Svitlana Biedarieva

Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian and curator with a focus on Eastern European and Latin American art. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. In 2019–20, she curated the exhibition At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 in Mexico and Canada. She is editor of Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021 (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Hanna Deikun) of At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 (Mexico City: Editorial 17, 2020). Biedarieva has published her texts on Ukrainian art in such academic and media outlets as October, ARTMargins Online, Critique d’art, Financial Times, and the Art Newspaper, among others.

Contributions

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

post presents: Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine

On the evening of October 12, 2022, post presents hosted presentations and conversations with artists, scholars, and curators about the artistic responses to the war in Ukraine, looking at the period between the Maidan Revolution, which was followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022. This conversation is a continuation of the presentations and conversations commenced that evening.

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Decolonization and Disentanglement in Ukrainian Art

In this text focused on how postcolonial and decolonial processes are reflected in contemporary Ukrainian culture, art historian Svitlana Biedarieva examines methods of decolonizing Ukrainian cultural discourse through the lens of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists—specifically those addressing complex aspects of identity conflicts actualized by Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.