Photo: Siim Lõvi /ERR
On Thursday, April 6, the KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn (Estonia) opened the exhibition "Futurism. Ukraine and the avant-garde". This was reported by the national broadcaster of Estonia, ERR.
As noted by ERR, the exhibition "presents innovative artistic visions of the future that arose in Ukraine in the 1910s and 1920s." These are "radical dreams about the future" in painting, cinematography, scenography, architecture, and literature of Alexandra Exter, David Burliuk, Vasyl Yermilov, and other artists.
The collection of the Ukrainian avant-garde presented at the KUMU exhibition is part of the exhibition presented 2 years ago in Kyiv at the National Cultural, Art Arsenal Complex . At that time, this exhibition had more than 500 exhibits.
The exhibits collected in Tallinn belong to Ukrainian museums that continued their work during the war. The exhibition curators are Olga Melnyk, Ihor Oksametny and Viktoriya Velychko, and the co-organizer is Art Arsenal.
As the director of KUMU, Kadi Polli, said, she was worried when the war started and asked if the exhibition could be brought to the museum in Tallinn.
"The exhibition presents works that were brought from many Ukrainian museums. And the fact that all of them are from the war zone, and it was possible to do this - KUU has never had such an experience," said Kadi Polli.
