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The festival "Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom" takes place in London for the first time, but aroused unprecedented interest of Britons

22/10/2013

The festival "Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom" takes place in London for the first time, but aroused unprecedented interest of Britons

  • The Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom took place in London on 17 to 19 October 2013. The three-day festival was organized by FIRTASH Foundation and sponsored by Group DF
  • Over 110,000 Londoners and city visitors attended the Days of Ukraine in the UK
  • Oleg Skrypka, the partner of the festival, Lord Risby, the Chairman of the British Ukrainian Society, Lada Firtash, the Chairperson of FIRTASH FOUNDATION, and Volodymyr Khandohiy, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK
  • The guests had an opportunity to feel the atmosphere of a Ukrainian settlement, with its trade-fair, traditional Cossack entertainment and cuisine
  • Thanks to the organizers of the festival, this weekend social and cultural life of London passed under the yellow-blue flag
  • Saatchi Gallery, the most prestigious modern art gallery in London, saw opening of the Ukrainian art exhibition
  • Saatchi Gallery featured paintings, installations and sculptures by 25 Ukrainian artists
  • To participate in the exhibition organizers of Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom have chosen the brightest representatives of Ukrainian contemporary art known in Ukraine and abroad, who have repeatedly demonstrated their work at international biennials, different exhibition projects and auctions
  • The organizers of the festival, the FIRTASH Foundation founders Dmitry and Lada Firtash, at the exhibition of Ukrainian modern artists in London
  • The exhibition features contemporary paintings, installations and sculptures of two generations of Ukrainian artists. Such a large-scale presentation of Ukrainian art in the UK is held for the first time
  • For Ukrainian artists it is not only an opportunity to reach a new level of representation, but also a way to get personal impressions
  • The festival "Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom" takes place in London for the first time, but aroused unprecedented interest of Britons
  • The exhibition of paintings showed the Europeans contemporary Ukrainian art
  • The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk speaking to journalists at the London Contemporary Art Gallery
  • The exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian artists was led by Igor Abramovich, the partner of the festival
  • Oleg Skrypka, one of the festival headliners, said that it was the largest festival in Europe he had ever seen promoting Ukraine as a country and revealing the Ukrainian spirit, and that it was truly unique and made Ukrainians proud of their country