Julia + Maxim Voloshyn: Ukrainian Gallerists in Miami

Editor’s Note:  My friend, Miami-based art journalist Brett Sokol, wrote an article for the New York Times, dated 2/28/22, that caught my attention.

“The wife-and-husband gallerists Julia and Max Voloshyn had planned to return to Kyiv last week to open a new show at their space there. But with commercial air traffic halted as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, their stay in Miami — and the run of their pop-up exhibition there — was extended.

The show, titled “The Memory on Her Face,” features socially charged work by five Ukrainian artists. After arriving in Miami in November to run booths at two of the satellite art fairs held concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach — NADA and Untitled Art — the Voloshyns contracted Covid, postponing their return for a month. By mid-January, with several prominent Ukrainian art collectors coming to Miami in February, they mounted this impromptu show inside a small warehouse in the Allapattah neighborhood, with Untitled’s Omar Lopez-Chahoud as the curator.”

So, I visited the Voloshyns at their temporary Allapattah pop-up gallery and followed-up with a video interview via Zoom.

Founded in October 2016 in Kyev, Ukraine by JULIA AND MAXIM  VOLOSHYN, Voloshyn Gallery specializes in contemporary art. It showcases a broad range of media, hosting solo and group exhibitions and participating in leading contemporary art fairs worldwide. In 2015, the Voloshyns were included in the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Voloshyn Gallery is a member of The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

Voloshyn Gallery fosters the integration of Ukrainian art into global cultural processes. It presents a diverse exhibition program, as well as working in partnership with institutions, independent curators in realizing both on and off-site projects.

During the last two years, the gallery has participated in The Armory Show, Vienna Contemporary, Dallas Art Fair, Pulse Art Fair, Nada Miami, Untitled.Art, and EXPO CHICAGO. Zhanna Kadyrova’s solo presentation at the Voloshyn Gallery was awarded the Pulse Prize (2018) at the Pulse Art Fair.

Voloshyn Gallery’s primary exhibition space is located in Kyiv’s cultural and historical center, on Tereshchenkivska Street, in a historic 1913 building formerly owned by a renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist N.A. Tereshchenko.

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.