Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Highlighting a range of artistic styles and diverse cultural identities, In the Eye of the Storm features over sixty works, most of which are on loan from the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine to safeguard them during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The exhibition brings together works by artists such as Kazymyr Malevych, Alexandra Exter and El Lissitzky, as well as by lesser-known figures, including Oleksandr Bohomazov, Sarah Shor and Mykhailo Boichuk, all of whom have left an indelible mark on the country's art and culture.

Organised by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, the Belvedere Museum, Vienna and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in partnership with the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

Curators: Konstantin Akinsha (freelance art historian and curator), Katia Denysova (art historian and doctoral candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London), Olena Kashuba-Volvach (Curator of 19th and early 20th-Century Art, NAMU) & Francisca Vandepitte (Senior Curator of the Modern Art collection, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium).

Credits : Alexandra Exter, Three Female Figures, oil on canvas, 1909-1910, National Art Museum of Ukraine, inv. Ж-1769