Ukraine

Cities

Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Crimea

Predecessors

Groups and initiatives

• Gileia (Hylaea), *1910, Kherson, futurists. Burliuk Brothers, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh.
• Kvero (Quaero), *1913, futurists. Mykhail Semenko, Vasyl Semenko and Pavlo Kovzhun.
• Budiak (Weed), *1913, Kharkiv, Bohomazov and Syniakova.
• Skoptsy (near Kyiv) & Verbivka (near Cherkasy), 1915. Peasant craft cooperatives. Embroideries and kilims designed by Suprematist artists – Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Nina Henke-Meller, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, and Yevgeniia Prybylska.
• Molodyi teatr (The Young Theater), *1916, Kyiv, experimental theatre, founded by Les Kurbas. Kurbas directs and acts in Gogol’s Revizor and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

Works

• 1914, Vladimir Tatlin creates his relief Bandura in yellow and blue (the national colours of Ukraine).

Venues

• 1911, Opening of the first film studio in Ukraine.

Events

• 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
• 1914, The Ring Exhibition – an exhibition of the group Kol’tso [Ring] led by Alexander Bohomazov, one of the founders of Ukrainian cubofuturism (Exter, Isaak Rabinovich).

Publications

• 1914, Mykhail Semenko publishes his first two poetry collections Derzannia [Audacity; includes provocative introduction Sam [Alone] which is considered the first manifesto of Ukrainian futurism: “I burn my Kobzar”), and Kvero-Futuryzm [Kvero-Futurism].
• 1914, Bohomazov writes his treatise Painting and Elements.

Literature

• Katya Stukalova. Ukrajinské mediální umění - V očekávání (Czech). 2005. [3]

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