While the construction of the main Museum House is in the plans, while the design work directed to the future continues, you can get your share of inspiration and aesthetics right now.
With the beginning of the war, all our forces are directed towards the approach of victory, but art isn’t put on pause. It finds its embodiment in creative thoughts.
To feel this mood is a gift.
That is why art remains relevant even during the terrible war that came to our land. Some works inspire, others enchant or make you stop and think.
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The collection of the First Private Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine, which includes 6,000 exhibits, arouses great interest in society among those who follow the artistic life of the country, those who are professionally involved in the study of specific time segments of the country’s artistic life, periods of creativity of particular artists. Each work is subject to individual consideration. And there is an understanding that Sergiy Viktorovych Tsyupko managed to preserve the most valuable artistic fund of the country, which had every reason to disappear.
The director of the museum, Oksana Koval, notes that today’s museum course is unchanged – replenishment of the collection, its popularization and, accordingly, the realization of ideas. Even the war did not stop the progressive movement of the institution, although this forced pause in the exhibition activity made it possible to focus on fund and restoration work, which is extremely important. At this time, we activated the “Art-Voyage” project, which, travelling through the museums of Ukraine, introduced the collection to the country’s regions and not only through exhibitions, but also by replenishing the local libraries with our art albums and catalogues.
While the construction of the main Museum House is in the plans, while the design work, directed to the future, continues, you can get your share of inspiration and aesthetics right now, because one more of our museum locations is starting its journey!
We are opening a “Museum Residence” in Kyiv at the address of Yevhena Konovaltsia st., 44 A. The new space of the museum designed to restore active exhibition work in the usual, traditional format. The territory of one and a half hundred meters of exhibition space will provide an opportunity to continue introduction to the collection. With the appearance of a new address, an opportunity arose to reproduce the projects created during the almost 20-year museum period, to fill the themes suggested by today’s time with new content.
“We live the life of our country and understand how attention to people and their needs in any form is necessary, – says the founder of the First Private Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine Sergiy Tsyupko. – By opening a new museum space, we are simultaneously continuing the program carried out by Sergiy Tsyupko’s Charitable Fund, regarding assistance to the families injured during military actions, the war that came to our home. Not forgetting the children, we made them happy with gifts for the New Year. I think that at the next stage of the museum’s history, on the new territory, we will find the ways to interest them in museum programs”.
“Museum Residence” is an opportunity to attract those who are inspired by artistic creativity, for whom the new location is an additional source not only of aesthetic content, but also a place of creative communication, professional discourse.
The name of Sergiy Viktorovych Tsyupko became iconic in the country’s artistic life. He was the one who opened the First Private Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine at the beginning of this century. Years passed, and somehow, in one of the conversations with the museum staff, we heard: “Renting even the most interesting premises that we had before is fine, but our Museum House is our own world! We will build our own premises”! The words of a person, who through charitable works became on the same level with the famous patrons of the past, have good reasons for implementation. A house for own collection is an embodiment of own vision, an opportunity to gather under one roof both a permanent exhibition and space to any exhibitions and projects, an opportunity to immerse yourself in the artistic atmosphere of creative diversity. And at the same time remember how each exhibit is connected with your own, the history of the acquisition, your involvement in it and then clearly feel that the business of life – this is it! High prospects, of course, are waiting for peacetime, but plans for building are laid down in technical and project documentation already today. Depicting the image of the House for the Art Collection, Sergiy Tsyupko is very picky about everything related to the institution’s professional functioning.
The new space opens with an exhibition of new arrivals. The time range is wide enough. It seemed interesting to select works that were donated or purchased by the museum. The exposition is like an intermediate summary of the work, which is important to record. The exhibition of works, which opens the new location, was named simply and concisely – “Receipts”. It seems that it will give a reason to make such reports periodically, updating the composition of participants from time to time.
Today, the list of names indicates the level of representation: L. Rapoport, I. Marchuk, M. Vaisberg, O. Milovzorov, O. Yerzhikovsky, O. Zakharchuk, N. Bondarenko, M. Storozhenko, N. Denisova , M. Mazur, D. Stetsko, families of Zhivotkov, Brovdi and Kotkov and many others, whose contribution to the artistic context of Ukraine’s history is bright. Thanks to the artists’ view, the time we live in, will be clear.
Launching the “Museum Residence”, Sergiy Tsyupko emphasizes: “Our plans for the Museum’s future remain valid. We are waiting for the war’s end, for creative recovery.”
Today is the time of the “Museum Residence”! We believe that the Kyivans and all who have become the part of the museum’s circle of friends long ago will like its chamber format. The new museum address is another page in the biography of the art institution, which is constantly working and building forward-looking plans. Each gradual step brings us closer to the common goal.
We wish them success! Good luck to the “Museum Residence”, happy creative journey!