Following Russia's invasion in February 2022, Odesa became a target, and in July 2023, a rocket hit its Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Thankfully, director Igor Poronyk stored the museum's paintings safely before the attack. As conditions in the emergency storage worsened, a collaboration with Germans emerged, initiated by Ralph Gleis who proposed an exhibition in Berlin. In September 2023, valuable artworks were transported to Berlin, garnering support from German officials as an act of solidarity amidst ongoing cultural destruction in Ukraine.
It was only much later that I saw the conditions under which they were stored. The conditions were not optimal.
It is very important to me to help my Ukrainian colleagues... Cultural assets, Ukrainian cultural assets, are being actively destroyed and annihilated.
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