23.10.2022 Live broadcast, FM, language: Ukrainian

Let's see together with Anna:

- exhibitions
- archive photos
- the local scene
- fundamental exhibitions

Let's pay attention to the south of Ukraine, Odesa, partly Kyiv, and most importantly - to the person who influenced a huge number of planes: social, artistic, curatorial, political and the plane of women's hearts.

14.10.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

- A man in socks with naked arses. Who are you without them?
- A cultural manager, a playboy, a philanthropist.

This is the kind of dialogue that could have taken place between Locke and Roytburd if the Marvel Cinematic Universe made movies about real superheroes, not dudes in tights (guys, no bias against tights - they're sexy).

Today, on 14 October, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Defenders of Ukraine. At the same time, we are celebrating the birthday of Sasha Roytburd, a fundamental figure in the cultural sector of independent Ukraine, and in particular in the Ukrainianisation of Odesa.

- How did the demarginalisation of contemporary Ukrainian art take place?
- How did self-taught cultural managers manage the Soviet chaos?
- What was Roitburd's role in the struggle against the post-Soviet cultural system?

And finally:

- what is the " Roytburd phenomenon" and why will we hear about it again and again?

25.09.2022 Live broadcast, FM, language: Ukrainian

We will look at Alla's life path: from the terry socialist realism to her own modern style; we will show rare archival photos and personal letters from Horska and her circle; and finally, we will find out the reasons for her "accidental" death in the prime of her life.

Of course, we will also talk about the phenomenon of the Sixties, the Ukrainian cultural renaissance:

- Under what circumstances did it emerge?
- who were its members
- why many of them were not destined to become "seventies" and "eighties"

19.09.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

The subject of the post is Alla Horska, a unique artist of the twentieth century.
Her legacy can be considered in several contexts at once:

• purely artistic;
• socio-political;
• through the optics of her contribution to the national identity of Ukraine.

Each of these sections is a large-scale topic for discussion and an important period in Ukrainian history.

28.08.2022 Live broadcast, FM, language: Ukrainian

Live broadcast on the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine.

- The first major Ukrainian artistic style - Boychukism
- the period of the Ukrainian People's Republic with Heorhiy Narbut and the Academy of Arts
- artistic repression and immigration of artists
- the emergence of "modern" art in the 80s
- revolutionary processes of the 90s
- modernity with the expression of political will and national identity

07.07.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

World-famous star Oleksandra Ekster is today's guest in the What's your SuperPower? I'm Ukrainian".
Exter was one of those who broke stereotypes and paved the way for new art: painting and graphics, theatre and cinema, new furniture and clothing designs, ceramics, book illustrations and interior design.

18.06.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

On the shelf of trophies of Russian art history, somewhere between Kuindzhi and Serebryakova, stands Ilya Repin.

His entire biography is an exemplary illustration of the conflict between Ukrainian identity and the great imperial realities of life.

With one hand, he sketched the first monument to Shevchenko and sponsored the development of Ukrainian art, while with the other he painted portraits of the "slumlords of Moscow society" - living in such a twisted world did not seem to cause ideological differences in his soul.

We continue to talk about the Russian kidnapping of Ukrainian artists: on the agenda is Ilya Repin, the author of the famous Cossacks and one of the "key artists of the untamed Russian culture".

08.06.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

The Ukrainian community lacks a discourse on the imperial and Soviet heritage.

- Why did this issue become relevant at all?
- What does Pushkin have to do with Ukrainians?
- How did Klitschko behead a Russian in the centre of Kyiv?

05.06.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian

Sonia Delaunay is a real challenge with an asterisk for biographers and an unobvious choice for the "What's your superpower? I'm ukrainian".
Indeed, Delaunay is a controversial figure - she is Ukrainian by birth. She was brought up in St Petersburg from the age of 7, received her art education in Germany, and spent the rest of her life in France. But it was the artist herself who dotted the i's and crossed the t's when, in her only biography, she did not hesitate to give the prize of her "native country" to Ukraine.
Having established Delaunay's legitimacy within this section, we invite you to the slides - scroll through to find out how the Ukrainian became a true avant-garde icon.

The material was prepared by Aliona Troianenko and Anna Petrova.

15.05.2022 Publication, FM, language: Ukrainian 

The nationality of Kazymyr Malevych is a black square on the body of world art history. Four countries are fighting for the right to include him among their "own" artists: Belarus and Poland, relying on his ethnicity, Ukraine, appealing to his biography, and, of course, Russia (apparently, for company).
Today, we will untangle this national mess and talk about the creative heritage of one of the key artists of the twentieth century as part of the debut publication of the series What's your superpower? I'm Ukrainian.

28.04.2022 Publication, ONFAM, language: Ukrainian 

The period of the Second World War in the biography of the Odesa Art Museum has more white spots than filled.

Researchers of this historical period have to collect information in handwritten orders, acts, evacuation letters, memoirs of employees.

According to the main curator of the collection of the Odesa Art Museum, out of more than 8,000 exhibits, only 654 reached safe Tashkent and Ufa. During the transfer, 50 disappeared and never returned. The rest of the collection remained in the native walls to meet the occupiers.

13.04.2022 Publication, ONFAM, language: Ukrainian 

​​«It is enough to destroy the cultural monuments of the people, so that in the second generation they ceased to exist as a nation», said Alfred Rosenberg, a senior party official of the Reich Ministry of the Occupied East of Nazi Germany.

In a new series of articles by Odessa Art entitled «Lost Heritage», we will talk about how most of Ukraine's cultural heritage was destroyed under Soviet rule.

It is well known that a third of all cultural losses of the former USSR in World War II are losses of Ukraine.

Figures for the beginning of World War II:

More than 3 million exhibits were kept in 174 Ukrainian museum collections.

Out of 174 museums, only 32 museums were evacuated.

Of the 3 million exhibits, only 35,000 have been relocated to safe areas.

06.04.2022 Publication, ONFAM, language: Ukrainian 

«There is nothing of their own 😂» — this comment from Russian woman texted under one of our publications inspired us to create a series of posts about Ukrainian artists and art, which Russia is accustomed to consider its heritage.
The name of the new project — bold and provocative — #неманічогосвого [there is nothing of our own]. Is anyone still trying not to see the facts and insists that many Ukrainian mega-artists are Russian? Follow our posts.
The project is opened by Ukrainian painter Oleksandr Murashko.