Current trends in Humanities/Masters’ Academy 28.05.2025 ; 3 p.m.

14 05 2025

28 maja 2025 o godzinie 15:00 odbędzie się kolejne w roku akademickim 2024/25 spotkanie w ramach Current trends in Humanities/Masters’ Academy.

Gościć będziemy Doktor Katerynę Denysovą.

Dr Kateryna Denysova, University of Tübingen

Modernism in Ukraine: The Lagacy of Imperialism, Multiculturalism and Contested Heritage

How did it happen that the art of Ukraine became absent from the annals of art history, and the country’s culture turned into a blindspot? Analysing the 20th-century exhibition history, this talk explores how different iterations of the Russian state cultivated the idea of ‘great Russian culture’ internationally at the expense of other nations, long subjugated and overshadowed by multiple guises of Russian imperialism. We will also discuss the role of cultural diplomacy and how such projects as In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine can help reclaim names and events for Ukraine’s cultural heritage, reassess the existing art historical canon, expose and redress institutional biases, and engender long-term epistemic reparations. At the same time, the talk will address the need to embrace the multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual milieus within which the artists from Ukraine had historically operated.

BIO:

Dr Katia Denysova is an art historian and curator specialising in Ukraine’s modernist art. She is the co-curator of the major travelling exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine (winner of the 2023 Apollo Exhibition of the Year Award) and co-editor of the accompanying catalogue (Thames & Hudson, 2022). The show’s next iteration will be on view at the Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi from June 2025 until February 2026. Denysova is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Eberhard Karl Universität Tübingen in Germany, where she co-leads a research project on abstract art in EastCentral Europe supported by the Getty’s Connecting Art Histories initiative. She held the Ukrainian Research in Switzerland (URIS) fellowship at Universität Basel in the spring 2025 term and will be the Lesia Ukraїnka Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2026.