Special Collection (NAMU)

The 'Special Collection' of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) was established in 1937, and it contains some of the best works of the Ukrainian avant-garde and monumental art. The collection is comprised mostly of paintings and graphics that were considered inappropriate and unacceptable by the regime. They were collected by the secret police over a two-year period from museum in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv and Poltava and were slated to be destroyed. However, they were preserved secretly in the museum, remaining hidden from the public eye during the Soviet period. Many of the artists represented in the collection were either repressed or executed for “formalism” or “bourgeois nationalism,” and many of their names were undeservedly forgotten until the late 1980s.

乌克兰国家艺术博物馆（NAMU）的‘特别收藏’成立于1937年，该收藏汇集了乌克兰前卫艺术和纪念碑艺术的杰出作品。这一收藏主要由被认为不符合当权者审美的绘画和图形构成。这些作品在为期两年的秘密警察收集期间，从哈尔科夫、敖德萨、基辅和波尔塔瓦的博物馆中搜集而来，原计划被销毁。然而，它们被秘密保存在博物馆中，在苏联时期一直隐藏于公众视野之外。收藏中所展示的许多艺术家因‘形式主义’或‘资产阶级民族主义’而被打压或处决，他们的名字在20世纪80年代末之前不当地被遗忘。