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Ukrainian art ‘transported like refugees’ on show in Coventry
An exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art, featuring work created during the invasion of the country, is to go on show.
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The collection from artists who both remained in the country or fled as refugees, has been put together by Alexandra Churakova, previously the manager of the Forsa art gallery in Kyiv.
She left the country at the onset of war and now lives with a family in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which started on 24 February, was a deliberate attempt to destroy the country’s people and culture, she said.
“But we still have it inside ourselves, we are not going to forget it,” she added.
Co-curator Anna Nesterenko described how she had gone to the Polish border in order to pick up some of the artworks that had travelled “the same way that any refugee would.”
They had been “created in bomb shelters under constant shelling, on the routes out of the country and in safety but dread and agony for loved ones,” she said.
“Days on the road via ruined and mined roads, under constant threat of bombardment, hour-long queues at the border, through a foreign country, and eventually, by plane.”
She hoped the exhibition would help remind people of the ongoing war.
“The situation is not getting any better and people still need help now.”
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