The Ukrainian Museum Shows the First Ever Exhibition of Borys Kosarev Works

artwork: Borys Kosarev - "Makeup design for a production of R. Pobedimsky’s play Khubeane", 1923 - Color paper, cardboard - 22 x 21 cm. Collection of Nadia B. Kosareva. -  On view at the Ukrainian Museum, NY in "Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931" until May 2nd 2012.


New York City.- The Ukrainian Museum in New York City is proud to present “Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931”, the first ever exhibition of the artist’s works. The exhibition will be on view from December 4th through May 2nd 2012. “Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931” includes 82 works on paper by Kosarev, an outsider of the Eastern European Modernist movement and a survivor of Stalin’s intellectual purges in 1930s Ukraine. Organized by The Ukrainian Museum (New York), the Kharkiv Art Museum (Ukraine), and Rodovid Gallery (Ukraine), the objects in this exhibition are drawn from the collections of Nadia Kosareva (Kharkiv), the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Kharkiv Art Museum, Borys and Tetiana Grynyov (Kharkiv), the VovaTania Gallery (Kharkiv), Dmytro Horbachov (Kyiv), and Oleksander Myzhin (Kharkiv).

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