Svitlana Biedarieva

Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian and curator with a focus on Ukrainian and Eastern European art. She holds her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. In 2019-2020, she curated a large-scale exhibition “At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019” in Mexico and Canada (together with Hanna Deikun). She has published her work in such academic and media outlets as October, Art Margins, Revue Critique d’Art, Financial Times, and The Art Newspaper, among many others.

Videos

Publications

“Art Communities at Risk: Ukraine”, October, Vol. 179 (Winter 2022) (MIT Press), 137-149.

Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, edited by Svitlana Biedarieva, texts by Ieva Astahovska, Svitlana Biedarieva, Kateryna Botanova, Olena Martynyuk, Lina Michelkeviče, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Margaret Tali, and Jessica Zychowicz, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2021.

At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019/ La línea del frente. El arte ucraniano, 2013–2019/ Na linii frontu. Ukrains’ke mystetstvo, 2013–2019, exh. cat., edited by Svitlana Biedarieva and Hanna Deikun, texts by Yevgenia Belorusets, Uilleam Blacker, Svitlana Biedarieva, Oleksandra Gaidai, Olga Mykhailiuk, Olesya Khromeychuk, César Martínez, Jean Meyer, Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridnyi, et. al, Mexico City: Editorial 17, 2020.

Website

https://svitlanabiedarieva.com/

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