NAÏVE is the names, images and contexts of the modern female naïve art of Ukraine and the UK in a form of an exhibition and an edition of the same title. Naïve art of two countries has been formed in different historical, cultural, political and social conditions, yet its representatives are equally sharp in their response to the topical challenges of the global society. She Is an Artist: Significant Naïve Art in the UK and Ukraine project is a platform that studies female amateur art on the opposite sides of Europe. Artists and visual culture experts reveal common and different, personal and political, traditional and new features in the modern female naïve art.

PROJECT TEAM:
Curator — Pavlo Gudimov
Coordinators — Anna Gudimova, Artem Braichenko
Technical Director — Yurii Horpynych
Research — Marina Bogush
Editor — Nataliia Yakubchak
Design — Kateryna Bolshakova
Photography — Maksym Bilousov
Translation — Dmytro Yankovyi
PR and Communication — Anna Burdina,
Svitlana Velegan
NAÏVE is the names, images and contexts of the modern female naïve art of Ukraine and the UK in a form of an exhibition and an edition of the same title. Naïve art of two countries has been formed in different historical, cultural, political and social conditions, yet its representatives are equally sharp in their response to the topical challenges of the global society. She Is an Artist: Significant Naïve Art in the UK and Ukraine project is a platform that studies female amateur art on the opposite sides of Europe. Artists and visual culture experts reveal common and different, personal and political, traditional and new features in the modern female naïve art.

PROJECT TEAM:
Curator — Pavlo Gudimov
Coordinators — Anna Gudimova, Artem Braichenko
Technical Director — Yurii Horpynych
Research — Marina Bogush
Editor — Nataliia Yakubchak
Design — Kateryna Bolshakova
Photography — Maksym Bilousov
Translation — Dmytro Yankovyi
PR and Communication — Anna Burdina,
Svitlana Velegan
The book is about women in modern naïve art of Ukraine and Britain. It contains the biographies and works of 15 female artists, as well as the texts of Ukrainian researchers about the history and practice of female art in world culture.
The book is about women in modern naïve art of Ukraine and Britain. It contains the biographies and works of 15 female artists, as well as the texts of Ukrainian researchers about the history and practice of female art in world culture.
For support:
© 2020 Pavel Gudimov Art Center I Gallery
Anastasiia Yerofieieva
The Choice, 2021,
oil on canvas, 130х80
Iryna Vyshnevska, When People Are Dancing in Ceadir-Lunga, Flowers in the Sky Are Blooming (diptych, part 1), 2017, acrylic on old carpet, 118х149
Iryna Vyshnevska, When People Are Dancing in Ceadir-Lunga, Flowers in the Sky Are Blooming (diptych, part 2), 2017, acrylic on old carpet, 118х129
Mariia Charuta
9, 2020,
acrylic on canvas, 70х70
Oleksandra Tertyshna
Untitled, 2021, gouache on cardboard, 29.7х21
Olena Nebesna
On Sunday on Zhytnii Market, 2020, acrylic and marker pens on paper, 42x59.4
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