About the exhibition
Join us for the opening reception with Oleksiy Sai on Wednesday, December 14th, 6-8pm. Please register here.
The resolve of Ukrainian artists fighting to keep, make, and perpetuate Ukrainian culture is unwavering. This collaborative project of Oleksiy Sai, Nikita Kadan and Ksenia Malykh brings the presence of Ukrainian art since the early 1990s to New York audiences, and simultaneously shows the real and present danger of the erasure and loss of this cultural production because of Putin’s war of aggression. The sheer abundance of artistic creation in these three decades is shown through an immersive environment of contemporary art projections in the exhibition.
Since the war broke out, Ukrainian artists have also indefatigably produced scores of posters. During the exhibition a selection of these are visible to holiday passersby along Fifth Avenue. In addition, a special selection of historical works include colorful drawings for public mosaics and theater productions by dissident artist from the Sixtiers movement Alla Horska (1929-1970) and Fedir Tetyanych’s (1942-2007) fantastical renderings for technological inventions for the future inspired by science-fiction literature, cybernetics, land and processes in nature, fused into his own version of rural cosmism.
Every day Ukrainians act on their resolution to defend and keep Ukrainian culture flourishing, creating with every step the mutual support, social structures and art that make their culture prosperous and strong.
Artists Oleksiy Sai, Nikita Kadan, and curator Ksenia Malykh have created this project at the James Gallery in collaboration with curators Katherine Carl and Inga Lace over the past ten months to support and spread this cultural courage.
Guardian article about Oleksiy Sai
If you would like to make a donation directly to the people of Ukraine for heat and warm clothing this winter you can do so here.
For further resources, please check this list compiled by BU Students and Faculty in Support of Ukraine | Center for the Study of Europe.
Special thanks to Lizaveta German, Pavlo Tretiakov, Maria Lanko at The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv; Yuri Kostvenko; and Natalia Sielewicz, Agnieszka Tarasiuk, Joanna Mytkowska, Adam Gut, Joanna Dziewanowska-Stefańczyk at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, as well as Bohdan Tetyanych-Bublyk for their dedication to the project. Thanks to program partners Inga Lāce, C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ukrainian Institute, New York; Polish Cultural Institute, New York.
Artists Oleksiy Sai, Nikita Kadan, and curator Ksenia Malykh have created this project at the James Gallery in collaboration with curators Katherine Carl and Inga Lace with project team: Chris Lowery, Whitney Evanson, LanningSmith, Lauren Rosenblum.
