6 February 2025 – 27 April 2025
The Ukrainian Museum New York is pleased to announce the inaugural solo exhibition of Vladimir Tatlin’s work in North America, entitled Tatlin: Kyiv, running from 6th February – 27th April 2025.
Vladimir Tatlin (Ukrainian: Volodymyr), the prominent avant-garde artist and founder of Constructivism, was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and lived and worked in Kyiv from 1925 until 1927. This pioneering exhibition will recreate the artist’s Kyiv studio and chronicle the work made during this period within the museum space, depicting the actual environment in which his art was conceived and created for the very first time. Tatlin: Kyiv will serve as an educational catalyst for the decolonization of Ukrainian art through the lens of Tatlin’s work, contributing to the preservation of Ukrainian history and cultural discourse.
Tatlin’s illustration and design work with local Kyiv journals, book publishers, and theatre productions will also be highlighted for the first time. Additionally, the work of artists who studied under Tatlin at the Kyiv Institute of Art, where he taught a multi-disciplinary class that combined sculpture, film, and photography, will be on show. Tatlin: Kyiv will reexamine a major gap in the discourse of art history to include Tatlin’s work of the late 1920s.
