KEKHZ Artists — Biographical Lecture Series on Forgotten Masters
The museum opens a cycle of eight lectures on leading KEKHZ artists — from the world-famous Zhnykrup to forgotten masters whose works are in collections without author attribution.
In February 2026 the Kyiv Porcelain Museum opens a new lecture cycle 'KEKHZ Artists — Biographical Series'. Eight lectures, held every Wednesday during February-March, illuminate the life and work of leading author-sculptor artists of KEKHZ. The cycle includes separate portrait lectures: Oksana Zhnykrup (ballerinas, fairy-tale compositions); Valentyna Trehubova (Hohol subjects, animalistic groups); Dmytro Kobtsev (grotesque sculptural forms, experimental services); Volodymyr Shcherbyna (folkloric compositions based on Ukrainian songs).
A separate programme of the cycle is dedicated to the reconstruction of biographies of forgotten KEKHZ masters, whose names are not engraved in academic reference books, but whose works are in the museum's collections. These are artists of small author editions of the 1960s-1980s, who worked in the industrial rhythm of the factory and did not manage to receive a personal exhibition biography. The museum's research block cooperates with NAS of Ukraine and the Union of Artists in returning these masters to the cultural map. Each lecture opens a little-known Ukrainian fine-art history.
