Ada Rybachuk

Ada Fedorivna Rybachuk (June 27, 1931 – September 22, 2010) was a Ukraine/Soviet muralist, painter, sculptor and architect. She worked closely with her husband and came to notice when the authorities decided to cancel and destroy a work they had spent ten years creating.

Ada Rybachuk
BornJune 27, 1931
Kiev
DiedSeptember 22, 2010
Kiev
NationalityUkraine
OccupationArtist
Known forMurals
Spouse(s)Volodymyr Melnychenko

Life

Rybachuk was born in 1931 in Kiev. She studied at the Kiev State Art Institute which was led by O. Shovkunenko.[1]

In 1957 Rybachuk completed a sculpture, Shipboy, which shows a youth leaning from a rope ladder as if looking out to sea from a ship.[2] That year she was awarded the silver medal at the "6th world festival of youth and students".[3] She traveled to Armenia Russia and the Ukraine to broaden her studies.[3]

Rybachuk, Volodymyr Melnychenko and the architect Avraam Miletsky began work on a Park of Memory in Kiev. The Park of Memory was at the local crematorium at Baykoy Hill. The art work covered 2,000 square metres and involved several huge sculptures. Rybachuk and Melnychenko's art work was covered in concrete in 1982 by the authorities and was reported because of the size of this piece of censorship by the authorities. In 1988 Israel Goldstein made a documentary The Wall about their predicament and their campaign to have their work restored.[4]

Rybachuk and her husband worked in a wide range of media including their work at the Palace of Children and Youth in Slavy Square and the Central Bus Station in Kiev.[5]

Rybachuk died in 2010 in Kiev.[1] In 2019 there was an exhibition of her work from the 1950s to the 1970s featuring images completed with her husband. The designs were inspired by childhood and the exhibition was called Island. The island represents the gulf between youth and adulthood and between the artist and their censors.[6]

Exhibitions
  • Czechoslovakia (1957)[3]
  • United Arab Republic (1958)
  • Finland, Hungary, Yugoslavia (1961)
  • Italy (1962)
  • Iraq (1963)
  • Afghanistan (1964)
  • Poland (1967)
  • Norway (1993)
  • USA (1977, 1995)[3]

Private life

Rybachuk was married to her artistic partner Volodymyr Melnychenko.[1] In 2013 he created an exhibition in Kiev of their work for the National Academy of Arts.[5]

References
  1. "Soviet Mosaics in Ukraine Rybachuk Ada". Soviet Mosaics in Ukraine. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. "Ada Rybachuk (1931-2010) Shipboy. 1957". Soviet Art (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  3. "Ada Fedorovna Rybachuk - Biography, Interesting Facts, Famous Artworks". Arthive. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  4. "The Wall". travelling.docudays.ua. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  5. Agrest-Korotkova, Svitlana (2013). "Fragments of Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko's eternity". Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  6. "Ada Rybachuk and Vladimir Melnichenko. Isle". Arthive. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
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