Art studios on the topic:
"Frictions of contemporaries against the background of war"


    On March 31, 2022, the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum started the artistic project "Art Studios" on the theme: "Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war."
    Due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians found themselves under martial law. But the history of mankind shows that even under such circumstances creative life never stops, because even in the darkest hour there is always a ray of light. Yes, you can fight the enemy with art, which in all its manifestations is an excellent motivation in life.
    During the Second World War, the artist Oleksandr Osmerkin actively worked in the "TARS Windows" Defense Poster Workshop, created a series of portraits of military pilots, designed a theater performance, and painted many paintings. It was this biographical fact of the painter that prompted the museum scientists to restore the artistic project "Art Studios" and implement it according to the theme determined by life itself: "Portraits of contemporaries on the background of war." The curators of the project were Andryi Nadezhdin, a leading researcher of the museum, Honored Artist of Ukraine, and Olha Krasnopolska, an artist from Krypovnytskyi, the head of the fine arts department of the children's art school, who, since the beginning of the war, has been creating digital collages of a patriotic direction and actively demonstrating them on social networks.
    This museum art project has a long history and has already become traditional, because it is a kind of school of fine arts and a platform for communication between professional artists, amateurs and creative youth. This year, it is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of Oleksandr Osmyorkin and was to be held systematically several times a month. So, in February, the event was held twice - at the first "Art Studios", journalist Lilia Kocherga posed as a model in the museum interior, and the second time, artists gathered on February 23 and enthusiastically painted a portrait of psychologist Nina Chapran illuminated by bright sunlight in anticipation of the next on February 24, a creative meeting with the artist - ATO veteran Ihor Popovych. But the meeting never took place, because the war started "tomorrow".
    And although now there is only an old grand piano and chairs in the memorial hall of the museum, because the exhibition was dismantled in order to preserve paintings and other rare objects, these circumstances do not hinder artists, but on the contrary inspire them to creative work behind museum easels. Kropyvnytskyi artists Andriy Nadezhdin, Lyudmila and Oleksandr Demydenko, Yuriy Vintenko, Iryna Kuharenko, Olga Krasnopolska, Oleksandr Kiryanov, artists from Dnipro Maria Grim (Rakhmanova) and Oleksandr Vasylenko, armed with pencils, markers, gouache and watercolor paints, immerse themselves in the world of art , illuminated by goodness and light, joy and victory. Photographer Oleksandr Shuleshko captures this creative process.
    For the image, the artists choose a new nature every time - their fellow artists, journalists, local experts, employees of museums and other cultural institutions, young people, who are our contemporaries.
    Museum "Art Studios" is an open art event, which can be joined not only by professional artists, but also by everyone who is interested in visual arts and wants to feel the creative atmosphere that reigns in the house of the architect Yakov Pauchenko, where his nephew spent his childhood and youth in the future painting professor Oleksandr Osmerkin, and where a memorial museum of talented countrymen artists was later created.
     Adhering to the ideas that "Art is learned in a museum" and "Beauty will save the world", we will definitely win and "Everything will be Ukraine!".


Peaceful "Art Studios" February 23, 2022


Nina Chapran is a psychologist, researcher
at the Oleksandr Osmyorkin Memorial Art Museum

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" March 31, 2022


Andriy Nadezhdin is an
honored artist of Ukraine


 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" April 5, 2022


Olena Nikitina - deputy editor-in-chief
of the newspaper "Ukraine-Center"


 

"Art studios" April 7, 2022


Vita Chernova is the director
of the Oleksandr Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum



"Art studios" April 11, 2022


Yaroslav Petrynskyi - a participant and finalist of children's all-Ukrainian
and international chess tournaments, a candidate for master of sports in chess,
a student of the 8th grade of the Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium with his mother,
Victoria Petrynska, a leading specialist in the management of culture
and tourism of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council


 

"Art studios" April 15, 2022


Evgenia Malyavkina is the director of music school No. 1
named after Heinrich Neuhaus


 

"Art studios" April 20, 2022


Larisa Hosyainova is the director
of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary Literary Memorial Museum


 

"Art studios" April 28, 2022


Oleksandr Polyachok is the director
of the Karol Szymanovsky Museum of Musical Culture


 

"Art studios" May 5, 2022


Oleksandr Kiryanov is a teacher at the Oleksandr Osmerkin
Art School, an artist and a musician


Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko

 
 
 

"Art studios" May 6, 2022


Iryna Tokmanenko is the curator
of the Oleksandr Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum


 
 

"Art studios" on May 11, 2022


Fedir Shepel - local historian, journalist, laureate
of the Volodymyr Yastrebov regional local history award


 
 
 

"Art studios" on May 12, 2022


Maria Larchenko - journalist, TV presenter and editor of TV channels
in Kropyvnytskyi and Kyiv, author of TV and film scripts, laureate
of all-Ukrainian and international TV and radio festivals


 

