“Plans Become Quite Irrelevant When a War Is Launched”: Inside the Ukrainian Art World’s Fight for Its Life

Opened in 2006, the Pinchuk Art Center in Kyiv is arguably the Ukrainian capital’s most important contemporary art space, home to the holdings of the billionaire pipe-part oligarch Victor Pinchuk, which include Jeff Koons’s Hanging Heart, for which he paid $23 million in 2007, the same year he spent $3.3 million on Andreas Gursky’s 99 Cent II Diptychon, making it, at the time, the most expensive photograph ever sold. The private museum’s current exhibition consists of works by artists nominated for the annual Future Generation Art Prize—which in the past has given early career accolades to artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby,… Read Full Article