The exhibition “Foretypes” by Anatoly Kryvolap is open in M17 CAC, Kyiv, Ukraine

On 11 April 2024, the exhibition “Foretypes” by Ukrainian artist Anatoly Kryvolap opened at the M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.

The uniqueness of the exhibition at the M17 CAC is in its unity, as it is the first to combine Kryvolap’s abstract works of the period from the 1990s to early 2000s with icons created over the past year. The exhibition will run at the M17 Contemporary Art Center until 9 June 2024.

“At the age of 22, I knew I would be an abstractionist. I came across some abstraction, and I got a chill, a shiver… I was even scared, because it was 1969, or even earlier, before I entered the institute. Abstraction is a rather complicated thing. You need to know academicism so well in order to be able to use everything that the academic system brings – the theme, the mood, the plasticity – in abstraction.” – Anatoly Kryvolap, Ukrainian Artist

“I believe that it is worth coming to this exhibition every week to soak in the life-giving colours of spring itself. “Foretypes” revitalise. This is exactly the kind of art that gives us joy of life.” – Natalia Shpytkovska, Director of M17 Contemporary Art Center

“After “Zhyvopysnyi Zapovidnyk”, Kryvolap immerses himself in radical experiments. The abstract compositions he was working on at the time were becoming more and more like free practice, oscillating between the orderliness of horizontal stripes and the arbitrariness of colour splashes. All attempts to find any realistic reminiscences are in vain: the viewer is confronted with a new reality that will be associated with the artist’s name from now on.” – Valeriy Sakharuk, Curator of the “Foretypes” exhibition, Art Historian

The exhibition is supported by the Art Support Fund and Adamovskiy Foundation.

Media partners: Harper’s Bazaar, Suspilne Kultura, Radio Kultura.

Welcome to the exhibition! 

Address: 102-104 V. Antonovycha St., Kyiv, Ukraine

Tuesday-Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm

Admission fees:

Full price ticket = 100 UAH

Concessions = 70 UAH

Purchase tickets online here.