Ukrainian Artists Through the Ages

Ukrainian art, with its diverse forms of expression, serves as a cultural cornerstone, influencing the nation's identity and heritage by preserving folk motifs and conveying the resilience of its people. Let's meet eleven influential Ukrainian artists.

Explore a story about Maria Prymachenko, who started painting at a young age as a way of communicating with the world around her, as she was born with a hearing impairment.

Get to know an Amazon of the Avant-Garde - Oleksandra Ekster, who innovatively combined cubo-futurism, constructivism, folk primitivism, and themes of antiquity in her Kyiv studio.

Meet an innovative approach to Cubism in modern sculpture with Oleksandr Archipenko, who challenged traditional notions of form, space, and representation, opening up new possibilities for artists to engage with the three-dimensional world.

Meet an artist, who became one of the founders of the Kyiv Academy of Arts - Mykhailo Boychuk. He was the ideological leader of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Arts Association, shaping the organization’s core with the followers of his style. 

Check the story about Davyd Burliuk, who expressed this genre's and epoch's character in his own appearance. In a topper, with a horse or a bird drawn on his face and one eye made of glass, he would leave a lasting visual impression, both in his art and his looks.

Get to know how Lubov Panchenko supported Ukrainian culture: painting pysanky (easter eggs), embroidering national costumes for choirs, and, with her participation, the tradition of Christmas caroling and Ukrainian vertep (nativity scene) was revived in Kyiv.

Meet Mykola Krychevskyi, who created the design of fabric patterns and the scenery for productions for the Artists' Theater Le Théâtre Hebertot and joined the circle of the local Ukrainian artistic community in Paris.

Discover the story of Volodymyr Patyk, who received the highest artistic award of Ukraine — the State Prize named after Taras Shevchenko and traveled all over Ukraine along the paths of Shevchenko, contemplating the local landscapes.