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MG+MSUM | IN MEMORIAM | Oleksandr Rojtburd (Alexander Roitburd) (1961–2021)

 

With great sadness, we announce that Alexander Roitburd has died. Roytburd was born in 1961 in Odessa. He was one of the most important representatives of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theoretical group of the Ukrainian Transavantgarde, and also played a key role in the promotion of contemporary Ukrainian art around the world. Between 2018 and 2019 he was the director of the Museum of Art in Odessa. His iconic work, a video entitled The Psychedelic Invasion of the Potemkin Armor into Sergei Eisenstein’s 1998 Tautological Hallucinations, is part of the Arteast 2000+ collection.