Oleksandr Khvostenko-Khvostov. Stage design for the play Mob, adapted from Upton Sinclair’s novel They Call Me Carpenter). 1924. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Exhibition
Futuromarennia: Ukraine and Avant-Garde
Location: 3rd floor, B-wing
A revealing insight into Ukrainian avant-garde art that aspired to modernise society. Radical dreams about the future in painting and scenography, architecture, literature, and cinema. Artworks by Oleksandra Ekster, Davyd Burliuk, and Vasyl Yermylov from the collections of museums that continue their work amidst ongoing attacks by the Russian aggressors. The exhibition creates a basis for a critical postcolonial revision of the history of both Western and Russian avant-garde, showcasing a wide range of peculiarities of the local artistic life and the affinity for international developments in the art of that time.
Co-organiser of the exhibition: Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine)
In collaboration with:
Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
National Art Museum of Ukraine
Dnipro Art Museum
Kharkiv Literature Museum
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre
Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine
H. S. Pshenychnyi Central State Cinema, Photo and Phono Archive of Ukraine
National Research Restoration Centre of Ukraine
Lviv Museum of the History of Religion
Valentyna Kostyukova
An exhibition organised in collaboration between the Art Museum of Estonia and the Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Oleksandr Khvostenko-Khvostov. Stage design for the play Mob, adapted from Upton Sinclair’s novel They Call Me Carpenter. Ivan Franko Theatre, Kharkiv. 1924. Mystetskyi Arsenal
Oleksandr Khvostenko-Khvostov. Sketch of a stage design for the Sieglinde theme for the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner. Ukrainian State Capital Opera, Kharkiv. 1929. Mystetskyi Arsenal
Vadym Meller. Sketch of the Officer costume for the play Gas written by Georg Kaiser. Berezil Artistic Association. 1923. Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Vadym Meller. Sketch of a costume for the collective artistic composition The Sky is Burning. Hnat Mykhailychenko Theatre. 1921. Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Anatol Petrytskyi. Sketch of the Chess costumes for the ballet The Red Poppy by Reinhold Glier. Ukrainian State Capital Opera, Kharkiv. 1927. Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Anatol Petrytskyi. Sketch of the Мartian costume for the play Viy, script written by Ostap Vyshnia. Ivan Franko Theatre, Kharkiv. 1925. Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Anatol Petrytskyi. Dust jacket of the book Year 15th of the October Revolution. 1932. National Art Museum of Ukraine
Oleksandra Ekster. Sketch of a costume for the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Figure with a Dagger). Chamber Theatre, Moscow. 1921. Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Davyd Burliuk. Time. 1910s. Dnipro State Art Museum
Oleksandr Bohomazov. Conflagration. 1916. National Art Museum of Ukraine
Oleksandr Bohomazov. Prison in the Caucasus. 1916. Mystetskyi Arsenal
Viktor Palmov. Beach. 1926. Mystetskyi Arsenal
Solomon Nikritin. Travel Around the World. 1918–1920. Mystetskyi Arsenal
Mariia Syniakova. War. 1915 (?). Mystetskyi Arsenal
Liubov Popova. Composition. 1916–1917. Mystetskyi Arsenal
