According to the Interfax-Ukraine Culture project, the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery” opened the exhibition “Andriy Chebykin. MASTER AND WORKSHOP,” dedicated to the 80th birthday of Ukrainian graphic artist, educator, and academician Andriy Chebykin, the museum’s press service reports.
“The exhibition, organized to mark the master’s 80th birthday, does not sum up his career or erect a monument. Before us is the living creativity of an artist who continues to feel the thrill every time he picks up a brush or pencil,” the organizers note.
The exhibition is structured not as a retrospective but as a space for a living creative process—it combines Chebykin’s own works with those of his students, demonstrating the formation of the modern Ukrainian graphic arts school.
The exhibition is centered on two key themes of the artist: Woman and Nature. Through landscapes and the nude genre, the artist explores femininity, the fragility of existence, and states between calm and storm, virtue and desire.
Viewers are presented with the evolution of Chebykin’s work—from the classic etchings of the 1970s–1980s to the Crimean watercolors and refined nudes of the 1990s–2000s. Among the landmark works is “Premonitions” (2015–2020), which reflects on historical turning points and the power of love.
A separate section of the exhibition features the artist’s latest works, created amid the conditions of full-scale war. In particular, the drawing “The Enemy Was Shot Down Over Tatarka” (2022), a reaction to the shelling of Kyiv; the canvas “A Great Nation Is Being Born” (2023); and the new work “Purification” (2026), in which the artist shares a premonition of peace.
The exhibition also features the artist’s Carpathian impressions and reflections on the events of the current war.
A separate section of the project consists of works by graduates of Chebykin’s Free Graphics Workshop. As the organizers note, over 300 students have passed through his school during his 55 years of teaching at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, and the exhibition illustrates the educator’s guiding principle—the development of creative individuality.
The exhibition opening will take place on April 14 at 4:00 p.m. and will run until May 17, 2026.
The project was implemented under the direction of Yuriy Vakulenko, with Oksana Pidsukha serving as curator.
As reported, from April 6 to 10, the capital is hosting concerts, exhibitions, theater productions, and Easter events that make up the city’s cultural calendar.
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