Today at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War a collective exhibition opened “Kherson: NOT/stolen”.
A MOST correspondent attended the opening and filmed works that bring to life the memory of the lost heritage.
The project is dedicated to works stolen during the occupation from the Kherson Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Nearly 30 contemporary Ukrainian artists created homages to masterpieces stolen by Russians.
The project is dedicated to the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion and to the Day of Resistance to the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
Initially, the project, launched in 2024, focused on researching the lost collection of the Kherson museum. Now it is expanding and is intended to draw attention to all Ukrainian museums looted by Russian occupiers since 2014, when the occupation of Crimea began.
The main photograph for the exhibition — the work by Akhra Adzhindzhal «Homage to the painting by Heorhii Kurnakov “Sunny Day”».