The Atelier Karas Gallery (the Gallery, for short) was opened in 1995. However, according to its director Yevgeny Karas, the idea of a gallery was conceived by his family, a family of artists, as early as in 1986. It was then when rooms were found for the future gallery.
The Union of Artists provided Yevgeny's parents with an entire building floor for a studio: the total area was around 200 square metres (7,500 square feet). "We wanted to create a kind of a space for developing interesting, creative ideas. To create a cultural environment for communication of like-minded people, a platform for a beautiful life," remembers Mr. Karas.
However, the creation of this "space" started from serious renovations. The point is that the Karas family of artists was unfortunate to get one of the oldest and neglected houses of the mid-19th century in Andreyevsky Descent: smashed windows, sagged ceiling, cracked walls, and moulding disfigured by time and paint. The building required not just repairs, but a restoration. However, even after the rooms had acquired the appropriate appearance, some time passed before they became "a space for developing ... creative ideas".
Up to 1995, knowledge in the area of contemporary art was being acquired. The future gallery director sought to understand what was going on in the visual art of Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and America. Besides that, it was necessary to thoroughly study the "Ukrainian situation": art movements, infrastructure, communities, names, and ratings. It was decided to exhibit works of Ukrainian artists only. A database was being created: information on artists, photographs of their works, and texts on the theory and history of art were being collected. Later, a list of the most interesting and serious artists was compiled. And since 1995, these artists have been frequently invited to take part in exhibition programmes, which had been already developed by that time.
The Gallery has created one of the best systematic collections of Ukrainian contemporary art, which is regularly presented on prestigious art forums: over 100 works by over 60 Ukrainian artists including such famous ones as Oleg Tistol, O. Zhyvotkov, O. Dubovik, Marina Skugareva, Tibery Silvashi, O. Babak, Vasily Zhelay, Aleksandr Reutburd, P. Makov, D. Kavsan, V. Tsyupko, Anatoly Krivolap, G. Grigoryeva, Matvey Vaisberg, Pyotr Lebedinets, Pyotr Bevza, Oleksandr Sukholit, Vladimir Bovkun, Vasily Tsagolov, Igor Podolchak, Vladislav Shereshevsky, Igor Yanovich, Sergey Barich, Mark Geyko, Vlada Ralko, M. Krivenko, Yury Solomko, and many others.
The Museum of One Street (the Museum, for short) is dedicated to the history of Andreyevsky Descent, the street known, due to a saying by Viktor Nekrasov, as "...the most Kievan street in Kiev". It is a private museum.
Two rooms of the Museum's permanent exhibition contain hundreds of authentic antiques: books, paintings, furniture and clothes, ...
Viacheslav Chornovil, a Hero of Ukraine, would be 65 years old on 24th December, 2002. This day, a museum was opened in his study situated in the building of People's Movement of Ukraine. The Museum has documents, photographs and personal things of the prominent journalist, politician, and fighter for independence of Ukraine.
The Museum expositi...
The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts was founded in 1919 and was based on their private museum.
Having become a student at the law faculty of the Moscow University, Bohdan Khanenko acquired the first exhibits of his collection. In 1897, he became the head of the Kiev Society of Antiques and Art and was one of the founders of the Nation...
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