Denysova, Katia, Dr. phil. | University of Tübingen

Dr. Katia Denysova

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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

Vita

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

Spring- summer 2025: Ukrainian Research in Switzerland (URIS) Fellow, University of Basel

2022–2026: 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); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (27 June 2025 – 1 February 2026)

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

Forschungsprojekte

2025 - 2027: Modernism's Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in East-Central Europe', 1910 - 1930s (a Getty Connecting Art Histories Initiative)

Publikationen

Bücher & Kataloge

‘Imperialism, Colonialism and Ukrainian Identity: The Case of Mykhailo Boichuk’s School of Monumental Art’, in Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe, ed. by Dorota Jagoda Michalska and Marta Zboralska, New York: Routledge (2026)
W oku cyklonu. Modernizm w Ukrainie, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki (2025); editor with Konstantin Akinsha
In the Eye of the Storm. Modernismen in der Ukraine, Vienna: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (2024); editor with Konstantin Akinsha, Maryna Drobotiuk, Olena Kashuba-Volvach and Stella Rollig
‘Modernism in Ukraine: Facts, Myths and Misconceptions’, in HIER UND JETZT im Museum Ludwig. Ukrainische Moderne 1900–1930 & Daria Koltsova, Cologne: Museum Ludwig/Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (2023): 62–70; with Konstantin Akinsha
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s, London: Thames & Hudson (2022); editor with Konstantin Akinsha and Olena Kashuba-Volvach
- Denysova, Katia, ‘From Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter’: 18–23
- Denysova, Katia, ‘The Émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné’: 104–109

Artikel & Wissenschaftstransfer

‘Nina Henke (1893-1954), A Trailblazing Artist’, re/visions 8 (February 2026)
‘Mykhailo Boichuk’, ‘Vadym Meller’ and ‘Viktor Palmov’, Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press (December 2024 – May 2025)
‘Art for Justice: What Ukraine’s Artistic Heritage Teaches Us About Russian Imperialism’, London Ukrainian Review 3 (November 2024)
‘In the Eye of the Storm’, in conversation with Klara Kemp-Welch and Maria Mileeva, Critique d’Art (June 2023): 113–128
‘Decolonisation, De-Communisation and De-Russification of the Ukrainian Cultural Space’, special feature editor and contributor, immediations 19 (December 2022): 84–111
‘From Folk Art to Abstraction: Ukrainian Embroidery as a Medium of Avant-Garde Experimentation’, Arts 11.10 (October 2022)

Vorträge

Konferenzen, wissenschaftliche Veranstaltungen

‘Cultural Exchange in Times of War: The Case Study of Alexandra Exter’s Art Studio in Kyiv, 1918–19’, mini-symposium Crisis, Conflict and Collapse: Social Disruption and Minority Communities, XI ICCEES World Congress, UCL, London (July 2025)
‘Modernism’s Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in “East-Central Europe”, 1910–1930’, panel co-convenor with Prof. Megan R. Luke, Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, University of York (April 2025)
‘Universal and Vernacular, Abstract and Decorative: Alexandra Exter’s Non-Figuration (late 1910s/early 1920s)’, panel Abstract Art and Colonial Systems, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York (February 2025)
‘In the Eye of the Storm: Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage vs. Russian Imperialism’, Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar series, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UCL, London (October 2024)
'Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters and Transnational Exchanges', conference co-organiser with Dr Maria Mileeva, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (October 2024)
‘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)

Vorträge & Medien

Art, Modernism and Ukraine’, guest lecture in the series Modernism Around the World, Royal Academy of Arts, London (February 2025)
‘In the Eye of the Storm’, curator talk, Royal Academy of Arts, London (August 2024)
Contributor to BBC Radio 4 Front Row (26 June 2024)
‘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)