Revisiting Histories: Insight into Ukrainian art. Curation and Research.

Lecture by Tatiana Kochubinska

“Through a case study of the exhibition “Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian art 1912-2023” (which I co-curate with Maria Isserlis) currently taking place at the Albertinum, Dresden, Germany, I would like to focus on the possibilities of research and peculiarities of national representation in the situation of the globalized world and wishful post-national condition. Ukraine as a country has been shaped in between different states, ethnical, cultural and political influences. There is no possibility of establishing the only one paradigm of artistic developments due to a huge diversity of the political as well as artistic climate in Ukraine from the North to the South and from the East to the West. During the lecture based on the recently co-curated exhibition, I would like to make an overview of Ukrainian art throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in its implicit continuity against the background of seeming disruptions.”

*

Tatiana Kochubinska (born 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine, currently based in Dresden) is an independent curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer, whose work focuses on Ukrainian contemporary art. She has worked as a curator on the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre and on the center’s exhibition and publication programs. As a curator, Tatiana is particularly interested in questions of responsibility, Soviet history and its relationship to today’s society. In recent years, Tatiana has collaborated with various cultural institutions, designed courses on contemporary art, co-developed curatorial residencies together with Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine), and co-edited a special issue about Ukrainian art and society after 2014 at the invitation of Obieg Magazine.
Tatiana Kochubinska is on residency at Structura Gallery as part of the Art Prospect Network, initiated by CEC ArtsLink in 2017.