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Women at War

Published November 30, 2023

Women at War

 July 13 – October  28, 2023
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Women at War. Partial installation view, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2023. Photo Credit: Ivan Peñafiel.
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts was honored to present Women at War, curated by Monika Fabijanska and on loan from the Fridman Gallery (NYC), on view from July 13 to October 28, 2023. 

 
Women at War features works by a selection of the leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current war, as represented in art across media. Several works in the exhibition were made immediately following February 24, 2022, when Russia began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; others date from the eight years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” in Donbas in 2014.

 

War is central to history. History has been written (and painted) by men. This exhibition provides a platform for women narrators of history and also examines gendered perspectives of war. Many artists in this exhibition struggle with the notion of victimhood and pose the question in what way women have agency during war.
The exhibition, curated by Monika Fabijanska, was listed among ten best art exhibitions of 2022 by both The Washington Post and Frieze Magazine. Catalogs are available for purchase through the Fridman Gallery website. 

 

Olia Fedorova, Defense, 2017, photograph, 30 x 45 inches ©Olia Fedorova. Courtesy of the artist

Participating artists:

Yevgenia Belorusets

Oksana Chepelyk

Olia Fedorova

Alena Grom

Zhanna Kadyrova

Alevtina Kakhidze

Dana Kavelina

Lesia Khomenko

Vlada Ralko

Anna Scherbyna

Kateryna Yermolaeva