The expanded Sixties: thinking about post-war Ukrainian Sixties then and now | Kultura 2024

Lizaveta German, co-founder of the Naked Room art gallery in Kyiv and co-curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia in 2021, explains how the post-war period of 1960s resonates with us today.

The artistic scene in Ukraine was marked by contradictions, with tensions between official and nonofficial, public and private, state-commissioned and banned art. While artists in Kyiv and Odesa were long under Soviet rule, those in Lviv and Uzhhorod had different cultural backgrounds until annexation in 1939 and 1945. The ‘Sixties’, with its relative liberalisation, unified these diverse art scenes, forming the foundation of what is now recognised as contemporary art.

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