We invite you to a public talk entitled ‘Ukrainian Architectural Avant-Garde’ with Valery Korshunov, programme manager at ONFAM / Odessa National Art Museum.
- WHEN? Sunday, 26 October, at 3 p.m.
- WHERE? Ukrainian-Danish Youth House (59 Shevchenko Street)
- Admission is free with prior registration — https://bit.ly/proSHO10
The Ukrainian architectural avant-garde is one of the most striking and yet least known phenomena of 20th-century European culture. It flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, when a new architecture was taking shape in Ukrainian cities (primarily in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, and Odesa), combining modernist ideas with the desire to create space for the ‘new man’ of the Soviet era.
The Ukrainian architectural avant-garde became part of the global modernist tradition on a par with the Bauhaus in Germany and Soviet constructivism. It laid the foundations for contemporary architecture in Ukraine, combining rationality, national identity and faith in the future.
Although many of these buildings are now under threat of destruction, their preservation is key to understanding the history of modernism in Ukraine.
The event is supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
