Svitlana Biedarieva Explained

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.

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 positive 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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Svitlana Biedarieva . 2023-08-30 . Svitlana Biedarieva. Art Historian, Artist, Curator . en.
  2. Web site: Brown . Stuart . 2023-05-22 . Interview with Svitlana Biedarieva: "Art is vital for making sense of the war in Ukraine" . 2023-08-30 . EUROPP.
  3. Web site: Ukraine’s Decolonization and Its Cultural Impact in a Time of War A Conversation With George F. Kennan Fellow Svitlana Biedarieva Wilson Center . 2023-08-30 . www.wilsoncenter.org . en.
  4. Web site: 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 . 2023-08-30 . post . en-US.
  5. Web site: 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 . 2023-08-30 . The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
  6. Web site: Cardoso . Ricardo . 2019-11-19 . Compartiendo la patria con el enemigo . 2023-08-30 . La Tempestad . es.
  7. Web site: Bermejo . Edgardo . 2022-03-03 . Una artista ucraniana en México . 2023-08-30 . Crónica . es.
  8. Web site: Cruz . Azaneth . 2022-04-08 . Buscan apoyo para víctimas de la guerra en Ucrania . 2023-08-30 . El Heraldo de México . es.
  9. Web site: Zychowicz . Jessica . 2021-01-29 . A Dans Macabre in the Time of the Pandemic . 2023-08-30 . Imaginations . en-US.
  10. Web site: Shkandrij . Myroslav . 2020-05-20 . Front Line Art: an exhibition on Ukraine’s six years of conflict, 2013-2019 . 2023-08-30 . New Pathway Ukrainian News Новий Шлях Українські Вісті . en-US.
  11. Gajowy . Aleksandra . 2023 . Unstable Maps, Volatile Bodies . Art History . en . 46 . 1 . 214–219 . 10.1111/1467-8365.12706 . 0141-6790.
  12. Web site: 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 . 2023-08-30 . Harvard Ukrainian Studies . en.
  13. Art Communities at Risk: On Ukraine . 10.1162/octo_a_00452 . 2022 . Biedarieva . Svitlana . October . 179 . 137–149 . 247779878 . free .
  14. Web site: Biedarieva . Svitlana . 2 June 2022 . Decolonization and Disentanglement in Ukrainian Art .
  15. News: The Ukrainian artists making work as acts of resistance . Financial Times . 28 March 2022 . Biedarieva . Svitlana .
  16. Web site: Ukrainian Voices Editorial Board, Advisory Board, and Friends of the Series . 2023-08-30 . www.ibidem.eu.
  17. News: Avila . Sonia . 3 May 2017 . Cuerpos que figuran guerras . 6 . Excelsior . 30 August 2023.
  18. Web site: 2023-05-31 . The Morphology of War I . 2023-08-30 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . en.
  19. Web site: Rander . Tanel . 2023-05-30 . Goodbye, East! Goodbye, Narcissus! . 2023-08-30 . BLOK MAGAZINE . en.
  20. Web site: Salas . Jazuara . 2017-03-26 . Sveta Bedareva mantiene exposición "Morfología de la guerra" en Museo Taller Erasto Cortés . 2023-08-30 . Síntesis Nacional . es.
  21. Web site: 2017-06-03 . Виставка української мисткині про війну відкрилася в Пуеблі . 2023-08-30 . ART Ukraine.
  22. Web site: Puebla . Universidad de las Américas . 2017-03-16 . Cada sociedad tiene sus monstruos: Morfología de la Guerra . 2023-08-30 . Blog de la UDLAP . es.
  23. Web site: Украинка из Лондона выставляется в Мексике - Chernozem.info . 2023-08-30 . СHERNOZEM.INFO портал візуальної культури . uk.