"Art studios" on May 20, 2022 in the I.K.Karpenko-Kary Literary Memorial Museum


Folk group "Mlynochok" at the museum of musical culture named
after Karol Szymanovskyi: teacher of music school No. 3 Anna Lyakh,
teachers of the Kropyvnytskyi Music College Svitlana Kontsedalova
and Olena Panicheva, director of the museum Oleksandr Polyachok


 
 

 
 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" on May 25, 2022


Kateryna Koltunova - deputy of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council, co-founder
of the veteran volunteer space "Krop:hub", founder of the "Mir 2.0" project


 

"Art studios" on June 1, 2022 in the Kirovohrad regional clinical hospital for war veterans


Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - participants in hostilities:
Oleksandr Fabrika, Mykhailo Khimich, Yevhen Zhukov


 
 
 

"Art studios" June 2, 2022


Representatives of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine
in the Kirovohrad region: commander of department 1 of the State Fire
and Rescue Unit of the 1st State Fire and Rescue Squad, senior ensign Oleksandr Khorolskyi,
deputy head of the department of socio-humanitarian work and psychological support
of the activity support center, captain of the civil protection service Evgenia Pogribna,
head of the pyrotechnic work group of the emergency and rescue squad of the special purpose,
major of the civil protection service Oleg Filipov


 
 
 

Branch of JSC "National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine"
"Kropyvnytskyi Regional Directorate UA: KROPYVNYTSKY", TV program "News",
Anna Dobran's report "Portraits of contemporaries on the background of war"
June 18, 2022


"Art studios" June 7, 2022


Hryhoriy Kabengele is a volunteer of the Humanitarian Center
of the public organization "Territory of Success" in Kropyvnytskyi


 
 

 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" on June 14, 2022


Volunteers Victoria Kasyanova - head of the public organization
"Kirovohrad Oblast "Public Watch" and Oksana Chervonaya -
founder of the public initiative "Army SOS Kropyvnytskyi"


 


"Art studios" on June 16, 2022


Vasyl Bondar is an honored journalist of Ukraine, member of the National Union
of Writers of Ukraine, head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union
of Writers of Ukraine (1995-2015, 2016-2021), chief editor of the literary magazine "Tower"

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


 

 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" June 21, 2022


The head of the public organization "The United Family of Kropyvnychchyna" Olena Stepanok
is the widow of lieutenant colonel Volodymyr Stepanok, who perished in 2015 near the town of Debaltseve,
Donetsk region, the co-founders of the organization Alla Kondakova and Svitlana Volokhova -
the mothers of the fighters of the 3rd separate special forces regiment Oleksandr Kondakov
and Oleksiy Volokhov , who perished in 2014 near Mount Karachun in the area of Slavyansk, Donetsk region


 
 
 


"Art studios" June 28, 2022


Vadym Dovgoruk is a fighter of the 3rd separate special purpose regiment,
a participant in the battles near the town of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region in 2015,
during which he lost an arm and the feet of both legs. The leader of the band
"Ocean Elsa" Svyatoslav Vakarchuk dedicated his song "Moment" to him


 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" June 30, 2022


Volunteers of the Kirovohrad region: Nataliya Stroich - volunteer of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine in the Kirovohrad region, village Ustinivka; Viktoriya Yaremchuk is a member
of the public organization "Volunteer organization "Viktoria", the village of Dobrovelychkivka;
Tetyana Sila – the head of the public organization "Volunteer center "Together we are a Force", Kropyvnytskyi


 
 

"Art studios" July 5, 2022


Maria Matyunkina is a journalist of the Central Ukrainian Bureau
of News (CBN) Information Agency in Kropyvnytskyi



"Art studios" July 7, 2022


Young Kropivnytsia volunteers Varvara Khlevytska with
her mother Maryna and Matvia Rozinko with her mother Kateryna


 
 

Varvara Khlevytska is selling her own drawings
of flowers to buy body armor for the Ukrainian military


Matvii Rozinko plays the guitar on the streets of the city and
collects money, which he transfers to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine


"Art studios" July 12, 2022


Alla Stoyan - head of the public organization "Volunteer organization
"Victoria", village Dobrovelychkivka. Viktoriya Yatsenko - head of the department of culture, tourism,
youth and sports of the Executive Committee of the Pomichnya City Council,
organizer and leader of the volunteer movement in subordinate institutions


 

"Art studios" July 14, 2022


Representatives of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs,
which moved from Mariupol to Kropyvnytskyi: the head of the career
guidance department, police major Galina Izotova and 2nd-year cadet Neonila Derbal


 
 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


Report of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs
"Portrait of a contemporary against the background of war":
DonSUIA is a participant in the art project of the art-memorial museum"
https://youtu.be/K8g8B6Xk3JY


"Art studios" July 21, 2022


Representatives of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs,
which moved from Mariupol to Kropyvnytskyi: teacher of the department
of tactical and special training, police major Viktor Kovalenko and 4th-year cadet Kateryna Voronik


