These projects unite the artifacts of ancient art – the stone sculpture of the Crimean Peninsula, naive Kyiv area village painting and works of contemporary decorative art and painting of various regions of Ukraine into a single context of cultural evolution.

The Ukrainian State is celebrating its 15th Anniversary of Independence, but Ukrainian culture affirms its thousand-year evolution and even older sources.

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STONE SCULPTURE OF CRIMEA
Ethnic Crossroads

23 August – 3 September, 2006
Ukrainian House, Kyiv

Curators: Rostyslav Zabashta and Andriy Malhin
Over millenniums many peoples co-existed in Crimea; no wonder it is considered the crossroads of many ethnic cultures.

The ancient sculpture and art is not only very interesting and part of the artistic heritage of Ukraine, but it is a constant source of inspiration for modern and contemporary artists, Alexander Archipenko among them.

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PANAS YARMOLENKO
“Portrait of my Country”

23 August – 10 September, 2006
Ukrainian House, Kyiv

Curators: Petro Honchar, Ivan Honchar Museum,
Lidia Lykhach, Rodovid-Gallery, Kyiv

The village portrait painting is a phenomenon of Ukrainian art which has not yet been sufficiently studied or presented in Ukraine, and, consequently, the world. For decades the official art scholars did not pay any attention to the existence of these unique art islands on our artistic map, because how else could one explain “the phenomenon of Yarmolenko” – a most interesting village artist who is being shown here for the first time.

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YAKIV YUSHCHENKO
“I care”

23 August – 3 September, 2006

Curator: Viacheslav Kulinich

Yakiv Yushchenko, an amateur painter, just as Kateryna Bilokur, Tetiana Pata, Ivan Lysenko, Halyna Hotvianska and thousands of other Ukrainians, felt an emotional artistic drive to paint. Yakiv Yushchenko, in addition, left volumes of poetry behind. The symbolic code of this artist is applicable even today as it concerns the eternal truths of life.

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ECHOES
Works of contemporary artists
of various regions of Ukraine

23 August – 3 September, 2006
3rd floor Exposition Hall

Curator: Serhiy Proskurnia

“Echoes” – is a contemporary painting and decorative art project which unites the space, time and exhibition subjects into one cultural context of contemporary Ukraine. Do art and ideas of ancient and distant epochs influence contemporary artists? This will be the main topic of the presentation of paintings, sculpture and computer art of contemporary artists:
Volodymyr Bakhtov (Mykolayiv), Viktor Hontarov (Kharkiv), Mykola Malyshko and Nina Denysova (Kyiv), Serhiy Savchenko, Viktor Maryniuk (Odesa), Mykola Mazur (Khmelnytskyi), Roman Romanyshyn, Roman Petruk (Lviv), Petro Honchar, Oleksandr Melnyk (Kyiv), Mykola Babak (Cherkasy), Oleksandr and Tamara Babak (Kyiv). Valentyn Zadorozhnyi (Kyiv, Dmytro Stets’ko (Ternopil).

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This project was accomplished under the auspices of the Ukrainian Youth Forum with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and the Ukrainian House.

This exhibition was prepared by the RODOVID-Gallery (Kyiv) together with the “Ivan Honchar Museum”, the “Kyiv Fortress” Museum (Kyiv), the Crimean Republican Museum (Simferopol), and The Historical Preserve “Pereyaslav” (Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi).