Lesia Kulchynska is a guest curator of ArtConnect's Artists to Watch ‘21

Lesia Kulchynska is a Kyiv-based curator and visual studies researcher affiliated with the Research Platform of the Pinchuk Art Center.

She developed and teaches the course “Violence of the Image” at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. She worked as a curator at the Visual Culture Research Center / VCRC (2011-2019) and Set Independent Art Space (2019-2020). Past curatorial projects developed by Lesia Kulchynska include Ukrainian Body (2012), Some Say You Can Find Happiness There (2015),

The School of the Lonesome – at The School of Kyiv (Kyiv Biennial 2015), The Raft CrimeA (2016), Somewhere Out There Somewhere Beside (Nida, 2019), Art= Capital ? Public Self-Reflection Program at Kyiv Art Fair (Kyiv, 2020), The Reason Of Disappearance (Kyiv 2021), Radically Different Society (New York, 2021). Lesia Kulchynska is also author of the talk show “Sincerely about art”, founder of the “Mobile school of visual education” and of the web project: https://www.srvc.website. Lesia Kulchynska is the author Meaning Production in Cinema: Genre Mechanisms (Kyiv, 2017), editor of The Right to the Truth: Conversations on Art and Feminism (Kyiv, 2019) and Joseph Beuys. Everyone is an artist (Kyiv, 2020).

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