music

Sasha Andrusyk is a co-founder and head curator of the Ukho Music Agency, a group that has presented over 700 contemporary classical and experimental works of music in Ukraine since 2012. In 2021 Sasha received the Shevchenko Prize for curating and producing the Architecture of Voice concert cycle.
She works with various forms of listening experience, from chamber concerts and site-specific performances to audiovisual installations and musical theatre. In her practice, she explores the connection between the urban environment, memory, and gesture. She is currently working on launching Ukho’s record label Kyiv Dispatch.

visual art

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.

founders and curators of the pavilion of culture

music

Sasha Andrusyk is a co-founder and head curator of the Ukho Music Agency, a group that has presented over 700 contemporary classical and experimental works of music in Ukraine since 2012. In 2021 Sasha received the Shevchenko Prize for curating and producing the Architecture of Voice concert cycle.
She works with various forms of listening experience, from chamber concerts and site-specific performances to audiovisual installations and musical theatre. In her practice, she explores the connection between the urban environment, memory, and gesture. She is currently working on launching Ukho’s record label Kyiv Dispatch.

visual art

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.

visual art

Lizaveta German, curator, contemporary art researcher, co-founder of The Naked Room gallery.
For 8 years she have been developing the independent research platform Open Archive. She curated the first Ukrainian biennial of contemporary art initiated and produced by state institutions.

visual art

Maria Lanko, curator, contemporary art researcher, co-founder of The Naked Room gallery.
For 8 years she have been developing the independent research platform Open Archive. She curated the first Ukrainian biennial of contemporary art initiated and produced by state institutions.

visual art

Victor Glushchenko, designer, artist, interim director of the Pavilion of Culture Charitable Foundation on a voluntary basis.

architecture

Iryna Miroshnykova, architect and partner of the architectural office ФОРМА.
The studio practices a rare approach for the Ukrainian professional environment of combining design with research and an ecological attitude to the place, the work process, and all the participants involved.

architecture

Oleksii Petrov, architect, founder of the architectural office ФОРМА.
The studio practices a rare approach for the Ukrainian professional environment of combining design with research and an ecological attitude to the place, the work process and all the participants involved.