Olena Yehorushkina is a Ukrainian art critic, art expert of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and curator of international project "Ukrainian Art of Wartime". In 2023 Olena got the scholarship and diploma of Ministry of Culture in Poland, within the program "Gaude Polonia" organised by National Centre for Culture Poland.
During the residency, Olena will focus on developing her project titled UKRAINE wARTime. It has begun with the process of the creation of artworks in Turkey which were then exhibited in an art centre near to Istanbul. This presentation also included Olena’s research on the Turkish foot on both camps in the Russian war in Ukraine. In the summer 2023 UKRAINE wARTime exhibition took place for the second time in Warsaw. This part of research was dedicated to the Polish support of peace in Ukraine, based on Polish historical experience of World War II. At the moment these two approaches of Turkey and Poland are being comparatively analysed within the curatorial research.
Olena Yehorushkina’s project travels and expands. For now it includes more than 50 art works of 14 Ukrainian artists. The exhibition presents both traditional genres (painting, graphics, sculpture and tapestry) and contemporary media, such as collage, installation, and video art.
Artists in the project: Yevheniia Lypovetska, Anastasia Kryvenko, Anna Kuznetsova, Svitlana Mikhno, Tanbelia, Eva Holts, Anton Logov, Delnara, Nastya Loyko, Oleksandra Markytan, Olga Drozd, Anna Myronova, Olena Kulish.
"UKRAINE wARTime first of all presents personal testimonies of artists. Thanks to a wide range of methods, we can show the war objectively and voluminously. It is thanks to approach that justice can be established as quickly as possible," says Olena Yehorushkina. The curator's aim is to develop exhibition project to museum format, with both virtual and physical platforms to sustain further representation in Ukraine and throughout the world.