Ludmila Bereznitsky

Ludmila Bereznitsky (Kovel, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian art historian and critic focused on the establishment of interactive connections between contemporary art from Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Asia. Her efforts are directed at creating new frameworks for cultural exchange on an international level. Ludmila Bereznitsky is also a President of the EIDOS Foundation which supports young artists. She also works as an associate professor for art history and theory at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, and is also the head of two galleries for contemporary art.

Education

Since 1996 Ludmila Bereznitsky has been teaching history, world and Ukrainian culture in Kiev Linguistic Institute. Beside her work as tutor at the professorship for “Theory and History of Art”, she starts to organize Exhibitions on the basis of Ukrainian art at the beginning of the 90s. Later she started to work with Ukrainian artists who belong to the “New Wave” movement.

In 1994 Ludmila Bereznitsky found the L-Art Gallery, today's Bereznitsky Gallery in Kiev. During a decade she was collecting soviet art. This unique collection consists of over 500 works. Furthermore she extensively exhibits Ukrainian artists of the New Wave - Ukrainian transavantgarde. Among those artists are Alexander Gnilitsky, Arsen Savadov, Ilya Chichkan, Maksim Mamsikov, Visilij Tsagolov, Alexander Roitburd, Viktor Sidorenko, Igor Gusev and many others. As a result of this extensive work, Ludmila published a catalog “From Red to Yellow and Blue”, which presents the best works of the Soviet ideological art and presents art movements such as postimpressionism, neobaroque, neoprimitivism, Ukrainian metaphysics, postimpressionism and the Ukrainian New Wave. The Bereznitsky Gallery plays a very important role in integration of Ukrainian contemporary art into international art scene.

Eidos Arts Development Foundation

In 2005 Ludmila Bereznitsky together with Lubov Michaylova and Peter Bagriy founded Eidos Arts Development Foundation. The main objective of this non-governmental, non-profit organization is to create a base for representation and sponsorship of young Ukrainian artists and to give them an access to the international art scene. In 2006 EIDOS conducted the first Visual Art International Competition. The Competition’s main task is to search for new ideas and names, as well as support young artists’ initiatives which could appropriately represent Ukraine in the world art community.

Bereznitsky Gallery Berlin

An increased interest to contemporary art and a rapid development and fundamental changes of the art market creates an opportunity to collaborate with other cultures and countries. In 2006 Ludmila Bereznitsky opened the Bereznitsky Gallery Berlin. It is the first space in Berlin to represent contemporary Ukrainian art. The gallery presents the most exciting Ukrainian artists working today, making Eastern Europe’s lively yet neglected art scene accessible to a Western European audience for the first time.

Projects incepted, organised and curated by Ludmila Bereznitsky

Publications

Concept of Young Curators Competition "Art A Priori". Concept was implemented by Eidos Art Foundation on the same year.

Articles about projects and exhibitions curated or organised by Ludmila Bereznitsky

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