Yuriy Vakulenko

Vice-President of the NAA of Ukraine

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Yuriy Vakulenko

    born in 1957

Artist, Restorer
Position: Vice-President of the NAA of Ukraine

    Corresponding member (2021)

    Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine (2005)

    Associate Professor

Yuriy Vakulenko holds the following awards: Certificate of Honour of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2008), Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine (2011), Orders: "For Merit" 3rd class (2012), Order of Merit 2nd class (2020), Gold Medal of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture of Ukraine (2017), Silver Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2017). Chevalier of the Order of Carl Fabergé (2007). He has a Badge of Honour from the Head of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Director General of the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery".

The artist works in various spheres of Ukrainian art. Among the significant projects of Y. Vakulenko are the restoration of the church with paintings by Vasyl Tropinin in the village of Kukavka, Mohyliv-Podilskyi district, Vinnytsia region, as well as numerous and large-scale works on the restoration of monumental and easel paintings, wooden polychrome and stone sculptures, books and engravings, metal, ceramics, leather, and precious fabrics.
Y. Vakulenko is especially prolific as an artist in the last decade. In the period from 2007 to 2014, he held 12 solo exhibitions, among the most recent - "...Izmy" at the Museum of Contemporary Painting (2019, Dnipro city).
The works of Yurii Vakulenko are preserved in the museum collections of Ukraine, in particular, in the collection of the Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve and the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery".

Selected Works

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"Битва гігантів. Полювання на золотого птаха" 2009, 58 x 78 см

Biography

1957 — born on 19 November in Nizhniy Tagil (Russian Federation).1986 — graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute, Faculty of Restoration.2004 — Director General of the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art (since 2017 - National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery").2010 — Associate Professor of the Department of Expertise of the National Academy of Culture and Arts.2011 — Member of the Development Council of the National Cultural, Art and Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.Since 2022 – Vice President of the NAA of Ukraine.

Research Papers:

● "Femina. Metamorphosis. The image of a woman in the fine arts of the first third of the 20th century" (2007)● "Wilhelm Kotarbiński. 1849-1921: Paintings and Graphics from the Museums of Ukraine and Private Collections of Kyiv" (2010)● "Scenography" (author-compiler of the exhibition catalogue) and many others.