They came to Munich on adventurous routes from Kyiv. These and other works of art have now been sold at the “Full House Art” benefit pop-up exhibition – and bring in almost 30,000 euros, which will go to two Ukrainian aid organizations.
A full house in poker is not a bad hand, to put it mildly. Mon Muellerschoen from the online platform Wunderkunst and Peter Hansen, founder of the Max33 initiative and chairman of the Villa Stuck development association, wanted nothing less than a full house at their charity event in aid of Ukraine. Together with the art dealer Kateryna Vozianova from Kyiv, they organized a pop-up exhibition in the former premises of a piano shop in Lehel. Along with the contemporary art from Kyiv, works by young artists from Munich were also offered for sale.
Perhaps to make it clear what it was all about, a large portrait of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Suse Kohler greeted the vernissage guests. In the spacious rooms provided free of charge by the real estate investors Legat, they not only came across pictures by up-and-coming German and largely unknown Ukrainian artists, but also works by some established contemporaries who made their works available for a good cause and donated a good portion of the sales proceeds.
At least 50, sometimes even 100 percent of the proceeds went to two aid organizations in Ukraine: one that supports mothers and children in need, another that supports Ukrainian artists in need. Both Munich’s cultural adviser Anton Biebl and the Consul General of the Ukraine in Munich Yarmilko Yuriy rushed to the side of the three exhibition organizers to promote the good cause, who worked pro bono and had also won a large number of sponsors to guarantee an illustrious vernissage that hope for good sales.
Those were then too. The fact that things went so well was perhaps not only due to the often highly interesting works of art, but also to the Ukrainian art dealer’s heartbreaking escape story. She had brought the first works from her gallery out of the country with her lower arm, so to speak, and brought others across the border rolled up in plastic sewage pipes. In the end, 21 of the works of art were sold, so that almost 30,000 euros could be transferred to the Ukrainian aid organizations. That’s really nice for a “quick shot”, as Mon Muellerschoen commented on the “Full House Art” pop-up exhibition, which only lasted a few days.