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    Sense of Safety, expanded exhibition at ZKM, installation view featuring Permanent Vacation by Mark Požlep, 2024. Photo: Karolina Sobel © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

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    I was approaching the city I hadn’t known yet, 2021, Artsvit, Dnipro, Ukraine, Photo: Photo: Oleh Samoylenko. Courtesy of Artsvit.

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    Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912-2023, installation view of the historical prologue, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany. 2023. Photo: Oliver Killig.

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    Landscapes of an Ongoing Past, Salzlager, UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein, Essen. Installation view with Babushka in Space by Uli Golub and, in the background, Palace of Projects (1995–1998) by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. 2024. Photo: Henning Rogge. Courtesy UKR.

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    Pairs Skating: Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans, installation view, YermilovCentre, 2025, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Photo: Yevhen Nikiforov. Courtesy YermilovCentre and RIBBON International.

Tatiana Kochubinska (Ukraine) is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and lecturer whose practice focuses on artists exploring the human condition and states of transition through deeply personal approaches. Her recent work has been shaped through collective curatorial methodologies, leading to a sustained engagement with questions of interdependence, post-traumatic ingrowth, memory, and the social legacies of the post-Soviet 1990s. She is particularly interested in how historical experiences continue to shape contemporary forms of relating, as well as in developing exhibition-making as a medium through site-specific and research-driven projects that connect local experiences with broader social and geopolitical processes.

During her residency, Tatiana will develop her ongoing research project Guilty Landscapes (working title), which examines how landscapes bear traces of violence, memory, and historical responsibility in contexts marked by war and post-conflict experience. Drawing on field research, border experiences, and comparative encounters with sites and narratives from different geographies of conflict, she aims to build a layered understanding of landscape as both witness to and participant in historical processes.

Recent curatorial projects include Pairs Skating: Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans; Sense of Safety; Landscapes of an Ongoing Past; Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023; and I Was Approaching the City I Hadn’t Known Yet, all co-curated. Her publications include Sense of Safety: Art in a Time of War (DISTANZ, 2026), Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014 (Obieg Journal, 2020), and Parcommune. Place. Community. Phenomenon (PinchukArtCentre, 2019).

Tatiana holds an M.A. in Art History from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv and has completed the Curatorial Platform Programme at PinchukArtCentre as well as Images into Words: Writing about Art at the Salzburg Summer Academy. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is currently based nomadically.

With support from:

The British Council and Ukrainian Institute

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