Yuliya Vaganova is Acting Director of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, which she has managed throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conserving and evacuating the collection and developing programs that make use of the now-empty museum building. She was previously Deputy Director for Exhibition and Museum Projects at the National Art and Culture Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal; Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Partnerships and International Relations at the the National Art Museum of Ukraine; and Director of the Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv.
She has lectured at the National Ukrainian Art Academy and Kyiv Academy of Media Art and has served as Vice-President of ICOM Ukraine since January 2023.
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…
