Coral Gables Museum Presents Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to Kyiv’s Art Revival

The Coral Gables Museum in Florida is the first stop of a major traveling exhibition, Painting in Excess: Kyiv’s Art Revival, 1985–1993. The show highlights a generation of Ukrainian avant-garde artists whose work reflected the new freedoms of the transitional period as Ukraine emerged from Soviet rule.

The exhibition has particular resonance today: the current war in Ukraine adds a unique urgency to these works, which embody a tumultuous time that nurtured the country’s independence.

Earlier in 2022, the show was on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, but many works from Ukrainian collections could not be returned due to the war. Thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the exhibition now travels to Coral Gables.

An opening reception took place on May 18, and the exhibition is on view from May 19 through October 30, 2022.

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