Abstract
The article deals with the little-known and nonetheless vivid page of the history of informal Soviet art — «apartment exhibitions» in Odessa 60s–80s of the ХХth century. The article is outlined the main transformational processes of the development of the art of nonconformism, which laid the foundation for the emergence of the following trends of contemporary Ukrainian art. The main reasons for the emergence of socio-cultural phenomenon, an alternative ideology of socialist realism, that was first called «Odessa underground», and then got a more traditional name — «nonconformism».