Olga Balashova (Kyiv, Ukraine) — art historian, PhD in Philosophy. Olga is Director, Co-Founder of MOCA NGO, Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art / UMCA, Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund / UEAF, and other main sub-entities. Co-curator of the Wartime Art Archive and other art projects by UMCA, Co-curator of the project The Post-War Memory Culture in Ukraine (PWMC) and other projects in the field of memory work, oversees several art educational projects. In 2017–2020 she worked at the National Art Museum of Ukraine as a Deputy Director for Development. Her field of research interests is the art of new media, the Western European art culture of the XX–XXI centuries as well as the informal Soviet art.