The Ukrainian Institute has presented the project "The 60s. Lost Treasures" on the international online platform Google Arts & Culture, where a global audience can now explore unique examples of Ukraine's cultural heritage.
The project is part of the collection "Ukrainian Artists Through the Ages" and is dedicated to the Ukrainian women artists of the Sixties, whose work was partially or completely lost due to political repression and censorship during the Soviet era. The Sixties movement was a literary, artistic, and socio-political trend among Ukraine’s intellectual elite in the late 1950s to early 1970s, emerging during a period of temporary "thaw" in the Soviet regime. The Sixtiers advocated for the protection of national culture and language.
The collection on Google Arts & Culture highlights the creative work and life stories of representatives of this movement, including Alla Horska, Halyna Zubchenko, Lyubov Panchenko, Halyna Sevryk, and Lyudmila Semykina. These artists not only supported the dissident movement in Ukraine, suffering repression from the Soviet authorities, but also championed feminist ideals and each fought for women's rights in their own way.
'Ukrainian Artists Through the Ages' is part of the Ukraine is Here project on the Google Arts & Culture platform. This project, created in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, aims to preserve and popularize Ukrainian art and culture. Through interactive stories, virtual galleries, 3D models of historical artifacts, videos, and audio content, Ukrainian culture is now accessible to the entire world.
