Exhibitions

Personal exhibition of the artist Olha Kolomiiets
“Ukrainian Baroque in Olha Kolomiets’s vytynanky”
from the series “Laureates of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture,
heraldry, vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko”

    A personal exhibition of the works by Kropyvnytsky artist Olha Kolomiiets “Ukrainian Baroque in Olha Kolomiets’s vytynanky” was presented within a new museum art project of the series of art exhibitions “Laureates of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko” dedicated to the anniversary of a prominent architect Yakiv Pauchenko. The project is aimed at popularization of the creative work of artists – laureates of the award in the nomination “decorative and applied art” and presupposes organization of personal exhibitions and publication of themed booklets.
    Kolomiiets Olha Volodymyrivna was born on November 24, 1964 in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). Member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art (2011). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2012). Laureate of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology, and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “decorative and applied art” (2014).
    Graduated with honors from Ivanivsk Textile Institute named after M.V.Frunze (now Textile Institute of Ivanivsk State Polytechnic University, Russia) with a degree in “artistic design and modeling of items of textile and light industry” (1991).
    Worked as a designer of embroidery at Kirovohrad clothing factory “Ukraine”. In 1994, an exhibition of ceremonial rushnyks (embroidered towels), embroidered by the workers of the factory after her sketches, was presented in the Department of Art, in Kirovohrad Regional Universal Scientific Library named after D.I.Chyzhevskyi.
    A participant of town, regional, national, and international exhibitions of visual art and decorative and applied art. Personal exhibitions in Kropyvnytskyi: in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum “Step” (2005) and “Solo” (2011), Regional Local History Museum “Dialogue” (2006) and “Lace wonder” (2015), in Regional Art Museum “I Love Ukraine” (2015), Regional Center of Folk Art “Free Ukraine” (2014) and “Cossack Mamai” (2018).
    The works are kept in the regional Art and Local History museums, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, Dobrovelychkivka District Local History Museum, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The current personal exhibition of Olha Kolomiiets presents 27 vytynanky from the series “Birds”, “Cossacks”, and “Art heritage”, which are modern author’s interpretations of significant works of Ukrainian visual art and decorative and applied art, inspired by the ideas of Ukrainian Baroque of the 16th – 18th centuries, historical samples of which are icon painting, plant ornaments, and painting character Cossack Mamai, who is a sacral symbol of Ukrainian people. The works are kept in the collections of the leading museums of Ukraine – the National Art Museum, the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve, the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum”, and also the National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi, and Art Museum in Dnipro City, the Regional Local History Museum in Zaporizhzhia, Poltava Local History Museum named after Vasyl Krychevskyi.


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Poster of the exhibition

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Fragments of the exposition of the exhibition

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Guards
Series “Birds”
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Budimi
Series “Birds”
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Cossacks
Series“Cossacks”
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
The Zaporozhian Host
Based on Heorhii
Narbut’s works
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm

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Young Ukraine
Based on Heorhii
Narbut’s works
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
To M.Markevych. “Bandura
player, warm grey eagle…”

Based on T.H.Shevchenko’s
works
2014
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
From the collection
of O.O.Osmerkin
Art-Memorial Museum
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2017
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the painting «Cossack Mamai».
The 19th century from the collection
of the National Historical Museum
named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the folkpainting «Cossack Mamai».
The 18th century. The Poltava Oblast
from the collection of the National Center
of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum”

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Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on the painting «Cossack Mamai». The end of the 18th – the beginning if the 19th centuries from the collection of the Regional Local History Museum in Zaporizhzhia
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on the painting «Cossack Mamai». 19th century Kyiv Oblast from the collection of the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum”
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the painting «Cossack Mamai». The 18th century from the collection of The National Art Museum of Ukraine
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the painting «Cossack Mamai». The 19th century from the collection of the National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi

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Cossack who plays bandura
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the painting “Cossack who plays bandura”. The end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries from the collection of the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum”
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on the painting “Cossack who plays bandura”. The 18th century from the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Cossack who plays bandura
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on the painting “Cossack who plays bandura”. The 19th century from the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Cossack Mamai
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on the painting “Cossack Mamai”. The 19th century Chyhyryn District, the Cherkasy Oblast from the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine

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Christ Pantokrator
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on awallmosaics “Christ Pantokrator”. The 11th century from the collection of the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve
Mariia Oranta
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
50õ70 cm
Based on awallmosaics “Mariia Oranta”. The 11th century from the collection of the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve
Icon “Pochaivska”
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the icon “Pochaivska”. 1750 from the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Icon “Yelisavethradska”
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
70õ50 cm
Based on the icon “Yelisavethradska”. The 20thcentury in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, in Kropyvnytskyi Town

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Living fire
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
60õ80 cm
Based on the carpet of Halyna Isaieva “Flowers”. 1976 from the collection of the National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi
Grape vine
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
60õ80 cm
Based on the work by Paraska Pavlenko “A small carpet”. 1978 from the collection of  Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum
Freckles
Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
80õ60 cm
Based on the carpet with cartouch, the end of the 19th – the beginning o the 20th century, unknown manufacture in the Poltava Oblast, from the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art

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For the crown on St. John
the Baptist's Day

Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
60õ80 cm
Based on the work by P.Vlasenko “Flowerpot”.1935 from the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art
Bouquet of flower
to Trinity Sunday

Series «Art Heritage»
2018
Paper, vytynanka
technique (cutting)
80õ60 cm
Based on painted coffer. The 19th century Poltava Huberniia from the collection of Poltava Local History Museum named after Vasyl Krychevskyi