Kyiv Art Institute (KHI) Ukrainian: Київський художній інститут, Russian: Киевский художественный институт (1924–1930) was the Ukrainian state art and technical high school which is the historical inheritor of Ukrainian Academy of Arts which was founded at December 5, 1917, in Kyiv by the Central Rada of Ukrainian People's Republic.
[2] In 1925 KHI got a new building of former Kyiv Theological Seminary (where it is located today as National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture) this helped to open new departments: film and photography, printing, sculpture and pedagogical.
The development the KHI was facilitated by the activity of rector Ivan Vrona, who was updating its pedagogical staff in 1924–1930.
He invited famous avant-garde artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Victor Palmov, Pavel Golubyatnikov,[3][4] and turned Kyiv Art Institute into one of the most progressive higher education institutions in Europe in the 1920s, along with the Bauhaus.
[5] In addition, at the KHI already had been teaching: Mykhailo Boychuk, Alexander Bogomazov, Fedir Krychevsky, Vadym Meller, Sophiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Leo Kramarenko, Vasyl Krichevsky, Andriy Taran.