Essays and Critical Writings
Books and Chapters
Donbas as a Metaphor, ist publishing, 2026
Book translated into English by Academic Studied Press in 2026 (upcoming)
On the Eve of the War That Continues, or Those Who Have Seen Death, a postdramatic libretto. Published by ilostmylibrary; performed at the Theatre of Playwrights, Kyiv (January 2025)
“How the Human Gets Lost”, in Society of the Frontline A Guidebook of Kyiv Perennial, ngbk, 2025
"Here and Now, And Three Hundred Years After, and One Hundred Ahead" in We who have changed (edited by Daria Badior and Anastasia Platonova), ist publishing, 2024
Book translated into German by Spector Books in 2024: Wir, die wir uns verändert haben
Ukrainische Kulturschaffende erleben den Krieg"Vorsicht, gefährliche Bäume" in Aus dem Nebel des Krieges: Die Gegenwart der Ukraine(Katharina Raabe und Kateryna Mishchenko, eds. ). Edition Suhrkamp: Sonderdruck. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2023, pp 125-167
“Potato”, in “A Home We’ve Built“ (Lusya Zoria Ed.), published by America House Kyiv
"The Loss of Home: Memory and Materiality in Ukrainian Contemporary Art during the Russian War in Ukraine" in Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine, Published by transcript Verlag (Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda eds.)
“Materiality, Maternity, and Ignorance: How Women Artists Faced Social And Economic Crises in 1990s Kyiv” in “Freedom Taking Place. War, Women, and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus”. Edited with an Introduction by Jessica Zychowicz, Vernon Press, 2023
“The body and Burlesque. Was There a Place for Queerness in Kharkiv Photography?” (co-written with Halyna Hleba) in “Queer Exhibition Histories” (Edited by Bas Hendrikx), Valiz, 2023.
Read also this article in Ukrainian: “Місце травестії: чи був квір у харківській фотографії?”.
"Eyewitness the Russian War in Ukraine: The Matter of Loss and Arts" in Special Feature: Memory under Fire: Data Practices During Russia's War in Ukraine, Sociologica, V.16 N.2, 227–238. Ukrainian version published in: Україна в огні. Ukraine Ablaze, Kyiv: Mystetslyi Arsenal, pp.2023. 212-243
Kateryna Iakovlenko, Tatiana Kochubinska. "Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014," special issue of Obieg magazine, 2020
Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art . Kyiv: PinchukArtCentre, Publishing Pro, 224 pages. Published in Ukrainian translated into English and Polish
"The establishment and development of the Paris Commune squat in Kyiv" in PARCOMMUNE. Place. Community. Phenomenon, PinchukArtCentre. Published in Ukrainian and translated into English.
Catalogs and Artists Books
Essays on Alla Horska, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Karina Synytsia, Tetiana Yablonska, Marharyta Polovinko and Kinder Album in “The Women Question 1550-2025” (Ed. Alison M.Gingeras), published by Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2026)
“For Sana” / “До Сани” / “Do Sany” in “The Rapture. Вознесіння” (Ed. Adam Budak), published by MOCAK Krakow, 2026
“Літо 2024 року (Ярославу Футимському)” [Summer of 2024 (to Yaroslav Futymskyi)] in “Past Context”, ilostmylibrary, 2025
"Head to the wind — Nikita Kadan's artistic images in the struggle for remembrance" in NIKITA KADAN. STONE HITS STONE (Edited by Kateryna Iakovlenko), published by PinchukArtCentre Research Platform, 2021 in Ukrainian and English
“After the ruins / Після руїни / После руины” in “Vertigo time”, publication alongside an exhibition of “Vertigo Time” curated by renowned Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov and featuring Alina Kleytman, Sasha Kurmaz, Vlada Ralko, Mykola Ridnyi, Dora Ostrovsky Art Hub in Frankfurt, Germany, 2020
Revealing the Invisible in “Twarzą do ściany / Facing the wall / Обличчям до стіни”. [Mykola Ridnyi catalog]. Galeria Labirynt, 2018. PP. 56-120. Published in Ukrainian, Polish and English.
Essays
“Which Images Remain Invisible During Wartime?”, Institute of Network Cultures, June 22, 2026
“Notes on Curating During Blackouts, Power and Some Other Questions on Arts”, ArtsCabinet, July 01, 2026
“Where the Moonlit Roads Lead”, Most, Apr 9, 2026
"What Obstructs Art Becomes It: On Art And Its Meaning During the russian War in Ukraine," Most,February 4, 2026.
