Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta

Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta is Director General of the National Art and Culture Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal (Art Arsenal) in Kyiv. She is a curator of contemporary art and the author of numerous texts on art, culture and policy; she recently curated the exhibition “Heart of Earth,” which focused on environmental themes relevant to the current conflict.
She also served as First Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine and First Deputy to the Head of the National Committee for UNESCO. In addition, she has also served as a board member of the Ukrainian Institute and the East Europe Foundation, and as head of the Program Board and Social Capital program at the International Renaissance Foundation, among many other appointments.

Contributions

Ukrainian Museums in Wartime: Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Yuliya Vaganova in conversation with Jason Farago

This conversation, which took place as a collaboration between the International Program and Research Programs at MoMA, featured presentations by the directors of two important art museums in Kyiv on the crises faced by their institutions since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The National Art and Culture Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal (Art Arsenal) is…