Exhibition “Three Hours: Unofficial Art of Odesa in the Second Half of the 20th Century”

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    Title:

    “Three Hours: Unofficial Art of Odesa in the Second Half of the 20th Century”

    When:

    16.03 – 14.04.2024 

    Where:

    Kostenko St., 37, Kryvyi Rih, Grey Club House

    Kryvyi Rih Center for Contemporary Culture / KRCC, in partnership with Grey Club House, presents the exhibition “Three Hours: Unofficial Art of Odesa in the Second Half of the 20th Century.” The opening will take place on March 16 at 17:00. The exhibition features works from the private collection of Roman Yermolenko.

Artists Participating: Valentyn Khrushch, Yevhen Rakhmanin, Volodymyr Strelnikov, Viktor Pavlov, Volodymyr Tsyupko, Stanislav Sychov, Viktor Maryniuk, Oleh Sokolov, Oleksandr Stovbur, Valeriy Lukych, Ihor Bozhko, Leonid Voitsekhov, Anatoliy Asaba, Yuriy Kovalenko, Valentyn Sirenko, Valentyn Altanets, and others.

The term "Short Twentieth Century" reflects the transience of the modern world. However, the twentieth century was profoundly eventful, marked by world-changing occurrences: two world wars, civil, technological, and artistic revolutions. Amidst this whirlwind, Ukraine endured Soviet occupation and 70 years of terror.

The dogmas of socialist realism, which pervaded all official art in Soviet Ukraine, stifled creativity. In this suffocating environment of the 1960s, an underground art movement began to emerge, one of its brightest manifestations being the "Odesa Nonconformists."

Their first "fence exhibition" lasted only three hours, self-organized by the artists on the fence of the Odesa Opera House. This act was both a nonformal protest against the system and an artistic statement challenging the Soviet art establishment. Only later would events like the "Bulldozer Exhibition" follow.

Three hours were enough to ignite change in unofficial art.

Kryvyi Rih Center for Contemporary Culture / KRCC is a civic initiative dedicated to fostering culture, art, and creative industries in Kryvyi Rih. Its mission is to unlock the city’s cultural potential by creating an enabling environment for creative industries through the activities of the KRCC institution.

Grey Club House is an ultra-modern residential complex located in the heart of Kryvyi Rih.

Roman Yermolenko is a contemporary art collector, businessman, philanthropist, and cultural patron. He actively participates in cultural events in Kryvyi Rih and has initiated the city's largest construction project, reshaping its face and landscape.

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