Renovated Museum-Workshop of Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko Reopens in Kyiv

On May 11, 2024, the ARVM Foundation announced the opening of the Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko museum-workshop. Last year, on the initiative of the Kyiv restaurant Pure & Naive, the organization raised 1 million UAH for the reorganization of the space.

Now, the workshop at Malopidvalna Street 10B invites viewers to "witness the gradual birth of the museum." Under the title NON-FINITO, the first exhibition will showcase "unfinished works that still retain the warmth of the artists' hands." The outlines of this exhibition are already visible in the current arrangement of works in the museum.

At the museum's opening, visitors learned about the changes in the space, the updated exhibition project, and the artist couple's life and work history. The couple signed all their works with the acronym ARVM.

The museum-workshop is open for visits on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 12:00 to 19:00.

Volodymyr Melnychenko (1932–2023) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artist who worked with architecture, sculpture, painting, graphics, monumental art (mosaics, ceramics, metal, etc.), as well as art photography. He authored scripts for the documentary films "At the Cemetery of Shot Illusions" (directed by Oksana Mykhailova, 1989) and "Bird's Cry" (directed by Israel Goldstein, 1990). He passed away on April 19, 2023, at the age of 91.

Ada Rybachuk (1931–2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artist who worked with monumental art, painting, and graphics, often in tandem with Melnychenko. Their most famous works include a series of panels in the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth the Central Bus Station in Kyiv, as well as the Memorial Park at Baikove Cemetery. The artists developed the concept of the entire park, the farewell halls, and the bas-reliefs of the Memory Wall.
 

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