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Pinchuk Art Centre

Blue-chip contemporary in the first private museum in the former USSR

Nikita Kadan, Gazelka, 2015. Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2016. Photographer: Sergey Illin
Nikita Kadan, Gazelka, 2015. Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2016. Photographer: Sergey Illin

Within the span of a few years, Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk has asserted himself as one of the most powerful collectors on the international scene. He bought Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold), by Jeff Koons, for a reported 23.6 million dollars, and 99 Cent II Diptychon, by Andreas Gursky, for a reported 3.3 million dollars, setting a record price for both artists. Pinchuk has purchased other million-dollar artworks by the likes of blue-chip stars Peter Doig and Takashi Murakami. He reveals it all at his very popular Pinchuk Art Centre, founded in 2006, a colossal six-story building that was the first private museum opened in the former USSR; nearly a million visitors have already passed through its doors. “There is only one queue in the country,” Pinchuk told The New Yorker in 2009: “ours.”

Yevgen Samborsk, Father, 2017 (PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2018. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov
Yevgen Samborsk, Father, 2017 (PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2018. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov
Alina Kleitman, Ask a Mom, 2017–2018 (PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2018. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov
Alina Kleitman, Ask a Mom, 2017–2018 (PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2018. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov
Christian Boltanski, Babi Yar Way, 2016 (exhibition view, "Loss. Memories of Babi Yar" at Pinchuk Art Centre). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2016. Photographer: Sergey Illin
Christian Boltanski, Babi Yar Way, 2016 (exhibition view, "Loss. Memories of Babi Yar" at Pinchuk Art Centre). Courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2016. Photographer: Sergey Illin

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