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  • Konstantin Akinsha, the curator of the Royal Academy of Arts's “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, –s,” spent several frustrating years.
  • Konstantin Akinsha is among the foremost scholars and curators of Russian and Ukrainian Art. He studied at the Shevchenko Art School in Kyiv.
  • Konstantin Akinsha is a Kiev-born art critic, historian and curator of exhibition projects and a fellow at the Max-er-Kolleg.

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    Curator Konstantin Akinsha on sparande Ukrainian Modernism from Russia’s Missiles

    While a vast survey of Ukrainian modernism in London appeared to open at the end of June without a hitch, the show&#;s journey to the UK was not an easy ride.

    Konstantin Akinsha, the curator of the Royal Academy of Arts&#;s &#;In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, –s,&#; spent several frustrating years ansträngande to convince Western museums to host the show. But he kept hitting roadblocks: some were uninterested, and some were simply unable to take it, due to political tension. At long last, the exhibition has arrived in the British capital, however, having first appeared in Madrid in

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    The exhibition tells the story of a group of modernist artists who helped define Ukraine’s cultural identity. It is therefore deeply ironic that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his claims that the country doesn&#;t exist, not to mention the Russian military

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    Nation-building and Ukrainian modernist art

    This volume is dedicated to the dramatic story of Ukrainian modernism. The radical Ukrainian art formed in the last decade of the Russian Empire was a seismographic indicator of the tectonic changes to come, against the background of the upcoming revolution and subsequent attempts to establish an independent state. The Ukrainian modernists actively participated in nation-building, trying to create a recognizable national style. This is their story.

    After nearly five years of the bloody War of Independence (–21), the Bolsheviks defeated nationalist Ukrainian forces and established the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (UkrSSR). However, the initial period of Communist rule created a mere illusion of Soviet-controlled cultural autonomy. The policy of ‘Ukrainization’, initially supported by Moscow for tactical reasons, facilitated the rapid development of a national culture that very much proclaimed its own home-grown identity. The s beca

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    Konstantin Akinsha and Katia Denysova on Modernism in Ukraine

    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, –sat the Royal Academy, 29 June – 13 October
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    I’d be interested in hearing about the broader significance of the modernist movement in Ukraine – particularly given the historical backdrop of the time. How does this context inform the artists’ practice?

    Katia Denysova: At the turn of the 20th century, Ukrainian lands were divided between two empires – the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian. The modernist movement in Ukraine, therefore, pursued a twofold agenda of recovering and creatively reconstituting national pictorial traditions to assert Ukraine’s cultural autonomy within the imperial context while also seeking to integrate local practices into the modernist idiom. While engaging in a degree of retrospectivism, Ukraine’s artists were nevertheless part of an international artistic community, attuned to the latest developments and trends acr