A lecture by Olha Novikova
Many of the works in the exhibition "Beauties, Ghosts and
Samurai" were lent by the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National
Museum of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine. How did they get there in the
first place?
In this lecture Olha Novikova will focus on the popular culture of
Japan in Ukraine. The lecture will also cover the development of
Japanese studies and the collection of Japanese art in Ukraine in
the XIX-XXI centuries, the reception of Japanese art in Ukrainian
art and the history of the formation of the collection of Japanese
art in the Khanenko Museum.
Olha Novikova is the Head of the Eastern Art
Department of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of
Arts and the curator of the Museum's Ukiyo-e collection. She
completed her postgraduate studies at the National Academy of Arts
in Kyiv and received a PhD in art history; she has been working at
the Khanenko Museum for 10 years, researching Japanese woodblock
prints and elements of Japanese swords, and since 2023 has been
heading the Eastern Art Department at the museum. Novikova also
teaches courses on Eastern art at the Taras Shevchenko National
University in Kyiv and promotes Asian art in Ukraine.
Event will be held in English.
Entrance is free of charge.
The lecture accompanies the exhibition "Beauties, Ghosts and
Samurai. Japan's pop culture tradition from Edo period ukiyo-e to
20th-21st-century manga, anime and sūpā furatto", which is on show
at the National Gallery of Art until 13 October.
Photo by Yurii Stefanyak
19:00
The lecture by Olha Novikova, "Reception of Japanese popular culture in Ukrainian society" will be delivered on 8 August 2024 at 19:00 remotely at the National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos Ave 22, Vilnius.