Olexander Rojtburd

Style: Transavantgarde;

Place: Odesa

Born: 1961

Death: 2021

Biography:

Alexander Roitburd was born in Odesa in 1961. He graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Odesa Pedagogical Institute in 1983. With a strong presence at the Ukrainian cultural landscape, he was an Odesa-born, Ukrainian-Jewish contemporary artist. In the early 1990s, the USSR as the social framework that subtended Soviet-Ukrainian art fell apart. Though one cannot reduce Soviet art to socialist realism or classical-style painting, the post-modernity of Ukrainian contemporary art has formed in contrast to the former phenomenon. In this respect, Roitburd's painting was post-modern in this sense. He co-founded the New Art Association in Odesa in 1993. From 1993 he worked as its art director and from 1999 to 2001 as president. He worked as the director of the Marat Gelman Gallery in Kyiv. Rojtburd had personal exhibitions in Ukraine, the USA, and the Russian Federation. He was also a member of the Council for the Development of the National Cultural, Artistic and Museum Complex 'Art Arsenal' in Ukraine. At the Kyiv Book Arsenal 2016, a room with large-format provocative works was dedicated to his work. From March 2018 to 8 August 2021 he was the director of the Odesa Art Museum. He died from cancer in Kyiv on 8 August 2021.