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, with loans from the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine.

The touring exhibition In the Eye of the Storm would not be possible without the support of Museums for Ukraine, an initiative founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, to provide much-needed assistance to museums, curators, and artists in the war zone.

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

AROUND THE EXHIBITION

GUIDED TOURS

18.11.2023 | In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (NL)

Guided tour for adults by Chantal Clercx

30.11.2023 | Broodje Brussel (NL)

Guided tour by Marianne Knop

30.11.2023 | In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (FR)

Guided tour for adults

20.01.2024 | In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (EN)

Guided tour for adults by Chantal Clercx

CONFeRENCES

03.12.2023 | In the Eye of the Storm: Musées en guerre (FR)

Conference by Jean-Philippe Theyskens

The crisis situations caused by war have always threatened many museums. But the urgent need to save people, works of art and buildings has also given rise to extraordinary initiatives in conservation, restoration and cultural mediation, as we can see from historical cases in our own country, close to us (time and space) or... dramatically current (In The Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s).

MASTERCLASS

01.12.2023 | In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s (NL)

Masterclass by Marianne Knop - in collaboration with Amarant