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