Exhibition "Alisa Zaboi – The Youngest Sixtier"

During Ukraine's fight for independence, we constantly turn to the figures who fought for our right to exist. In the late 1950s and early 1970s, the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia, known as the shistdesyatnyky (Sixtiers), created a new, deeply national culture. Alisa Zaboi’s personality grew and formed within this circle.

From her student years, her life was connected with the Creative Youth Club and the legendary apartment of Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretsky on present-day Tereshchenkivska Street. Yet as early as 1968, Alisa Zaboi made an uncompromising choice: she signed the "Letter of 139" in defense of Viacheslav Chornovil and political prisoners.

The price of civic stance turned out to be high: expulsion from the Komsomol, threats, and a 20-year unwritten ban on exhibiting sculptures. But the artist continued to work with bronze — a metal whose strength and flexibility are so consonant with her own character.