Futuromarennia: Ukraine and Avant-Garde exhibition opens in Belgium – photo
Pravda Ukraine
An exhibition of Ukrainian futurism Futuromarennia: Ukraine and Avant-Garde opened in Drogenbos, Belgium, on Sunday, 17 March. A limited edition catalogue of the large-scale project, which took place in Kyiv’s Mystetskyi Arsenal on the eve of the full-scale invasion, was published and presented on the occasion. The catalogue includes works by Davyd Burliuk, Oleksandra Ekster, Vadym Meller, Viktor Palmov and Vasyl Yermylov.
The exhibition was opened at the FeliX Art & Eco Museum of Contemporary Art and features about 100 works of painting, graphics, book design and scenography. It is also complemented by documentary materials and video installations Poetry Painting and Our 1920s Shot in the 2020s.
About the Futuromarennia project
Mystetskyi Arsenal, a Ukrainian national cultural, art and museum complex, stated that the Futuromarennia exhibition has become one of the most popular cultural events in recent years, with more than 17,000 visitors.
“Under the influence of circumstances, the Futuromarennia project, which took place in Kyiv in late 2021 and early 2022, has undergone significant changes. These reasons are quite tragic and forced us to shift the focus of our research, focusing on the problem of appropriation of Ukrainian cultural heritage by Russian culture. We also placed a special emphasis on the damage suffered by Ukrainian cultural heritage from the Russian aggressor,” Olha Melnyk, the exhibition’s co-curator, told Ukrainska Pravda.Kultura (Culture).
Earlier, it was also exhibited at the KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn under the updated title Futuromarennia: Ukraine and Avant-Garde.
The Belgian project was implemented by FeliX Art & Eco Museum and Mystetskyi Arsenal.
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