Visual Art/Literature
Go-to Ukrainian Art Books for everyone
Cover image: Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art, PinchukArtCentre Research Platform. Graphic design by Aliona Solomadina
A list of books
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories — Art from Ukraine
Edited by Museum de Fundatie and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. 2023, Waanders Publishers
Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime
Ievgeniia Gubkina. 2024, DOM publishers
Ukraine Rising. Contemporary Creative Culture from Ukraine
Edited by Lucia Bondar. 2023, gestalten
Beyond Greener Grass: Strategies Towards Ukrainian Transnational Cultural Reconstruction
Edited by Anastasiia Manuliak and Mariia Volchonok. 2023
Russian Cultural Diplomacy under Putin. Rossotrudnichestvo, the “Russkiy Mir” Foundation, and the Gorchakov Fund in 2007–2022
Edited by Nadiia Koval and Denys Tereshchenko. 2023, ibidem Press
Ukraine! Unmuted
Mykola Riabchuk, Vitaly Portnikov, Iaroslava Strikha, Kateryna Botanova, Diana Klochko, Taras Lyuty, Ivan Kozlenko, Jurko Proсhasko, Zoya Zvinyatskivska, Yurko Vovkohon. 2023
Old Khata Book. A Photo Book About Houses and People
Anna Ilchenko, Svitlana Oslavska. 2023
Russian Colonialism 101
Maksym Eristavi. 2023, ist publishing
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s
Konstantin Akinsha. 2023, Thames & Hudson
Limits of Collaboration: Art, Ethics, and Donbas
Victoria Donovan, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Viktor “Corwic” Zasypkin, Oleksandr Kuchynskyi, Kateryna Siryk. 2022, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Ukraine
Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021
Edited by Svitlana Biedarieva. 2021, IBIDEM PRESS
The Art Of Ukrainian Sixties
Olha Balashova, Lizaveta Herman. 2020, Osnovy Publishing
Amazing stories of Crimea
Alim Aliev, Oleksa Haiworonski, Olga Melnyk, Olena Onogda, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Anna Pohribna, Svitlana Tsurkan, Viktoriya Velichko. 2019, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Today That Never Happened
Olga Balashova, Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Yevhen Nyshchuk, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Kateryna Tykhonenko, Kateryna Filyuk. 2017, Mystetskyi Arsenal
KIRILL PROTSENKO. IMPASSIONED
Oleksandr Solovyov, Ksenia Malykh, Nadiya Prygodych, Vitaliy Bardetskyi, Ivan Moskalenko, Kostiantyn Doroshenko. 2018, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance
Aleksei Borisionok, Vika Biran, Mischa Gabowitsch, Volha Davydik, Andrei Dureika, Anastasia Makarevich, Marina Naprushkina, Olesya Ostrovska-Luita, Olia Sosnovskaya, Antonina Stebur, Maxim Tyminko, Julia Cimafiejeva, Aliaxey Talstou, Almira Ousmanova, Sergey Shabohin, Olga Shparaga. 2021, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Andriy Sahaidakovsky. Scenery. Welcome!
Olesia Ostrovska-Luita, Borys Filonenko, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksander Soloviov. 2020, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Instant time
Piotr Armyanovski, Olena Afanasyeva, Yuliya Vaganova, Lia Dostlieva & Andrii Dostliev, Anatol Zvizhynsky, Gamlet Zinkivsky, Georgiy Kasyanov, Vlodko Kaufman, Max Kovalchuk, Rostyslav Koterlin, Yuriy Koch, Olha Pohribna-Koch, Tetyana Pavlova, Sergiy Petlyuk, Julia Polunina-But, Ihor Podolchak, Nadia Prygodych, Kateryna Tykhonenko, Krolikowski Art. 2018, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Obabich
Yulia Vaganova, Jerzy Onuch, Gwendolyn Sasse. 2019, Mystetskyi Arsenal
FLASHBACK. UKRAINIAN MEDIA ART OF 1990’S
Oleksander Soloviov, Solomia Savchuk, Ianina Prudenko, Kateryna Stukalova. 2018, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Imprint. Ukrainian printmaking of the XX – XXI centuries
Iryna Borovets, Yuliya Vaganova, Olga Lagutenko, Polina Limina, Kateryna Pidhaina, Oleh Sydor-Hibelynda. 2020, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Artwork. Texts
Asia Bazdyreva, Kateryna Botanova, Anton Drobovych, Tamara Zlobina, Alevtyna Kakhidze, Maria Kulikovska, Alisa Lozhkina, Ewa Sulek, Iryna Stasiuk, Igor Pietraszewski. 2017, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Kurbas: New Worlds
Virlana Tkacz, Yaryna Tsymbal, Tetiana Rudenko, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta. 2018, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Ukrainian-Austrian Art Residency (UAAR) 2021
2021, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Permanent Revolution: Art in Ukraine, the 20th to the Early 21st Century
Alisa Lozhkina. 2020, ArtHuss
Alexander Dubovik. The Signs
