What a superb list - I saw Kadyrova’s piece in Lviv - and today I met the young artist Valentina Guk in Kharkiv. We were talking about the decolonisation of Ukrainian culture - including the Chervona Ruta festival which Valentina told me celebrated Ukrainian music in cities like Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Simferopol back in the 1990s, attracting tens of thousands of fans. I would love to hear more about it… Thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful resources!
thank you, i am glad you liked it 🙏🏼 follow @Valeria Radkevych for more superb stuff like this. i am glad you’ve mentioned Chervona Ruta — it was a trailblazing festival responsible for fostering a new wave of Ukrainian musical renaissance in the 1990s. russia absolutely hated it and invested tons of money in “russifying” those artists by attracting them with fat moscow contracts to sing in russian. i definitely need to write about it
I think Ukrainian musical scene since the 1990s deserves a special shout out. I kept it out of my MA thesis, simply because it was impossible to mention everything, I had limited space. There is as much to Ukrainian music as a means of resistance as to the contemporary art, for sure
Amazing and powerful art! Thank you for sharing! I also love the works of Ukrainian artist Olia Fedorova: https://www.oliafedorova.com/works/anger-exercises
I have met Olia F in Kharkiv a few times! Her work really is amazing
She is so talented!
thank you, adore her work too!
What a superb list - I saw Kadyrova’s piece in Lviv - and today I met the young artist Valentina Guk in Kharkiv. We were talking about the decolonisation of Ukrainian culture - including the Chervona Ruta festival which Valentina told me celebrated Ukrainian music in cities like Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Simferopol back in the 1990s, attracting tens of thousands of fans. I would love to hear more about it… Thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful resources!
thank you, i am glad you liked it 🙏🏼 follow @Valeria Radkevych for more superb stuff like this. i am glad you’ve mentioned Chervona Ruta — it was a trailblazing festival responsible for fostering a new wave of Ukrainian musical renaissance in the 1990s. russia absolutely hated it and invested tons of money in “russifying” those artists by attracting them with fat moscow contracts to sing in russian. i definitely need to write about it
I think Ukrainian musical scene since the 1990s deserves a special shout out. I kept it out of my MA thesis, simply because it was impossible to mention everything, I had limited space. There is as much to Ukrainian music as a means of resistance as to the contemporary art, for sure