Oksana Barshynova, Deputy Director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, is an art historian, curator, and researcher studying contemporary art and the history of Ukrainian art in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century. She is codeveloper of the new concept for exhibiting modern and contemporary art at NAMU and the author of many articles on the history of Ukrainian art.
Tetyana Filevska is the Creative Director of the Ukrainian Institute. She is a specialist in the field of contemporary art and a researcher of Ukrainian art of the 20th century as well as a founder and curator of various art projects. She is author of the books Kazimir Malevich. Kyiv Period 1928-1930, Kazimir Malevich. Kyiv Aspect and Dmytro Gorbachov. Sluchayi. She is a graduate from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and has worked in the EIDOS Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, in the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation, in the "Izolyatsia" - Platform for Cultural Initiatives as well as in the Mystetskyi Arsenal and was part of the team of the Educational and Public Program of The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art "ARSENALE 2012".
Nadia Kaabi-Linke was born in Tunis in 1978 and spent her childhood in Tunis, Kyiv, Sharjah, and Dubai until she graduated from Fine Arts in Tunis in 1999. After that, she transferred to the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where she received her doctorate in 2008. Her biography is shaped by migration histories reflected in her artistic work, which often explores places and their discontinued histories. She is primarily concerned with the physical effects of what usually remains invisible or unnoticed: people, structures, or power imbalances. In addition to institutional solo exhibitions at Darat al Funun in Jordan (2020), Izoliatsiya, Kyiv (2019), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2017), Dallas Contemporary in Texas, USA (2015), Mosaic Rooms, London (2014) or Centro Arte Moderna - Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2014), her work has also appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul.
Lada Nakonechna is an artist and researcher. In addition to her personal practice, she is involved in a number of group projects and collectives. She is a member of the R.E.P. group (since 2005), part of the curatorial and activist union Hudrada (since 2008), cofounder of Method Fund (2015) and co-curator of its educational and research programs. In 2016 she also joined the new editorial board of the Internet journal of art, literature and politics Prostory.net.ua. Nakonechna's artworks, which often take the form of installations incorporating drawing, photographs and text, call attention to methods of recognition and reveal the internal aspects of visual and verbal structures. Her latest artistic investigations are based on artistic and archival materials related to the art of Socialist Realism-understood as a "method" and institutional and educational system. In 2021 she realised a personal exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine titled "Disciplined vision" dealing with it`s collection of Socialist Realism landscape paintings. In 2014 she received the Kazimir Malevich Art Award.
Daria Prydybailo is curator, art historian, founder of the NGO Art Matters Ukraine and TRSHCHN platform. In 2019-2020 she was an editor of the TransitoryWhite Magazine. Her background includes experience in leading cultural institutions of Ukraine such as National museum complex Mystetskyi Arsenal and CCA PinchukArtCentre, as well as independent curatorial practice with a strong focus on the body in contemporary art, sensual turn, sound art, and in-situ projects. She worked on large-scale international exhibitions such as the First Kyiv Biennale of contemporary art ARSENALE 2012, the International forum Art Kyiv, and the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Between 2013-2015 she curated the online-platform/collective of artists, curators and writers (wo)manorial. Her latest research is focused on love and intimacy in the context of emotional capitalism. Conceptualising, planning and implementing projects both on national and international levels. She possesses a deep expertise in Eastern European contemporary art. She lives and works between Kyiv and Berlin.
The event will be moderated by Maria Isserlis.