This essay also published in Ukrainian (“Те, що заважає робити мистецтво, стане ним: яким є мистецтво під час війни (одна з можливих версій”, Суспільне Культура, 3 листопада 2025 )
And translated published in Italian in a “Arte e guerra. Pratiche artistiche nell’epoca del conflitto permanente-Art and war. Artistic practices in the age of permanent conflict. Ediz. bilingue'‘ / “Art and War. Artistic Practices in the Age of Permanent Conflict”, edited by Carmen Lorenzetti and Dušan Josip Smodej (2026)
“Жодні графіки не діють: Про мистецтво Каті Бучацької” [“No Graphics Work: On the Art of Katya Buchatska”], ArtsLooker, 04.02.2026
“Запитати, щоб повернутися”/ “Powrót po odpowiedź”. Essay on Stanislav Turina, Dwutygodnik, Numer wydania 429, styczeń 2026
“Bakhmut, November 17, 2022. A photograph by Eddy van Wessel”, Re/visions, Issue 5. Future, October 2025. Read also interview with Eddy van Wassel pulbished by Suspilne Kultura
“Яке українське тіло сьогодні?” [What is the Ukrainian body like today?], Суспільне Культура, 19 серпня 2025
"On Elena Subach," e-flux Criticism, July 18, 2025
“7 notes from the diary of Kateryna Iakovlenko”, in index blog, July 15, 2025
"Why Do Images Fade Away?", e-flux Notes, May 14, 2025
“O ciele, ruchu i sztuce, czyli jeden z epizodów współczesnej sztuki ukraińskiej w czasie wojny” / “Про тіло, рух і мистецтво, або ж один із епізодів сучасного українського мистецтва в часі війни”, Szum, NR 10/2025, March 07, 2025
"On Curating the Exhibition During The War," e-flux Notes, February 21, 2025
“A Voice from Underground,” LUR: London Ukrainian Review, 4 March 2024, Issue 1 (March 2024)
"On Katya Libkind," e-flux Criticism, November 27, 2024
“Kateryna Iakovlenko, Oksana Briukhovetska, and Alya Segal, curators of the "Women Artists in War" at Secondary Archive Ukraine, on how the art of Ukrainian women artists has changed since February, 24, 2022”, Secondary Archive, 2025.
Read also conversation in Ukrainian: “Як повномасштабна війна позначилася на сучасному мистецтві: українські кураторки про 15 художниць у Secondary Archive” (Суспільне Культура, 19 березня 2024)
Wolałabym, żeby to był sen / Я би хотіла, щоб це виявилося сном, Gdansk Miasto Literatury, 2024
"Throwing a Shadow: The Work of Art of Times of the Production of War," e-flux Notes, August 7, 2024
"Flawours of Freedom: Rethinking the late 1980s and early 1990s," e-flux Architecture, September 6, 2023
“Exactly That Body: Images Against Oppression”, e-flux Journal, Issue #133,February 2023.
This article translated in Latvian: “Tieši tas kermenis: attēli pret apspiešanu” in Riga Photography Biennal, Next 2023, pp.8-24;
and French": “Exactement ce corps : les images contre l’oppression [suite]” in La revue internationale des livres et des photographies - numéro 3 - automne 2025 and “Exactement ce corps : les images contre l’oppression” in Sélection de textes parus dans la revue des éditions en 2025, Couverture sur papier jaune thermocollée. Impression collée sur la couverture (dessin de Tess Meyer), Mai 2026
“Heart of an Earth”, ArtForum, January 2023
"Black, white, and colourless," The Ecologist, September 22, 2022
"OPEN GROUP: 'Repeat after me' at Galeria Labirynt," BLOK Magazine,December 12, 2023
“The Privacy of War”, Institute of Network Cultures, July 11, 2022
“Freedom Is an Identity”, IWMPost 129
"Landscape, Decolonial, and Ukrainian Resistance," BLOK Magazine, March 28, 2022
"Eat me, drink me — this is a war," BLOK Magazine, February 24, 2022
"Highlight Ukrainian Artist-Women Practices: How to Make the Story Visible?", Secondary Archive project, 2021
“Conceiving Space. Is a Ukrainian Version of Cosmism Possible?” in Cosmic Bulletin, 2021.
