Ukraine

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Cities

Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Crimea

Predecessors

  • 1906, Kyiv Exhibition by Alexander_Archipenko [1] and Alexander Bogomazov [2].
  • 1909, Odessa First Salon organised by sculptor Vladimir Izdebsky and former student of Odesa Art School Wassili Kandinsky. It is the first major display of avant-garde art in the territory of the Russian Empire (it includes 900 works by 150 artists, such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, Natalia Goncharova, Aleksandra Exter, Mikhail Larionov, and many others).
  • December 1909, Odessa. Second Izdebsky Salon showing works by Kandinsky, the Burliuks and many Western avant-garde artists (439 works in total, 25 by David Burliuk, 53 by Kandinsky). First abstract work by Kandinsky appears on the cover of the catalogue Salon Izdebskago 2. The catalog contains essays by Kandinsky and Schoenberg.
  • 1910, Kyiv. Second Izdebsky Salon moves from Odessa to Kyiv.
  • 1910, Kharkiv. The artist studio Golubaia Liliia [Blue Lily] opened by Evgeny Agafonov
  • 1910, Kherson. Futurist group Gileia (Hylaea) is created (Burliuk Brothers, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh).

Literature