Construction

1918–1920

A workshop of decorative and applied art in Kyiv

Passionate about decorative and applied art — designs on dresses, shawls, tablecloths, cushions, screens and lampshades — she opens, together with I. Rabinovich, a teaching and production workshop where P. Tchelitchew, Alexander Tyshler, Vadym Meller, Anatol Petrytsky, Kliment Red'ko, N. Shifrin, A. Petrovich, Nikritin and others work.

1920

Moves to Moscow

She leaves Kyiv, where she had lived since 1905–1906, and moves to Moscow.

1921

The “5x5=25” exhibition in Moscow

Her work is displayed alongside that of other Constructivist artists at the “5x5=25” exhibition; in the same year she becomes director of the elementary course “Color” at VKhUTEMAS, a post she holds until 1924.

1924

Emigrates to France

She and her husband emigrate to France and settle in Paris; she will never return to Soviet Russia.

spring 1924

The Soviet pavilion at the Venice Biennale

In the spring of 1924 she travels to Venice to take part in organising the 14th Venice Biennale and the Soviet pavilion; most of her works are not shown but appear in the catalogue, and for the entrance hall on the pavilion's second floor she creates a special painting inspired by Venice.

1925–1930

Teaches at Léger's Académie d'Art Contemporain

At Fernand Léger's invitation she teaches at the Académie d'Art Contemporain in Paris from 1925 to 1930; other accounts say she first taught at the Académie Moderne and from 1926 to 1930 at Léger's Académie d'Art Contemporain.