This article also has a earlier edition: “Помыслить космос: возможна ли украинская версия космизма?”. YourArt, 2 Квітня 2020.
“Кола пам’яті” у часописі “Критика, рік XXI, число 9–10 (239–240) (c. 35–37)
“Місце емансипації, сексуальності та «дотику фемінізму» в українському мистецтві рухомого зображення 1990-х” [The Place of Emancipation, Sexuality, and a “Touch of Feminism” in Ukrainian Moving Image Art of the 1990s], YourArt, 26 Листопада 2020
“Харків’янка: образ жінки у харківських митців та мисткинь” [Kharkiv Woman: The Image of Women in Kharkiv Artists]. YourArt, 12 Листопада 2019
Selected Interviews
“"Людина, якщо їй пощастить, здатна винести на собі вагу однієї війни", — ліванський митець Валід Садек” ["A person, if they are lucky, can bear the weight of one war," — Lebanese artist Walid Sadek], Суспільне Культура,
4 червня 2026"Саме українці сьогодні платять ціну за той мир, який досі існує в Європі" — історик Карл Шльоґель ["It is Ukrainians who are paying the price today for the peace that still exists in Europe" — historian Karl Schlögel], Суспільне Культура,
17 жовтня 2025“Rozpoznawanie dźwięków broni. Rozmowa z artystami z Open Group”, Mint Magazine, 31.07.2025. Full version also publsihed in Ukrainian by Suspilne Kultura: "Мати час — це також привілей". Інтерв'ю із учасниками "Відкритої групи"
"Images at War: Interview with Ukrainian Photographer Kostiantyn Polishchuk," e-flux Notes, December 9, 2022
Ганс Ульрих Ґумбрехт: «Повернення до колишньої реальності вже неможливе» [Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: "A return to the previous reality is no longer possible"]. LB.UA,11 січня 2021
Serhiy Zhadan: “Donbas is more about revival than ruins”, OpenDemocracy, October 27, 2020
Alevtina Kakhidze: the artist who “made Donbas human”, OpenDemocracy, July 29, 2019
Director Sergei Loznitsa on the conflict in eastern Ukraine: “This is disintegration”, OpenDemocracy, November 19, 2018
Read a selection of interviews with Ukrainian artists:Oleksandr Glyadyelov,Mamut Churlu, Rita Ostrovska, Anton Varga, Nazar Bilyk, Oleksii Sai, Olga Stein, Yuliia Kochetova, Anna Zvyagintseva and Katya Buchatska among others.
Read a selection of interviews with Ukrainian curators:Andrii Boyarov, Daria Shevtsova and Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Lizaveta German and Mariia Lanko, Tatiana Kochubinska and Tetiana Zhmurko, Halyna Hleba, Kseniia Malykh, Kateryna Radchenko, Evheniia Moliiar, Sergei Kantsedal, Natasha Chychasova among others.
Listen also interviews with Ukrainian and Belarusian artists and cultural activists via podcast Zabula zapytaty available on ApplePodcasts and Soundcloud.
Selected Journalism
"'At Night I Dream of Mariupol': Nine Accounts of Surviving a Russian Siege" (co-produced with Olena Ivantsiv and Tetiana Bezruk), The New York Times, April 6, 2022
"These people survived Mariupol. Here are their stories," OpenDemocracy, April 8, 2022
"'I had no fear': The volunteers saving people and pets from Irpin," OpenDemocracy, April 13, 2022
“Art between manliness and activism. The role of Ukrainian women artists during political transformations”. MIEJSCE, 7/2021
"War and digital memory: How digital media shape history," Eurozine, January 18, 2018
Selected Public Talks and Events
How Feelings Become Battlefields: Ukrainian Art and Emotional Infrastructures of War, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2026
ArtsLink Assembly, Lviv, Ukraine, 2025
Displacement and Refuge in Times of War. Kateryna Iakovlenko, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Jan Tomasz Gross. Kyiv Perennial 2024. Watch on YouTube.
Word Press Photo Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023
14 Manifesta Conference, Pristina, Kosovo, 2022
“Ukrainian Contemporary Art After 2014” talk, HURI Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, 2021. Watch on YouTube