TATIANA KOCHUBINSKA

Curator and writer. Was born in 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She graduated in art history and arts management at the National Art Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. She started her professional career at the Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, where she worked as a researcher and curator from 2006 to 2011. In 2010 she had an internship at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK, Aachen, Germany) with the support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations). In 2012–2014 she took part in the Curatorial Platform study programme organized by PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv. Since 2019 she has worked as an independent curator and writer. Her main expertise is Ukrainian contemporary art. In 2016–2019 she curated the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre aimed at creating a digital archive of Ukrainian contemporary art. Within the Research Platform she edited the book PARCOMMUNE. Place. Community. Phenomenon devoted to Kyiv squatting group, Parcommune. In her curatorial practice, Tatiana deals with questions of responsibilities, memory, and trauma, connecting the Soviet past with today’s society. This is reflected in a series of exhibitions such as Guilt (2016), Anonymous Society (2017), and Motherland on Fire (2017). She curated the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2015 and 2018 and co-curated Future Generation Art Prize in 2019 and the FGAP@Venice as a collateral event of the 58th Venice Biennale.