Kunsthistorisches Institut

Dr. Katia Denysova

Academic Assistant

Room 08 (Entrance on the right side of the building)
+49 (0)7071 29-75304
kateryna.denysovaspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Office hours: by arrangement via e-mail

Curriculum vitae

Since Jan 2024: Predoctoral/postdoctoral fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Tübingen

2022–2024: Co-curator, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (30 November 2022 – 2 May 2023, winner of the Apollo Exhibition of the Year 2023 Award); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (3 June 2023 – 24 September 2023); Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (20 October 2023 – 28 January 2024); The Belvedere, Vienna (23 February – 2 June 2024); The Royal Academy of Arts, London (29 June – 13 October 2024)

2020–2024: PhD, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

2012–2022: Associate Director, Senior Client Strategy Manager, Christie’s, London

2010–2011: MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating, University of Essex


Forschung

Forschungsschwerpunkte

> Modern art in Ukraine

> Central and Eastern European art

> Politics of identity and nationalism

> Regionalism and centre/periphery relations

> Postcolonial and decolonial studies


Publikationen

Publications
  • In the Eye of the Storm. Modernismen in der Ukraine, co-editor, Vienna: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (February 2024)
  • 'Modernism in Ukraine: Facts, Myths and Misconceptions’, essay co-authored with Konstantin Akinsha, in HIER UND JETZT im Museum Ludwig. Ukrainische Moderne 1900-1930 & Daria Koltsova, Cologne: Museum Ludwig (August 2023)
  • ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, feature contributor alongside Dr Klara Kemp-Welch and Dr Maria Mileeva, Critique d’Art (June 2023)
  • ‘Decolonisation, De-Communisation and De-Russification of the Ukrainian Cultural Space’, special feature editor and contributor, immediations (December 2022)
  • In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, co-editor, London: Thames & Hudson (November 2022),
  • ‘From Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter’, in: In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, ed. by Konstantin Akinsha, Katia Denysova, Olena Kashuba-Volvach, London: Thames & Hudson 2022, pp. 18–23
  • ‘The Émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné’, in: In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, ed. by Konstantin Akinsha, Katia Denysova, Olena Kashuba-Volvach, London: Thames & Hudson 2022, pp. 104–09
  • ‘From Folk Art to Abstraction: Ukrainian Embroidery as a Medium of Avant-Garde Experimentation’, Arts 11: 10 (October 2022)
  • ‘Omnipresence Rediscovered: The Many Facets of Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine’, review of Stephen Velychenko, Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine: Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Cartoons, 1917–1922, H-SHERA, H-Net Reviews (August 2021)

Vorträge

Conferences & Seminars
  • ‘From Folk to Abstract: Ukrainian Embroidery as a Medium for Modernist Experimentation’, symposium Storms and Networks: Modernisms in an Extended Territorial Context, Belvedere 21, Vienna (May 2024)
  • ‘The “Russian” Avant-Garde in a Time of War’, invited panel participant, CAA Annual Conference, Chicago (February 2024)
  • ‘Fragmented Identities: Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Ukraine’s Early Twentieth-Century Art’, guest lecture at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (December 2023)
  • ‘Folk Modernism: Ukrainian Embroideries as a Medium for Abstract Art’, Year Three PhD Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (May 2023)
  • ‘Ornamental Constructivism: Elements of Ukrainian Folk Art in the Avant-Garde Experiments of Vasyl Yermilov’, panel Printing and Printmaking in Ukraine: Art Traditions and National Identities, BASEES, Glasgow (March 2023)
  • ‘Between Ukrainian Nationalism and Soviet Propaganda: Ukrainian Monumental Art of the Early Twentieth Century’, seminar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York (March 2023)
  • ‘Mykhailo Boichuk’s School of Monumental Art in Ukraine in the 1920s’, guest lecturer for MA in Beyond Utopia: Soviet and Post-Soviet Art and BA (Year 3) in Global Constructivism: Art Politics and the Everyday, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (December 2022)
  • ‘From Neo-Byzantinism to Socialist Realism: Ukrainian Monumental Art of the Early Twentieth Century’, symposium The Collective Body Dismembered, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (May 2022)
Talks & Media
  • ‘The Many Faces of Ukraine’s Artistic Modernism’, curator-led exhibition tour of In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine, Lower Belvedere, Vienna (May 2024)
  • ‘Meet the Curator’, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s exhibition presentation, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (November 2023)
  • ‘Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s’, exhibition presentation and book launch, in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute London, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies and the Courtauld Institute of Art (April 2023)
  • ‘Modernism in Ukraine’, book launch and roundtable conversation with Dr Klara Kemp-Welch and Dr Maria Mileeva, the Courtauld Institute of Art (February 2023)
  • Contributor to The Week in Art podcast episode Feast and Famine: Miami Millions and UK Arts Cuts. Plus, Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid (December 2022)
  • Contributor to Dash Arts podcast episode The Identity Series: Czesław Miłosz and the Borderlands (August 2021)