Avant-garde in Ukraine and Decoloniality
Date and time:
Tuesday 18 October, 2022
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
In the first decades of the 20th century, Ukrainian culture was shaped by artistic visionaries such as Kazimir Malevich, Oleksandra Exter, Davyd Burliuk, Dzyga Vertov, Vasyl Yermylov and others. Some of them remain little-known outside Ukraine, and the names that are familiar around the world are mostly identified in the context of the so-called Russian avant-garde. Join us to find out how Ukraine redefines the map of avant-garde.
Tetyana Filevska is a specialist on the avant-garde movement in Ukraine, in particular, Kazimir Malevich and his connection to the country. The discussion will be moderated by Ursula Woolley, Chair of the Ukrainian Institute London.
Speaker
Tetyana Filevska
Tetyana Filevska is a specialist in the field of contemporary art, a cultural activist and the founder and curator of several art projects. Her published books include Kazimir Malevich: Kyiv Period 1928-1930 and Dmitro Gorbachov. Sluchayi. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is a graduate of the FLEX exchange programme, funded by the US government. Tetyana has previously worked at the EIDOS Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation, Izolyatsia: Platform for Cultural Initiatives and in the Mystetskyi arsenal team on the educational and public programme of the first Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARSENALE 2012. Tetyana is also the Creative Director of the Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv (part of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Moderator
Ursula Woolley
Ursula Woolley is the Chairwoman of the Ukrainian Institute London. She was Project Manager (Kyiv) and then Assistant Director of the British Council in Ukraine (1991-95), where she organised the opening of the first British Council offices in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa. She was First Secretary (British Council) at the British Embassy in Moscow (1996-2000); Deputy Policy Director for East and South-East Europe at the British Council (2004-2006); Deputy Leader of Islington Council (Liberal Democrat) (2008-2010); Director of Pushkin House (2012-2016); and a member of the Advisory Board at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (UCL SSEES) (2013-19). She is currently a PhD candidate at UCL SSEES, conducting research into recent local responses in Ukraine to Russian government history propaganda.
