Ukrainian Artistic Modernism. Between the East and the West | Kultura 2026

This seminar examines the reception and interpretation of cubism and futurism across the territories of Ukraine during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the centres of Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa, we will trace the origins of radical artistic experimentation, situating avant-garde developments in Ukraine between the Italian, French, Polish, and Russian formulations of cubism and futurism while foregrounding the contributions of artists from Ukraine to these international movements.

Lecturer: Dr Katia Denysova, University of Tübingen, Germany

Katia Denysova is an art historian and curator. In 2022–26, she co-curated the travelling exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine and co-edited the accompanying catalogue (Thames & Hudson, 2022). Katia is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She held the Ukrainian Research in Switzerland (URIS) fellowship at the University of Basel in 2025 and the Lesia Ukraїnka Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2026.

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