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IN-PERSON AND ONLINE | CGIS-Knafel Building, 2nd Floor, Room K-262A lecture by Lizaveta German, curator, art historian, and co-founder of The Naked Room, Kyiv
LEARN MORE: https://www.huri.harvard.edu/event/lizaveta-german-gallery-with-forest-view-informal-art-spaces-ukraine-1960s-2025
In her talk, Lizaveta German will focus not only on artists’ biographies and artworks but also on how and where they managed to present their work to the public. She examines four key episodes in the history of Ukrainian art in the 20th century: the underground scene of the 1960s, the early years of state independence in the 1990s, the off-spaces and self-organization movements of the post-revolutionary 2000s–2010s, and the wartime art projects that have emerged since 2022. These four episodes each represent periods characterized by an intensive search for strategies of alternative artistic representation. This lecture demonstrates how independent artistic and curatorial practices have been the most effective strategies for resisting conformism and barriers to artistic expression in Ukraine throughout the past 70 years.
[Image: Installation view of works by Tamara Turliun, Everyone is Afraid of the Baker, But I Am Grateful, Irpin, Ukraine, 2022. Photo courtesy of Kateryna Iakovlenko.]
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