From October 4 to 5, the conference “Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters, Transnational Exchanges” will take place at the Vernom Square Campus of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Our research associate Lada Nakonechna is contributing a presentation on the 1920s at the Kiev Art Institute and modernist pedagogy.
Coinciding with the final stop of the touring exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (29 June – 13 October 2024), this international conference will bring together established and emerging scholars for a first-ever discussion dedicated exclusively to Ukraine’s visual culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be held outside Ukraine.
With a programme of academic papers and panel discussions dedicated to visual arts in a variety of media, the conference seeks to address the following questions: How did artists engage with indigenous pictorial traditions to construct Ukraine’s modern cultural identity? How did this engagement evolve under the changing political and ideological regimes? What intercultural and transnational encounters had informed the development of modern art in Ukraine? What is the legacy of Ukraine’s artistic modernism and what vision of the future can it offer?
Lada Nakonechna's lecture “'Directions of Modernist Pedagogy: The 1920s at the Kyiv Art Institute” can be heard as part of Panel II (Modernisms in Ukraine: Continuities, Ruptures, Legacies).
Further information and the complete schedule can be found at Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters, Transnational Exchanges - The Courtauld