 
 

"Art studios" August 25, 2022


Colonel of the Civil Defense Service Volodymyr Protsenko -
Deputy Head of the Operational Coordination Center of the Main Directorate
of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations in Kirovohrad Oblast


 
 
 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" September 8, 2022


Nadiya Harmazii - candidate of philological sciences, laureate of Yevgeny Malaniuk
Regional Literary Award in the category "Poetry" (2019), member of the National Union
of Writers of Ukraine, head of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine


 
 

 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" February 1, 8, 2023


Mykola Barabulya - artistic director of the Aviator House of Culture
of the Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy of the National Aviation University


 
 
 

 

Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko


"Art studios" February 17, 2023
in the Tourist Information Center of the city of Kropyvnytskyi
with the participation of students and teachers of the Oleksandr Osmerkin
art school and the fine arts department of the children's art school


Lieutenant Valentyn Vovk is a participant in hostilities


 
 
 
 

Patriotic art project: in Kropyvnytskyi, artists painted a portrait of the defender of Ukraine.
Site of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council. February 17, 2023
https://kr-rada.gov.ua/news/patriotichniy-art-prokt-u-kropivnitskomu-hudozhniki-malyuvali-portret-zahisnika-ukrayini.html


"Art studios" July 14, 2023


Trio "Akolada" - Yevhen Romanov (piano), Yevheny Lebid (violin), Kyrylo Filatov (viola) -
graduates and students of the Lviv National Academy of Music named after Mykola Lysenko
performed the concert "Music that heals wounds" at the Kropyvnytskyi College of Music on July 12 2023


 
 
 

"Art studios" July 28, 2023


Maryna Yermolayeva is a poet, photographer, winner of the Valery Goncharenko regional competition
for the best literary works among young writers of Kirovohrad region (2020), laureate of the Leonid Narodovoy
Literary Prize (2023), member of the youth literary club "Lira", author's poems were published in all-Ukrainian
publications - the literary and artistic almanac "Sivach" (Kropyvnytskyi), the magazine "Bukovynskyi Zhurnal"
(Chernivtsi), a participant in the "Battle of Poets" project in the "Yelysavethrad" gallery (2017)
and the charity photo project for the needs of the Ukrainian military "Photo for donation" (2022)


 
 

"Art studios" August 4, 2023


Mykola Tupchienko - candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the department
of history, archaeology, information and archival affairs of the Central Ukrainian National
Technical University, member of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society, laureate of the regional prize
in the field of architecture, heraldry and vexillology and decorative and applied arts named
after Yakov Pauchenko in the nomination "heraldry and vexillology", head of the archaeological
section of the regional organization of the Society for the Protection of Monuments
of Ukraine, the author of numerous scientific works on archeology,
ethnology, museology, cultural studies and historical toponymy


 
 

"Art studios" August 18, 2023


Maksym Brychka is a poet, novelist, laureate of the Viktor Blyznets (2017) and Yuriy Yanovsky (2019)
literary awards, the author of the poetry collection "Meridians", his fairy tale "About Myron Obizhysvit
and the Horned Devil or the Terrible House and the White Angel" is published in the book -
Modern literature of the native land: a manual of the "School Library" series
for 5-7 grades of general secondary education institutions / emphasis.
Morschavka Yu. Kharkiv: Sunflower, 2020. 336 p., illustrations.
Viktor Krupskyi. Maksym Brychka: "They taught the classics, learned from fairy tales
and stories." Internet publication "Ukraine-Center". December 27, 2022
http://uc.kr.ua/2022/12/27/maksym-brychka-vchyly-klasyky-vchyvsya-na-kazkah-i-opovidkah/


 
 
 

"Art studios" September 1, 2023


Mykola Lomakin is an artist from Kharkiv, since the beginning of the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine, he moved to his hometown of Kropyvnytskyi and became a volunteer,
the author of the virtual graphic design exhibition "Immortal Cossack Glory", presented
for the Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Day of Defenders of Ukraine on October 14, 2022
at on the website of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum in the "Selected Exhibitions" section


 
 
 

"Art studios" September 8, 2023


Viktoriya Shkaboy is a writer, a journalist of the regional newspaper of the Kirovohrad region
"Narodne Slovo" (2011-2020), the author of the psychological novels "Sweet, Toxic, Misty",
"Deep Karolina", "Why Melissa?" (2023), winner of the regional literary contest "Khmarochos" (2018), finalist
of the international youth literary contest "Granoslov" (2021), laureate of the contest of young
Ukrainian writers "Smoloskip" (2022), finalist of the novel competition of the publishing
house "Vivat" (2023), a participant of art festivals as master embroiderer


 

"Art studios" November 17, 2023


Maria Taran is a creative volunteer, having an economic education, positions herself
with art, plays the guitar and sings at the events of public organizations "Hearts of Mothers
and War Veterans of Kropyvnytskyi", "Krop:hub", "Awakening" and others