A list of Ukrainian art curators

About the curators

Cover image: ArtsLink Assembly 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 2022. Photo by Dominika Jaruga. Courtesy of CEC ArtsLink

Alisa Grishanova

Curator, National Center Ukrainian House.

Curator, researcher of the 20-21 century art.

Art historian, independent curator and researcher. In her practice, she researches modern and contemporary Ukrainian art, the representation of women in it, regional movements and underground collectives.

Andrii Dostliev

Curator, artist and researcher of photography.

Curator and researcher of media art, now in Lviv.

Media artist, researcher of Lviv and Ukrainian avant-garde, independent curator and architect.

Anna Gaidai is a curator and manager of cultural and educational projects in Ukraine and internationally. Her practice focuses on collaborative projects in visual art and multidisciplinary projects, residencies, community art projects, and cultural diplomacy.

Asia Bazdyrieva

Researcher and curator. Her interests are largely interdisciplinary and include cultural geography, research architecture, cultural and media theory.

Iryna Polikarchuk

Co-founder at Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, director at Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro).

Co-founder and program curator of Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, as well as the Dnipro-based international festival of contemporary experimental art and music Construction. She focuses on creating project concepts, curatorship, and management.

Curator, researcher.

Kateryna Iakovenko

Editor-in-chief of Suspilne Kultura, curator of contemporary art, writer and researcher of visual culture.

Kateryna Radchenko

Curator, artist and photography researcher based in Ukraine. Founder of Odesa Photo Days Festival.

Kateryna Taylor

Curator, founder and CEO Port. agency.

Curator and researcher.

Artist, cultural anthropologist, curator, essayist.

Lidia Apollonova

Curator, MOCA NGO. Co-curated "Ukraine. Out of Blackout" program.

Nastia Khlestova

Nastia Khlestova, now in Graz, Austria. Nastia is working with the topic of self-organization in contemporary art and the place of the emerging artist in the contemporary art process.

Nataliia Chychasova

Curator, the focus of her research interest are the themes of space memory, interrelations within the artistic communities, institutional critic and art mediation.

Oleksandr Soloviov

Curator of Contemporary Art at Mystetskyi Arsenal.

Oleksandra Pogrebnyak

Curator based in Kyiv. Her work focuses on curatorial practices, environmental art, and feminist art in Ukraine, particularly related to themes of war, memory, and displacement.

Oleksandra Osadcha

Researcher, curator.

Head of Museum Development department at Mystetskyi Arsenal, curator.

Open Place (Yulia Kostereva, now in Poland and Yuriy Kruchak, now in Ukraine) is an initiative of the artists, which is directed at the development of creative research and the establishment of the connections between an art process and different layers of the Ukrainian society.

Past / Future / Art (Kateryna Semenuik and Oksana Dovgopolova)

Researchers and curators, now in Ukraine.

Curator, collector and founder of Ya Gallery Art Center.

Artist and curator.

Tatiana Kochubinska

Curator, art writer, researcher and lecturer.

Tetyana Voloshyna

Curator, National Center Ukrainian House.

Valeria Schiller

Curator and critic, now in Berlin.

Viktoriia Velychko

Curator, researcher of futurism.

Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi

Photography curators, art managers.

Yuliia Berdiiarova

Art historian and curator.

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