Olena Holub

It happened 30 years ago. In November 1977 a group of completely unknown artists in Kyiv organized an exhibit in a building that now houses the Modern Art Center and the Dakh Theater. They were members of the Rukh underground association. They named it so because they felt demoralized during the...

The legendary, globe-trotting couturier Paco Rabanne has a soft spot for our country, which he has visited several times. He summed up the changes he has seen in the following metaphor: “Ukraine reminds me of a flower unfolding its petals before my very eyes.” Observing and recreating beauty is...

The Contemporary Art Center at Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University recently featured a young artists’ exhibition entitled Revolutionary Experimental Space. During the protest rallies on Independence Square, the center invited a group of young artists to use its gallery and facilities as an...

Mykyta Kadan’s one-man show at the Dim Mykoly [Mykola’s House] gives its own answer to this question. Defenders of the nonfigurative art would be disappointed with the presence of some narration in the works. However, they cannot deny the author’s advanced sense of color: all color spots in the...

There are rare celebrants of jubilees who, instead of receiving presents, give out generous gifts to all around them, for they share nothing but the divine gift of their own talent. Heartfelt sixtieth birthday greetings came to Nina Sayenko, Meritorious Performer of Ukraine, member of the National...

The wish to fly is one of the humanity’s eternal dreams. Though it has in fact come true, still it seems somewhat unreal, since the imagination is infinite. Perhaps it is for precisely this reason that this subject is of interest not only for engineers (in terms of various aircraft designs) but...

As children we were taught scores of instructive rhymes like this one, “This is a chair, you sit on it; this is a table, you eat at it...” It feels good to refute these truths one by one throughout your life, despite the fact that life keeps clinging to and rarely lets go of them. One can...

Mykola Ivanovych Trehub was born on March 20, 1943, in the village of Mykhailivka, Kyiv oblast. He died when he was still young on March 23, 1984. He was author of over 1000 works in the graphic arts, painting, and mixed media. He was unrecognized during his lifetime. The innovative character of...

Can we talk heart to heart in the hustle and bustle of city streets? We can, if we are on Andriyivsky uzviz. Everything is unusual here and your heart-to-heart can be wordless, conveyed to an artist’s canvas or a sheet of paper. Those exploring an exposition titled Vita (meaning life) at the...