Tatiana Kochubinska

Tatiana Kochubinska (UA) is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer with main expertise in Ukrainian contemporary art. She has curated the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre aimed at creating the digital archive of Ukrainian contemporary art. In her exhibitions she is often interested in questions of responsibility, Soviet history and its relation to today’s society, flashbacking personal memories of the cross-border 1990s (Guilt, Anonymous Society). Since 2019, Tatiana has collaborated with various cultural institutions, designed courses about contemporary art together with the Cultural Project, co-developed curatorial residencies together with Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro, UA) that resulted in collectively curated exhibitions: Is ritual equal to routine (2020) and I was approaching the city I had not known yet (2021). In 2020 she co-edited a special issue “Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014” upon the invitation of the Obieg magazine. In 2022 she was a fellow at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE. In 2023 she co-curated an exhibition “Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories” at the Albertinum Museum in Dresden (DE) that has grown into a broader project consisting of traveling exhibitions, lectures, publications, and a residency programme. In 2024, she worked on the Maybe we can have fun together by Ivan Svitlychnyi in the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, PL and Landscapes of an Ongoing Past at the Urbane Künste Ruhr in Essen, DE. Being a part of the curatorial team of the antiwarcoalition.art since April 2022, today Tatiana is mostly busy with the co-curation and preparation of the exhibition Sense of Safety in the YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, UA.