Entitled "In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s", it features a wide selection of works representing figurative art, futurism and constructivism.
According to the curator’s note: “The development of Ukrainian modernism took place against a complicated socio-political backdrop of the First World War, the collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, the creation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1921), and the incorporation of Ukrainian territories into the Soviet Union and the Polish Republic. Despite these political upheavals, it was a period of a true flourishing of Ukrainian culture.”
The exhibition brings together oil paintings, sketches, collage and theatre design of such artists as Kazymyr Malevych, Sonia Delaunay, Alexandra Exter, El Lissitzky, Oleksandr Bohomazov and Mykhailo Boichuk. Most of the works are on loan from the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine and the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Ukraine.
The exhibition In the Eye of the Storm had earlier been shown in several European capitals, including London, Madrid and Vienna. Daniel Muzyczuk, acting director of the Museum of Art, has told the media that the current show in Poland gives a broader panorama of modernist art as it includes a selection of works by Polish artists of the same period.
The exhibition runs until the end of January 2026.
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