contributors

Kseniia Bilash

Culturologist, art critic, editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia of visual art wikiart.org

Alexander Sushinsky

Musicologist and theorist of contemporary art.

Alexandra Tryanova

Independent curator, founder of the Kunsthalle Lustdorf (Odesa, Ukraine) and ОО Neuer Shamir. Former curator of the Museum of Odessa Modern Art and Junior curator of PinchukArtCentre.

Alyona Nahaievschuk

Journalist, independent author. Focuses on contemporary art and culture.

Anna Aliyeva

Art historian, curator.

Anna Filippova

Culturologist, curator, art critic.

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand  is an arts writer and independent curator based in New York interested in feminisms, decolonial theory, and social practice. Ekstrand is the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes.

Anna Yukhymets

Writer, researcher, and editor who focuses mainly on visual culture studies and cultural theory. Based in Kyiv.

Annabel Keenan

Annabel Keenan is a New York-based art advisor and freelance writer.

Björn Geldhof

Artistic Director at PinchukArtCentre

Borys Filonenko

Art critic, curator and researcher. He is a lecturer at the Kharkiv School of Architecture, editor of ist publishing, and co-curator of the Fountain of Exhaustion project at the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Dmytro Kolos

Art critic. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Eva Kovač

Eva Kovač is an art historian, researcher, coordinator of artistic and cultural projects, and assistant artist manager based in Vienna, Austria.

Halyna Hleba

Art historian, curator, researcher of Ukrainian art and photography. Co-curator and executive editor of the Wartime Art Archive.

Helena Markou

Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University;PhD Researcher at the University of Stirling. Her professional career spans publishing, bookselling and digital media consultancy.

Irina Tofan

Art historian, contemporary art researcher.

Ivan Skoryna

Art critic and experimental electronic musician from Kyiv. Artslooker editor.

Karyna Vovkotrub

Art critic, researcher and project coordinator at Shcherbenko Art Centre.

Kateryna Iakovlenko

Kateryna Iakovlenko is a journalist, writer and contemporary art researcher.

Kateryna Tykhonenko

Kateryna Tykhonenko is an art manager, art critic, and media scientist based in Potsdam, Germany

Kateryna Volochniuk

Kateryna Volochniuk is an art historian and researcher; she is a PhD Сandidate at the University of St Andrews and a Researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice. 

Kathrin Heinrich

Kathrin Heinrich is an art historian and critic based in Vienna, Austria.

Kostiantyn Doroshenko

Critic, curator of contemporary art, publicist

Ksenia Malykh

Curator, researcher, and art historian. Manager of the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre.

Lina Romanukha

Culturologist, curator.

Milena Khomchenko

Cultural manager, writer, and interviewer of art medias.

Natasha Chychasova

Curator, cultural manager, and researcher who works mainly in the field of contemporary art with the themes of historical memory, the internal dynamics of artistic communities, institutional critique.

Nikita Kadan

Ukrainian artist, curator, and author. He is the laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Award of Ukraine in 2022. He works in various media, including installation, sculpture, painting, and collage. Photo courtesy: Voloshyn Gallery

Nikolay Karabinovych

Artist, curator. Works and lives in Ghent and Kyiv. 

Olga Shyshlova

Head of educational and inclusive programs at PinchukArtCentre.

Pavlo Khailo

Artist, researcher, and writer.

Roksolana Makar

Art historian, culturologist. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Sviatoslav Mykhailov

Interviewer, cultural manager, coordinator of the Shcherbenko Art Centre, and the manager of the Young Ukrainian Artist (MUHi) competition in 2019 and 2021.

Svitlana Libet

Author, editor and journalist. Since 2022, she has been working as a local producer for the BBC reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2019–2022, Svitlana worked as the Senior Editor of an online magazine Your Art. 

Tatiana Kochubinska

Tatiana Kochubinska is an independent curator and writer. In 2016–2019 she curated the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre aimed at creating a digital archive of Ukrainian contemporary art.

Tetiana Lysun

Art historian, author of the texts. Сo-curator of the Wartime Art Archive, curator of exhibition projects.

Ulyana Krucha

Art critic. Lives and works in Kharkiv.

Vadim Yakovlev

Queer writer, publicist

Valentina Iancu

A writer with studies in art history and image theory. Iancu works independently, between Bucharest and Berlin, devoting herself in particular to queer studies of contemporary art.

Valeriia Buradzhyieva

Curator, researcher.

Vita Popova

Art manager. Co-founder of the gallery "Kimnata", from 2015 to 2020 program curator of the gallery of contemporary art "Artsvit". Lives and works in Dnipro.

Yevheniia Butsykina

Сulturologist, art critic, PhD, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.