Kateryna Tsyhykalo, Jean-Claude Marcadé. 2021, Osnovy Publishing
Borys Kosarev. Modernist Kharkiv 1915-1931
Myroslava M. Mudrak, Valentyna Chechyk, Tetiana Pavlova. 2011, Rodovid
Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art
Lidiia Apollonova, Kateryna Badianova, Lizaveta German, Halyna Hleba, Olena Hodenko, Tatiana Kochubinska, Kateryna Mishchenko, Vlada Ralko, Valeriia Schiller, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Tetiana Zhmurko. 2019, Publish Pro
ANATOLIY KRYVOLAP and the Ukrainian Sublime
Jennifer Cahn. 2015, Rodovid
Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics
Yevgen Nikiforov, Olga N. Balashova, German Lizaveta. 2017, Osnovy Publishing
Pavlo Makov. Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta
Borys Filonenko, Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Beth Joselow, Vlada Ralko, Stanislav Turina, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Serhii Zhadan, Taras Prokhasko, Pavlo Makov. 2022, ist publishing
NA4JOPM8
Igor Chekachkov, Oleksandr Mykhed. 2021, ist publishing
Where Curating Is: The Artist-As-Curator and the Curator-As-Artist in Ukraine From the 1980s to the 2010s
Kateryna Nosko, Valeria Lukyanets. 2018, ist publishing
Znak. Ukrainian Trademarks 1960—1980
U, N, A collective (Uliana Bychenkova, Nika Kudinova, Aliona Solomadina). 2019, ist publishing
Do Po
Pavlo Makov. 2018, ist publishing
Max Vityk. Hallucinations
Max Vityk. 2019, Rodovid
I still feel sorry when I throw away food. Grandma used to tell me stories about Holodomor
Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostliev / Serhiy Zhadan, introduction. 2019, Rodovid
Parcommune. Place. Community. Phenomenon
Kostyantyn Doroshenko, Ksenia Malykh, Tatiana Kochubinska, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Tetiana Zhmurko. 2019, Publish Pro Ltd., PinchukArtCentre
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991 – 2021
Matthew Rojansky, Georgiy Kasianov and Mykhailo Minakov. 2021, ibidem Press
Kateryna
Taras Shevchenko. 2018, Osnovy Publishing
Kazimir Malevich. Kyiv Aspect
Tetyana Filevska. 2019, Rodovid
Michel Andreenko: Revisited
Adrienne Kochman and Vita Susak. 2020, Rodovid
Orthodox Chic
Alex Bykov, Oleksandr Burlaka, Sasha Kurmaz. 2020, Osnovy Publishing
Kirill Golovchenko. Out of the Blue
Kirill Golovchenko. 2016, Rodovid
ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: PASSPORT
Alexander Chekmenev. 2017, Dewi Lewis Publishing
Sergey Melnitchenko. From Dusk Till Dawn
Sergey Melnitchenko. 2018, Rodovid
Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s
Myroslava M. Mudrak and Tetiana Rudenko. 2015, Rodovid
Sergey Kamennoy. The Album of the Discharged Soldier
Sergey Kamennoy, Olga Kamennoy and Mykola Shtok. 2017, Rodovid
The Imaginative World of Heorhii Narbut and the Making of a Ukrainian Brand
Myroslava M. Mudrak. 2020, Rodovid
The Ukrainian Academy of Art. A Brief History
Olena Kashuba-Volvach. 2015, Rodovid
Ukrainian Artists in Paris. 1900-1939
Vita Susak, 2010, Rodovid
Ukrainian Suprematism
Sergey Kamennoy. 2021, Rodovid
PAYSAGES INSTABLES. Des artistes ukrainiens entre révolution et guerre
Natalia Chermalykh. 2015, Rodovid
Avant-garde art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: contested memory
Myroslav Shkandrij. 2019, Academic Studies Press
Superfluous women: art, feminism, and revolution in twenty-first-century Ukraine
Jessica Zychowicz. 2020, University of Toronto Press
The world to come: Ukrainian images of the Last Judgment
Liliya Berezhnaya, John-Paul Himka. 2014, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Tsars and Cossacks: a study in iconography
Serhii Plokhy. 2003, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
A Painter from Ukraine: Ilya Repin
Thomas M. Prymak. 2013, Canadian Slavonic Papers
Harvard Ukrainian Studues, volume 36 (Number 3–4), Ukrainian Modernism
2019, Harvard Ukrainian Studies
Ukraine: Art for Architecture
Yevgen Nikiforov, Polina Baitsym. 2020. DOM Publishers
Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993
Asia Bazdyrieva, Alisa Lozhkina, Olena Martynyuk (editor), Oleksandr Soloviov. 2021, Rutgers University Press
At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019
Svitlana Biedarieva, Hanna Deikun, Mykola Ridnyi, Uilleam Blacker, Olesya Khromeychuk, Maryna Rabinovych, Ricardo Macias Cardoso, Lada Nakonechna, Yevgenia Belorusets, Oleksandra Gaidai. 2020, Editorial 17
Illustration in Ukraine
Lucia Bondar. 2021, CP Publishing
The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in Ukraine
Myroslava Mudrak. 2018, Rodovid
OLEKSANDRA EKSTER
Georgy Kovalenko. 2021, Rodovid
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