Art from Ukraine
October 14, 2023–January 28, 2024
Blijmarkt 20
8011 NE Zwolle
The Netherlands
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–5pm
T +31 572 388 188
info@museumdefundatie.nl
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories: Art from Ukraine is the first survey of contemporary art from Ukraine in the Netherlands. Complemented by key pieces from the country’s historical avant-garde, this exhibition tells the story of Ukraine’s cultural identity, against the backdrop of the country’s tension between freedom and oppression, in paintings, drawings, videos, installations, performances, sculpture, sound work, photography and textiles.
As of June 19, 2023, UNESCO counted a number of 260 cultural Ukrainian sites that have been destroyed or damaged since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Together with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden (SKD), Germany, Museum de Fundatie has therefore set itself the following goal with Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories: to contribute to the protection of the artistic heritage of Ukraine and to ensure that contemporary artists from Ukraine, many of whom have had to flee their country, can continue their work.
Taking four themes as a point of departure, the exhibition unveils the strong intertwinement of Ukrainian diverse history, its permanent social and political turbulence with Ukrainian artists’ work. Practices of Resistance, Cultures of Memory, Spaces of Freedom, and Thoughts about the Future, each reflect on the dynamic between the claim for freedom and the mechanisms of repression through art.
Featuring works by: Sergey Anufriev, Yevgenia Belorusets, Andrij Bojarov, Sergey Bratkov, Katya Buchatska, Davyd Chychkan, Danylo Halkin, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Nikolay Karabinovych, Dana Kavelina, Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Lesia Khomenko, Maria Kulikovska, Sasha Kurmaz, Yuri Leiderman, Kateryna Lysovenko, Larion Lozovyi, Pavlo Makov, Boris Mikhailov, Lada Nakonechna, Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach and Anton Varga) , Vlada Ralko, Masha Reva, Mykola Ridnyi, Andriy Sahaidakovskyi, Kateryna Snizhko, Stas Volyazlovskyi, Anna Zvyagintseva.
Historical positions: Oleksandr Archypenko, Oleksandr Bohomazov, Kateryna Bilokur, Alla Horska, Leonila Hrytsenko, Boris Kriukov, Viktor Palmov, Sergei Parajanov, Oksana Pavlenko, Maria Prymachenko, Maria Siniakova, Hanna Sobachko-Shostak, Fedir Tetianych, Tetyana Yablonska, Ludmyla Yastreb, Vasyl Yermylov, Halyna Zhegulska.
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories is presenting new commissioned works from Nikita Kadan, Alevtina Kakhidze, Nikolay Karabinovych, Kateryna Lysovenko, Kateryna Snizhko, and Anna Zvyagintseva.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive catalogue with essays by curators Tetiana Kochubinska, Maria Isserlis & Aude Christel Mgba, and contributions by participating artists Yevgenia Belorusets & Larion Lazovyl. A publication by Waanders, Museum de Fundatie and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
