Oleksandr Rojtburd

About the Author:

Oleksandr Roytburd. Artist photo
Oleksandr Rojtburd
Odesa, Ukraine

Oleksandr Rojtburd (1961-2021) was a Ukrainian artist, photographer, author of objects and installations, art curator, director of Odesa Fine Arts Museum. One of the leaders of the “Waves” of Ukrainian transavantgarde. Alumni of art-graphic faculty of the Odessa Pedagogical Institute (1983), member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1989), representative of South Ukrainian art school. One of the founders of Ukrainian postmodernism, co-founder of the “New Art” Odesa association (1994). Chairman of the Soros Contemporary Art Center, Odesa (1997-1999). He lived and worked in New York for 2 years from 2000 and participated in the 49th Venice Biennale. Oleksandr Roitburd was a director at Odesa Fine Arts Museum.

Bookshelf
by Boris Kokotov

This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023.  (Russian edition)

by Marina Eskin (Eskina)

“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)

by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

by Nina Kossman

A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.

“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal

by Maria Galina

A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.

by Ian Probstein

A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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