is an independent curator and writer. From 2016 to 2020, he collaborated with IZOLYATSIA Foundation and coordinated Donbas Studies research project. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK, and a member of the group Donbas Through Collaborative Frameworks, Ukraine/UK. He is a co-author of the book Limits of Collaboration: Art, Ethics, and Donbas (2022) together with Victoria Donovan and Daria Tsymbalyuk, and a сo-author of the publication Curatorial Handbook (2020) together with Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Kateryna Iakovlenko. He has curated various art residency programmes, including Landscape As a Monument (2020), Contemporary Art Rivne (2021), and When Was the Story Interrupted? (2022/2023), Ukrainian Ecologies (2024).
Artist Marharyta Polovinko’s creativity persisted in a tormented form through her experiences as a soldier on the Ukrainian frontline. The words of a recently called-up fellow creative and young family man provide a stark reminder that the Ukrainian military is buying Europeans time.