Ukrainian New Wave

In international art, the term "New Wave" is referring to the period of creative renewal that unites a wide range of movements of the late 1970s and 1980s, associated with the manifestations of postmodernism in design, architecture, cinematography, music and literature.

[3] The basis for the movement was a new generation of artists (born in the 1960s) who were just beginning their careers and were no longer under pressure from the authorities, which coincided with the liberalization of the "perestroika" era and the reduction of the collective's influence on the individual.

They sought inspiration in the samples of the classical avant-garde, neo-avant-garde, western modernism, Italian transavantgarde, postmodernism, neoclassicism, folk art, and others.

From 2002 to 2004, there was a local branch of Guelman Gallery in Kiyv managed by Oleksandr Rojtburd where presented Ukrainian New Wave artists Arsen Savadov, Oleg Golosiy, Valerya Trubina and other.

Among them are Mykola Babak, Illya Chichkan, Oleksandr Hnylytskyi, Olena Golub, Pavlo Kerestey, Vlad Khart, Yuri Kosin, Les Podervianskyi, Ihor Podolchak, Oleksandr Rojtburd, Vasiliy Ryabchenko, Arsen Savadov, Andrii Sahaidakovskyi, Sergei Sviatchenko, Marina Skugareva, Feodosiy Tetianych, Oleg Tistol, Glib Viches, Nicholas Zalevsky, Alexander Zhyvotkov and other.