Oleksandr Rojtburd Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

At the Kyiv Book Arsenal 2016, a room with large-format provocative works was dedicated to his work. From March 2018 to 4 September 2019 he was the director of the Odesa Art Museum.

Aside from ironic, highly stylized, self-consciously painterly artistic works, his legacy includes the results of his local museum director activities. Further into the past, he exhibited a rhetorical involvement via Facebook commentaries and demonstration participation in the events of 2013-2014 in Ukraine’s capital.

He co-founded the New Art Association in Odesa in 1993. From 1993 he worked as its art director and from 1999 to 2001 as president.

In the early 1990s, the USSR as the social framework that subtended Soviet-Ukrainian art fell apart. Though one cannot reduce Soviet art to socialist realism or classical-style painting, the post-modernity of Ukrainian contemporary art has formed in contrast to the former phenomenon. In this respect, Rojtburd’s painting was post-modern in this sense.

Oleksandr Rojtburd (Ukrainian: Олександр Анатолійович Ройтбурд; 14 October 1961, Odesa, USSR – 8 August 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist, among other things with video and photo projects. He belongs to the first wave of post-independence, post-Soviet, and post-traditional Ukrainian artists.

Olexander Rojtburd was born in Odesa in 1961. He graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Odesa Pedagogical Institute in 1983. With a strong presence at the Ukrainian cultural landscape, he was an Odesa-born, Ukrainian-Jewish contemporary artist.