the roof of the well-known M17 Contemporary Art Center (CAC)....

The exhibition “(R)evolution of a Myth: the Transformation of the Kobzar Culture in the 19th-21st Centuries” offers an unprecedented new look at the events it covers, and at the same time, debunks the myths... Who were they – kobzars, lirnyks, and bandurysts? How did they...

The Museum of the Book and Printing of Ukraine is hosting the exhibition “Listening to One’s Own Self,” which shows the artist’s oil paintings and pastels, until March 12.Tetiana Yablonska, the best known mid-to-late-20th-century Ukrainian artist, would have been 101 on...