Odesa Art Museum presents updated online archive

On June 8, the Odesa National Art Museum presented an updated online archive of documents that records the long history of Odesa art.

The second part of the event will be a conversation with art critic and performer Ute Kielter, who provided the museum with the most representative collection among our contemporaries.

The participants of the meeting discussed:

• digitized collections and updates on the online archive website;
• the value of digitalization during a full-scale invasion;
• how Ute collected her archive and why she transferred it to the museum;
• phenomena in contemporary Odesa art that Ute witnessed and participated in.

The meeting was moderated by Oleksiy Voronko, Digital Transformation and Grants Manager.

In April 2025, the Odesa National Art Museum hosted a screening of a film by artist and curator Ihor Husiev about the underground contemporary art gallery NORM, which existed in Odesa in 2008-2011. The film featured: Serhiy Anufriev, Anna Aliyeva, Leonid Voitsekhov, Igor Gusev, Dmytro Dulfan, Mykyta Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Ute Kielter, Stas Podlypsky, and Oleksandr Roitburd.

Also on April 12, the Odesa Regional Universal Scientific Library named after M. Hrushevsky presented Casey Michel' s book "American Kleptocracy" about the largest money laundering scheme in history. In his book, Casey Michel tells us the story of a "family" that personally contributed to an extremely large corruption scheme that ruined Cleveland. In addition to Yevhenia Genova, the speakers at the presentation included Yevhenia Virlych, editor-in-chief, journalist, and deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Headquarters, and the discussion was moderated by Ukrainian journalist, writer, and civic activist Zoya Kazanzhy.

Кирило Бойко