New Ukrainian art during the war

Tanja Muravskaja (b. 1978) is an artist who deals with the themes of identity and memory and the relationship between society and its members in her work. He mainly focuses on photography, creating psychological portraits of individuals, society and places. Muravskaja studied photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts (2002–2010) and Westminster University (2004–2005) and journalism at Tallinn University. His works belong to the permanent collection of the Estonian Art Museum and the Tartu Art Museum. In 2018, Muravskaja was awarded the Köler Prize of the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, and in 2019, the V class medal of the White Star. His recent exhibitions are “Statecraft” (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), 2022), “Politics in Art” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow (MOCAK), 2022), “A word close to the soul” (Tallinn City Museum, Russian Museum, 2022), “Art in the comfort zone? Nullindad in Estonian Art” (Kumu Art Museum, 2022) and solo exhibition “Tanja’s Gardens” (WIELS Contemporary Art Center Project Room, Brussels, 2023).

Exhibition “Futuromarennia. Ukraine and the Avant-Garde” presents innovative artistic visions of the future that were born in the historical areas of Ukraine in 1910-1920. in years. The exhibition exhibits works that contain radical dreams of the future in painting and cinema, stage design, architecture and literature. The exhibition lays the groundwork for a critical post-colonial reassessment of the history of the Western and Russian avant-garde, and highlights the peculiarities of Ukrainian artistic life and its connections with the international development of the first decades of the 20th century. The co-organizer of the exhibition is Mõstetskõi Arsenal (Kiev, Ukraine).