Kateryna Iakovlenko

Kateryna Iakovlenko is a Culture Editor-in-Chief at Ukraine’s public broadcaster, a contemporary art researcher, curator, and writer. Her publications include the book Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art (2019) and a special issue of Obieg Magazine on “Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014”. She has also published in e-flux and Artforum. The exhibitions she has curated include I dreamed of beasts (Labirynt Gallery, 2022-2023, with Halyna Hleba), Everyone is afraid of the baker, and I thank you (apartment exhibition, Irpin, 2022), and Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us (Jam Factory, Lviv, with Natalia Matsenko and Borys Filonenko). She is co-curator of the Secondary Archive project (2022) and Secondary Archive project: Woman Artists at War (2024).