CV

Education

  • Ph.D. program in Media Studies and Journalism, Lviv National University of Ivan Franko, (2012-2016), all besides dissertation

  • MA in Journalism and Media Studies, Donetsk National University (2011-2012)

  • BA in Journalism and Media Studies, Donetsk National University (2007-2011)

Certificate  on Feminist Research Methodologies and Digital Feminist Research at New University in Exile Consortium at The New School (2021), Certificate

Additional: Prof. George Grabowicz’s course “Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon” Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, 2021

Awards

2024 Women in Arts, Cultural Journalism, Criticism, and Research, organized by Ukrainian Institute and UN Women

2012 Drama UA, shortlisted (“Dreams“ play)

Fellowships and Residencies

  • Slovo Residency, organised by Kharkiv Museum of Literature, Kharkiv (August 2026)

  • Viktoria Amelina Fellowship, Institute for Documentation and Exchange INDEX, Lviv, Ukraine (2025)

  • Gdańsk Miasto Literatury Unesco Residency, Free Word program (July 2024)

  • Research Fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) London, United Kingdom (2022-2023)

  • Institute for a Human Science in Vienna, Ukraine in European Dialogue Programme (2022), Vienna, Austria (with a topic What Power Does Art Have during the War?)

  • Fulbright Research and Development Program, Scientific Shevchenko Society in the USA (2020-2021) with a topic “The Tyranny of Gaze: Visual Violence in Art and Documentaries about military conflicts”

  • Institute for a Human Science in Vienna, Ukraine in European Dialogue Programme (2017), Vienna, Austria (with a topic “The Role of Witnesses in Digital Media: The Case of the War in the Donbas”)

  • Carnegie research fellowship at the New York University, USA (2015) (with a topic “Tyranny of the image: how an image can construct history and social memory”). New York University, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.

  • Latvian Contemporary Centre of Arts International Summer School 'Contemporary Geographies' (2018)

Main Books and Publications

See more page with my books and a selected bibliography

Work experience

  • 2023-2026 – Editor-in-Chief of UPB: Suspilne Kultura in digital

  • 2019-2022 – Curator of the Public Program, PinchukArtCentre

  • 2015 - 2019 –Researcher at the Research Platform, PinchukArtCentre. The last project: curatorial assistant for Nikita. Kadan. Stone Hits Stone exhibition 

  • 2014-2015 – project coordinator at Donbas Studies research project, IZOLYATSIA foundation 

  • 2013-2014 – Deputy Web-Editor, The Day Newspaper

  • 2012-2013 – Own reporter in the Donetsk Oblast, the Day Newspaper

Curatorial and Editorial Projects

See portfolio of visual art exhibition

  • 2026 – You Didn’t Imagine It, You Will Remain Forever, curator, Dnipro CCC, Ukraine.

  • 2026 – This Heaven Knew Nothing About Me or A Few Life-Size Ideas for an Exhibition, or Between Earth and Earth, or This Exhibition Gave Me Nothing, or Instead of Bad Confession, or These Are Not Dreams, This Is Art in the Room, or Nail Print, curator of a solo-exhibition of Stanislav Turina, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin.

  • 2026 – Looking 6-7, curator of the group exhibition (with Borys Filonenko and Natalia Matsenko. "Goods from Europe" Gallery, Lviv

  • 2026 – This Cat Was Drawn During the War, curator of the international public program for the exhibition. Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

  • 2025 – When I am in Poland, everyone asks me about Ukraine…, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro city

  • 2025 – Immersion in blu(r)e, a personal exhibition of Dasha Chechushkova, TBA Gallery, Warszaw

  • 2024 – A few kilos of exhibitions, a personal exhibition of Stanislav Turina, the steistudio, Kyiv

  • 2024 – Silvashi Circle, a public program curator, Ukrainian House, Kyiv

  • 2023 – Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us, co-curated with Boris Filonenko and Natalia Matsenko, organized by Jam Factory, Lviv

  • 2022 –I dreamt of beasts, an exhibition, co-curated with Halyna Hleba. Organized by Artsvit Gallery at the Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland

  • 2022 – Everyone is afraid of the baker, but I am grateful, an apartment exhibition, ruined by Russian army building, Irpin city, Ukraine  

  • 2022 – Debate program, curator, Dnipro Contemporary Culture Center

  • 2019 –Residence Normalno, e-zine editor. (cooperation project of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and Goethe-Institute Ukraine)

  • 2019 – Female gaze: curating series of public talks with women artists, film directors, operators about an image of violence during the war (America House, Kyiv)

  • 2019 – Space of my own, exhibition in PinchukArtCenter. Contribution: researcher, and curator within the public program. 

  • 25 Book Forum, Focus program Curator

  • 2016 - Donbas project by Paul Chainey (Prague), research assistant

  • 2015 - Architecture Ukraine art and research project, project manager

  • TEDxDonetsk, TEDxWomen in Donetsk (2010-2013), co-organizer, public relations, SMM, Donetsk Social media camp in Donetsk (2012): co-organizer, communications, public relations.

Podcast host and sound

  • Zabula zapytaty, podcast series interview with artists, curators and writers (in Ukrainian and Russian)

  • Zavod, zavod. Audioartwork, based on interviews with women in Dnipro city (with Kay Khachatryan)

  • Podcast Uzcast in Donetsk (2011-2012), co-host

    I also runed a electronic music project under name kasia based on archival and environmental sound. You may check my SoundCloud.