Bohdan Polishchuk's curatorial tour of the exhibition "Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the XX-XXI Centuries: Identity, Context, Landscape"

On 13 October, at 12:00, we gather in the halls of the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine for a curatorial tour by Bohdan Polishchuk of the exhibition  "Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the XX-XXI Centuries. Identity, Context, Landscape".

The exhibition, which is taking place at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine, is the third exhibition of the project "Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the XX-XXI Centuries: Identity, Context, Landscape", and all the artists participating in the project took part in it.

The project offers a look at Ukrainian theatre costume, and with it, Ukrainian theatre and Ukrainian art in general, abandoning the optics of the Soviet or Russian context and the connotations that were aggressively imposed by imperial propaganda in previous years.

The exhibition "Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the XX-XXI centuries. Identity, Context, Landscape" presents the works of Ukrainian artists who worked on the creation of theatre costumes at different times - Ivan Buriachok (1877-1936), Vadym Meller (1884-1962), Anatol Petrytskyi (1895-1964), Alla Horska (1929-1970), Myron Kyprian (1930-2019), Yevhen Lysyk (1930-1991), as well as works by practicing artists who form the face of theatre and the art of theatrical costume in Ukraine today - Hanna Ipatieva, Danylia Kolot, Yulia Zaulichna, Olena Polishchuk, Liudmyla Nahorna, Liubov Dushyna, Natalia Rydvanetska, Inessa Kulchytska, Oleh Tatarinov, Bohdan Polishchuk.

In addition, the exhibition features the works of talented students of several universities who are now starting their professional careers: Vasilina Bezherianu, Anna Mashkovska, Maria Chornoshkur, Kateryna Marchenko, and Kateryna Tyshchenko.

At the exhibition you will see:

Four original avant-garde theatre costumes from the collection of the Theatre Museum:

two costumes by Anatol Petritsky and two costumes by Vadim Meller;

Rare archival photographs and shots from glass negatives from the museum's collection illustrating the evolution of theatrical costumes;

Sketches of theatre costumes dating from 1910-2020;

Footage from contemporary theatre productions;

Theatrical costumes provided by the Lviv National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre named after Maria Zankovetska, the Ivano-Frankivsk National Academic Drama Theatre named after Ivan Franko, and the artists participating in the exhibition project;

Bohdan Polishchuk's installation "RED. WHITE. CHANGING".

Bohdan Polishchuk is the author and curator of the international project "Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the XX-XXI Centuries: Identity, Context, Landscape", co-founder of the NGO "Scenography Gallery", co-founder of the international festival "Lviv Quadrennial of Scenography", artist, director.

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The exhibition is part of an international project implemented by the Scenography Gallery NGO in partnership with the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, PLACEID Territorial Marketing Development Fund (Poland), with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

Project curators: Bohdan Polishchuk, Tetiana Rudenko, Barbara Zharinov.

The project manager is Oleh Oneshchak.

The exhibition will be open until 31 October.

Opening hours:

Monday, Wednesday-Sunday - from 10:00 to 17:00

Admission is at the price of a museum ticket:

- Adult - 100 UAH

- For schoolchildren - 30 UAH

- For students and pensioners - 50 UAH

- For Kyiv residents - 50 UAH

Museum address: 9 Lavrska St., bldg. 26, on the territory of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra"