Support Ukraine at this immersive exhibit in Denver, tomorrow only.
. Visitors will select donation tiers ranging from $30 to $90 in place of purchasing a ticket;the show will be projected within the existingexhibition, allowing viewers to see both exhibits during their hour-long visit. The Kahlo exhibition is forty minutes long. was not scheduled to debut in North America until September 2022, but the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine propelled the release forward.
“Shevchenko is for Ukrainian culture a step above what Shakespeare is for the English language,” Kostyuk explains. Shevchenko’s tumultuous life saw him create upwards of 1,000 paintings, 800 of which survive today, and countless pieces of literature. He was imprisoned by, and was not allowed to write or draw for most of that time. He died four years after his release.
Similarities between the plights of Shevchenko’s Ukraine and the present-day country are inescapable. Servers located in Kyiv hold the exhibition's files, which are being remotely extracted by producer Natalia Delieva, creative director Tais Poda and curator-consultant Dmytro Stus. Simultaneously, Shevchenko’s works are being shipped out of Kyiv and Odessa in shipping containers that were used 81 years ago to transport the very same works away from Nazi destruction.