Kazimir Malevich: The Artistic Heritage of Ukraine

During one of the humanitarian days of the module, the participants of PMBA-31, together with Tetiana Filevska, Creative Director of the Ukrainian Institute and Co-founder of the Malevich Institute NGO, and a graduate of the CEO development program at kmbs, explored the work of the Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich. During his lifetime, photography and video cameras emerged—technologies that could capture reality better than any painter. So what, then, is the role of art? Malevich argued that art should create new dimensions, a new reality, but never copy it. That is precisely why his work marks a turning point in the history of art, and the "Black Square" stands as the manifesto of this new approach. We are sharing the summary of this lecture. His radical rejection of copying past forms changed not only design or architecture but also the very logic of creating the new. The "Black Square" became the symbol of "new art." It speaks to the ability to cut away the excess, to abandon the depiction of objects, and to work with ideas at the level of strategic systems.