Olha Petrova

The renowned National Gallery of Georgia, where guests of Tbilisi get acquainted with the masterpieces of Niko Pirosmani, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akhvlediani, and David Kakabadze, has admitted to its premises an exhibition of a Ukrainian master, namely Oleksandr Zhyvotkov, who named the exhibit...

This Japanese artist was a friend of the museum: he supported it financially and gifted 26 of his personal works. Ryuseki Morimoto recently departed this life. Grateful to this uncommon person, the Khanenko museum hosts an exhibit of his works from its own collection. Olha Petrova, a well-known...

Every great river begins with little streams. The Museum of Contemporary Art “Plast-Art” (Chernihiv) began as a small art studio of Borys Diedov – man of enormous enthusiasm, love of art, and most importantly, the people. Only caring people can do things that are needed for...

Coming in to land, a plane tilted its wings, and its windows offered a view of orange-brown and ocher squares, painted in broad strokes to make up a sprawling landscape painting by Hanna Hidora. In the glow of the evening sun, one saw one composition displacing other in planes of fields. Large-...

Let us remind our readers that this year the artist is nominated for the Shevchenko Prize for his cycle “Reminiscences.”Liubomyr Medvid is a famous painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and author of inspired texts. He is a student of Karl Zvirynsky, Roman Selsky, and Vitold Manastyrsky....

Her spontaneous manner of painting captivates the audience instantly with the “poetics of its transparency” in sensuous and careless images. In her art work from 2009 to 2013 the author overcame the artificial stiffness close to Secession styling that was too obvious in her series...

Oleksii Lytvynov, who signs his art works with the name Leonid Lytvyn, was born in Kerch in 1934. When he was still a child he got really interested in painting and in 1955 he began studying at Dnipropetrovsk Art College and graduated from it in 1961. Next fifteen years of his life he travelled,...

Ideological institutions in Kyiv followed “the general party line” until the collapse of the USSR. All of this reinforced the dualism of consciousness in the artistic circles of the early 1980s that totally did not sustain the Soviet reality. Life of several generations of artists...

The curator of the exhibition Ihor Oksamytny hosted a roundtable discussion where friends and colleagues of Lymariev talked about the complex, dramatic period in the history of national art in the 1970s and the 1980s, which was exhausted under the pressure of ideological dictatorship, about...

Serhii Zhyvotkov is an artist of the late 1980s – the time of “break and transition,” from the generation that defiantly broke all the canons and set itself free from the shackles of socialist realism. His peers in the heat of excitement of innovation, intoxicated with freedom...