Svitlana Biedarieva
Svitlana Biedarieva is a Ukrainian art historian, artist, and curator, working in the topics of Ukrainian wartime art after 2014, decoloniality in Ukrainian culture, and Ukrainian anti-colonial resistance through art. She also works within a comparative perspective on East European and Latin American modern and contemporary art history.
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Education
Biedarieva received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.[1]
Career
Since the onset of the war in 2014, Biedarieva closely works with the topics of resistance to violence, anti-objectification, and decolonial disentanglement in wartime Ukraine, as well as the war documentation by Ukrainian artists.[2][3][4][5] As a curator, she aims at establishing a productive collaboration between Ukraine and the Global South, with a particular attention to Latin America. Her exhibition At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019, co-curated with Hanna Deikun, aimed at examining a comparative perspective and included a show at the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City, in collaboration with the National Cinematheque of Mexico and the Museum of Memory and Tolerance.[6][7][8] This has become the first large-scale cultural project focused on contemporary Ukraine in Latin America. The exhibition further travelled to Canada where it received postiive reviews.[9][10]
She is the editor of the book Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021, published by ibidem Press in 2021,[11] and co-editor of At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019, published by Editorial 17 in 2020.[12] Biedarieva has published her texts in such academic journals and media outlets as October,[13] Art Margins, Space and Culture, post.MoMA,[14] Financial Times,[15] The Burlington Contemporary, and The Art Newspaper, among others. Biedarieva is a member of editorial board of the "Ukrainian Voices" series published by the German publishing house ibidem Press.[16]
Her art focuses on resistance to Russia's war against Ukraine. Biedarieva's works have been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Estonia, the United States, Ukraine, Cuba, Finland, and Germany. Her graphic art project The Morphology of War (2017-2023) explores dehumanizing qualities of Russia's war against Ukraine.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
References
- "Svitlana Biedarieva". Svitlana Biedarieva. Art Historian, Artist, Curator. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Brown, Stuart (2023-05-22). "Interview with Svitlana Biedarieva: "Art is vital for making sense of the war in Ukraine"". EUROPP. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- "Ukraine's Decolonization and Its Cultural Impact in a Time of War | A Conversation With George F. Kennan Fellow Svitlana Biedarieva | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Lāce, Inga; Kadan, Nikita; Sułek, Ewa; Biedarieva, Svitlana; Khomenko, Lesia (2023-04-26). "post presents: Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine". post. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Luke, Ben (2022-04-11). "'Our artists are responding to the war—they have been since 2014': the rise of documentaries in recent Ukrainian art". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Cardoso, Ricardo (2019-11-19). "Compartiendo la patria con el enemigo". La Tempestad (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Bermejo, Edgardo (2022-03-03). "Una artista ucraniana en México". Crónica (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Cruz, Azaneth (2022-04-08). "Buscan apoyo para víctimas de la guerra en Ucrania". El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Zychowicz, Jessica (2021-01-29). "A Dans Macabre in the Time of the Pandemic". Imaginations. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Shkandrij, Myroslav (2020-05-20). "Front Line Art: an exhibition on Ukraine's six years of conflict, 2013-2019". New Pathway Ukrainian News | Новий Шлях Українські Вісті. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Gajowy, Aleksandra (2023). "Unstable Maps, Volatile Bodies". Art History. 46 (1): 214–219. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12706. ISSN 0141-6790.
- Iakovlenko, Kateryna. "At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019/ La línea del frente: El arte ucraniano, 2013–2019/ Нa лінії фронту: Українське мистецтво, 2013–2019". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Biedarieva, Svitlana (2022). "Art Communities at Risk: On Ukraine". October (179): 137–149. doi:10.1162/octo_a_00452. S2CID 247779878.
- Biedarieva, Svitlana (2 June 2022). "Decolonization and Disentanglement in Ukrainian Art".
- Biedarieva, Svitlana (28 March 2022). "The Ukrainian artists making work as acts of resistance". Financial Times.
- "Ukrainian Voices Editorial Board, Advisory Board, and Friends of the Series". www.ibidem.eu. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Avila, Sonia (3 May 2017). "Cuerpos que figuran guerras" (PDF). Excelsior. p. 6. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- "The Morphology of War I". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Rander, Tanel (2023-05-30). "Goodbye, East! Goodbye, Narcissus!". BLOK MAGAZINE. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Salas, Jazuara (2017-03-26). "Sveta Bedareva mantiene exposición "Morfología de la guerra" en Museo Taller Erasto Cortés". Síntesis Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- "Виставка української мисткині про війну відкрилася в Пуеблі". ART Ukraine. 2017-06-03. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- Puebla, Universidad de las Américas (2017-03-16). "Cada sociedad tiene sus monstruos: Morfología de la Guerra". Blog de la UDLAP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- "Украинка из Лондона выставляется в Мексике - Chernozem.info". СHERNOZEM.INFO портал візуальної культури (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-08-30.
External links
- Svitlana Biedarieva; Art historian, artist, curator, personal website