The Last Masters 1990-2006 — End of the Factory Era

Exhibition

The Last Masters 1990-2006 — End of the Factory Era

Kyiv Porcelain Heritage Museum

The upcoming exhibition is devoted to the complex final period of the Kyiv Experimental Factory — the time when, amid the economic crisis of the 1990s and market transformations of the 2000s, the enterprise gradually faded toward closure in 2006. The exposition presents works by masters who worked in these difficult years: late author services with minimalist painting, sculptural portraits of contemporaries, ethnographic series from new regions (Sloboda, Pokuttia), experimental forms preparing the transition to private workshops. A separate section contains documents: final orders, factory wall-newspapers, photo chronicles of the 2006 closure, interviews with artists about their transition to private practice. The programme is supplemented by a dialogue on contemporary Ukrainian porcelain as a continuation of the Kyiv tradition.