Among the most interesting exhibitions of the month are new works by Pavel Makov at The Naked Room, a unique exhibition dedicated to Serzh Lifar at the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv, and a large project by Matvey Vaisberg at the Ukrainian House.
“PISSLYAMOVA (or a landscape with a fig leaf)”
The Naked Room
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until February 8
An exhibition by one of the most famous Ukrainian artists, Pavlo Makov, presents new works from the “Abracadabra” series. This is a kind of epilogue to the artist's self-titled book, published by IST Publishing in December. In this project, the artist captures the state after completing a large cycle, on which he has been working for the past 11 years, and the need to “negotiate” when the main thing seems to have already been said.
“In Search of Lost Meaning. Matvey Weisberg”
Ukrainian House
from January 28 to February 15
The exhibition dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is commemorated annually on January 27, the day of the liberation of the prisoners of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, invites the viewer to reflect on this event through texts by public figures, quotes from people who survived it, archival film footage, the world's first symphony about the Holocaust, written by Dmitry Klebanov, and the works of Kyiv artist Matvey Vaisberg. The exhibition brings together more than 200 of his paintings and graphic works created over the past three decades. The central work “Seven Days” becomes a visual metaphor for the search for meaning – the movement from darkness to light, from chaos to structure, from loss to memory.
“Serge Lifar. My Odyssey from Kyiv to Kyiv”
Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv
until February 1
“Serge Lifar. My Odyssey from Kyiv to Kyiv” is an exhibition project dedicated to the 120th anniversary of one of the most outstanding dancers of the 20th century? the legendary ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, which will help to get to know him better. The exhibition presents, in particular, numerous letters, notes, and theater programs – visitors will be able to see how much the artist toured and traveled the world. Like a bird, like Icarus, he flew very high, but his thoughts always returned to Kyiv. The legendary wings for Icarus' stage costume from the 1935 ballet performance of the same name, with which he left the Paris Opera, are also on display at the exhibition.
“With artists, curators, golden sunsets”
Khanenko Museum
until March 8
The project “With Artists, Curators, Golden Sunsets” is the first solo exhibition by Anna Sapon, which presents a series of 11 large “rugs” on canvas, made using the tufting technique, as well as two art objects, drawings, paintings, and texts that will allow you to experience her artistic world more deeply.
Anna Sapon is an artist, co-founder of the “ateliernormalno” and “Precarni” workshops – an art center for the joint work of neurotypical and neurodiverse artists. The exhibition was curated by Katya Libkind, co-founder of “ateliernormalno” and “Precarni”, an artist and curator of art projects. In her reflections, Anna Sapon strives to get closer to the image of paradise beauty. Her works, texts and songs are filled with images of golden waterfalls, caused gates, radiant air and extremely intense feelings. Anna adds a poem to each carpet – what the carpet could say to the audience.
“For everyone who is “on the mainland””
the stein studio
until February 1
The everyday experience of people living under occupation is almost never presented in the public sphere, say the organizers of the exhibition “For All Who Are 'On the Mainland'”. Not the language of resistance or the generalized image of “life under pressure”, but the everyday reality: everyday life, fear, adaptation, silence, internal compromises. These testimonies do not fit into the usual framework and therefore rarely become visible.
The exhibition presents the texts and reflections on them of the anonymous author of the blog under the pseudonym Hanna Smilka, who is still inside the occupied Donetsk region. In it, the author describes the reality of the captured Donetsk, documenting her everyday life and the reality of the occupation administrations, propaganda mechanisms and the impact of the long-term Russian occupation on local residents, sharing her observations. The exhibits of the exhibition are based on Hanna's texts.
“Artistic pedigree. Heredity and innovation”
National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery”
Can creativity be hereditary? This is the question being asked at an exhibition at the Kyiv National Art Gallery, which presents works by representatives of 35 famous Ukrainian artistic families: from classics to contemporary artists. Kryvolapy, Chichkany, Yablonska-Otroshchenko-Atayan, Tistol-Skuhareva — here you can see the works of the most prominent Ukrainian authors, spanning almost a hundred years, from the 1930s to the present day.
“At 2:47 in the corridor I saw the sea. Sleep as an act of resistance”
Garage 33 Gallery (near the Syrets metro station)
The gallery, which was opened last year by artist Maria Kulikovska, is starting the year with an immersive solo exhibition “At 2:47 in the corridor I saw the sea. Sleep as an act of resistance” by artist Polina Choni in collaboration with psychoanalyst Teta Tsybulnyk and composer Maksym Razdobudko. The project, on which the artist worked for over a year, explores sleep as a form of psychic resistance and a space of inner endurance in conditions of loss of support, war, and prolonged vulnerability. The exhibition appears as a living, changing space that transforms over time and builds a moving dialogue between the body, everyday life, and the architecture of sleep.
The exhibition can be visited on weekends from 11:00 to 15:00 or on weekdays only by personal appointment.