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This is a catalogue of an exhibition to be opened at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) in 2020. Curated by Adriana Kochman.

The exhibition catalogue, prepared by UIMM and RODOVID publishing house, is published in two languages - English and Ukrainian, and includes more than 90 reproductions, biographies and author's text by art researchers Adriana Kochman and Vita Susak.

Mykhailo Andrienko-Nechytailo was born in Odesa, according to some sources, according to others - in Kherson, studied in Kherson and St. Petersburg, worked in Bucharest, Chisinau, Akkerman, Prague. Since childhood, he dreamed of living in Paris, and in 1923 this dream came true. Andrienko spent most of his life in an apartment on the rue Vaujirard. Charcoal sketches from the series «Disappearing Paris» show the city as the artist saw it.

In the 1920s, he was mainly engaged in theatre design; in the 30s, he exhibited in Paris, Berlin, London and Lviv; during the war, he hid his wife, a Jewish woman, Rikla Wizanska, from the Nazis; in the 50s, he travelled a lot and returned to abstraction in his painting; in the 60s, he published his first literary works - the novels Mice and Crossroads.

15 paintings by the modernist Andrienko from the Lviv Museum were destroyed in Soviet times as formal and abstract. Fortunately, many of his works have been preserved in museum and private collections in France, the United States, and other countries. A large collection of the artist's works was assembled by Oleksandra and Andriy Ilko, doctors from Chicago.

The catalogue of the exhibition MIKHAIL ANDRIENKO: THE RETURN is the most comprehensive presentation of the leading representative of Ukrainian modernism in Ukraine and the United States.