Museum staff recorded an interview with renowned sculptor Anatolii Kushch

The Holodomor Museum staff met with renowned Ukrainian sculptor and People’s Artist of Ukraine Anatolii Kushch and recorded an interview with him. The master’s works are well known throughout Ukraine: Anatolii Kushch is the author of the Independence Monument, the sculpture of Archangel Michael, and the sculptural composition in honour of the founders of Kyiv on Independence Square, several monuments to Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine and abroad, and Ukrainian hetmans Pylyp Orlyk (Kyiv) and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (USA). But we, museum workers, were particularly interested in the sculptor’s creative legacy on the theme of the Holodomor and repression.

The meeting took place as part of Anatolii Kushch’s exhibition ‘Paradigm of Harmony,’ which is currently on display at the Lavra Art Gallery. It was here, among the artist’s numerous works, that the conversation took place, led by leading researcher Andrii Ivanets. The sculptor shared family stories about the Holodomor and the mass artificial famine of 1946–1947, which he personally experienced as a child, revealed details of his work on the monument to the 1933 Holodomor victims in Ukraine, installed in Chicago (USA), and talked about his other works on this theme.

We thank Serhii Isaienko, president of the Charitable Foundation “MiSt” named after Mykhailo Savenko, for his assistance in organising the interview. The conversation with Anatolii Kushch will be published on our website shortly.