Kateryna Radchenko
Artist, curator, photography researcher.
Major in Philosophy and Journalism at Odesa National University. Kateryna considers art as an alternative media to share stories and visualise problems. Interested in covering social issues through visual images. As an artist, she’s working with collages, photo installations, and public space interventions.
Since 2015 – founder and director of the International Festival Odesa Photo Days.
Kateryna is the author of articles published in several international magazines and on online platforms, such as Fotograf, Magenta, EIKON, FOAM Magazine and British Journal of Photography. She curated exhibitions in Ukraine, South Korea, Sweden, Georgia, France, Austria, Poland, Latvia and the UK.
Studied photography during the fellowship and residence programs at Villa Arson (Nice, France), Gaude Polonia (Warsaw, Poland), and the Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, USA). Studied curatorship through participation in Curator’s Platform at PinchukArtCenter (Kyiv, Ukraine).
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Selected Artist Shows:
2021 Group show Langue Paternelle, La maison de lours/ Paris, France
2019 Solo show Post Box No. 28, JUMP Gallery /Poltava, Ukraine
2018 International Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art /Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2018 Group show, Mala Gallery Arsenal /Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Solo show Oblivion, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art /Odesa, Ukraine
2017 Group show Silent City, Y Gallery /Minsk, Belarus
2015 Solo show Open Access, Museum of the History of Religion /Lviv, Ukraine
2015 Group show, Photo Festival ESTREET /Lublin, Poland
2014 Group Show Light Project, Umea – culture capital 2014 /Umea, Sweden
2014 Group Show Reliability Theory, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts/ Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Photo project You Are War, Festival ARTISTERIUM /Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 Photo project Family Album /published in ARHIVO
2014 Project Changes, Festival Batumi Backyard Stories / Batumi, Georgia
2012 Group show R’Evolution Art /Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 Multimedia project Sofa, Festival Park.In / Lviv, Ukraine
2010 Photo project Lost, Festival Non Stop Media /Kharkov, Ukraine
Selected Curatorial Shows:
2021 Tectonic Shift, international exhibition, Zamok Monstrov/ Odesa, Ukraine
2020 The Encyclopedia of Architecture of Ukraine, co-curator/ Online Project
2019 Body as Propaganda, Latvian Museum of Photography / Riga, Latvia
2019 Overcoming Gravity. Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, Art Arsenal /Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Blind Spot, Ukrainian–South Korean project, Western and Eastern Arts Museum / Odesa, Ukraine
2019 Stand Point, Odesa Photo Days Festival / Odesa, Ukraine
2018 The Sun of the Mountains. Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, Invogue Art Gallery/ Odesa, Ukraine
2017 Lost Territories. Phantom. (LTA6), SPUTNIK Photos collective, Small Gallery at Art Arsenal/ Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Naive Archive, Photo Kyiv Fair /Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Elements of the Whole, Odesa//Batumi Photo Days Festival /Batumi, Georgia
2016 Elementary Manipulation, Ukrainian Week in Gdansk /Gdansk, Poland
2016 Deformation, Suwon Photo Festival /Suwon, South Korea
2015 Multimedia project Collective Unconscious, Gogol Fest /Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Trust Zone, Museum of Archaeology /Batumi, Georgia
2015 Odesa. Photo Days, Museum of Contemporary Art / Odesa, Ukraine
2012 Nothing in Common, Gallery Flat 57/ Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Just So Stories, House of Europe /Tbilisi, Georgia
Producing Events:
2021 Project Re-Framing Body – 2/ Ukraine & Sweden
2020 Project Re-Framing Body /Ukraine & Sweden
2015 International dance performance Waiting in the Margins /Ukraine & Georgia &Sweden
2015 Ukrainian–Swedish project Archaeology of Bodies /Ukraine
2012-2013 International theatre project HOME /Ukraine & Sweden
2011-2011 International art project R’Evolution Art /Ukraine & Georgia
2010 Art project Trolley No.9 /Odesa, Ukraine
2009 Project Singing Kettles (artist D. Shijan), festival TransFORM /Warsaw, Poland
2008 Assistance in organization of international project SEAS /Odesa, Ukraine
2006-2007 Manager of Ukrainian-Swedish project SWIZE (“Text: Sound, “Video Diary”, “Folk now”, “Urban Structures”)/ Odesa, Ukraine
2006 International Youth Photo Biennale Beyond the Borders /Odesa, Ukraine
2005-2006 Social project No Roof? /Odesa, Ukraine
2005 International Art Festival GUN /Odesa, Ukraine
2004 International Art Festival A Modern View /Odesa, Ukraine
Residencies:
2020 Klaipeda Photography residency / Klaipeda, Lithuania
2015 Art residency at Villa Arson /Nice, France
2014 GAUDE POLONIA / Warsaw, Poland
2011 – 2013 Curatorial scholarship at PinchukArtCentre /Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Residency ArtsLink, the Museum of Photographic Arts /San Diego, USA
2012 International art expedition CORNERS /Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Russia
2011 International art expedition CORNERS /Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan
2008 Scholarship for art managers, INTERCULT/ Stockholm, Sweden
Selected Lectures / Discussions / Symposiums:
2019 Lecture Propaganda and Manipulation in Photography /Warsaw, Poland
2019 Curatorial talk A Body in Ukrainian Photography /Riga, Latvia
2019 Lecture Photography as Propaganda /Weimar, Germany
2017 Art Fair SUOMI International Art Festival, professional round table discussion Limits and Borders in the Art Field and Ways to Step out of Them /Helsinki, Finland
2017 Lecture Photography of Change, Center of Urban History of East Central Europe /Lviv, Ukraine
2016 Lecture Ukrainian Photography: Path Toward Independence and Manifestation, Finnish Museum of Photography /Helsinki, Finland
2016 Moderating discussion Image Interpretation Processes in the Post-Soviet Countries, Riga Photo Month /Riga, Latvia
2016 Presentation Private Memory. Project “Archive of the Memory” /Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Artist Talk at Villa Arson/ Nice, France
2014 Hosting workshop Batumi Alternative Guide Book /Batumi, Georgia
2014 Presenting at the conference Art in Public Space with a lecture Public Art of Maidan /Gdansk, Poland
2013 Symposium Slow Revolution: Art and Culture in the Institutional and Territorial Peripheries /Riga, Latvia
2013 Conference Art in Public Space /Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Lecture Development of Contemporary Photography in the Post-Soviet Countries, the Museum of Photographic Arts /San Diego, USA
2012 Lecture Development of Contemporary Photography in the Post-Soviet Countries, George Washington University /Washington DC, USA
2009 Conference City Scape /Gothenburg, Sweden
2009 Conference of the project Rivers// Cities /Stockholm, Sweden
Selected Publications / Books:
2021 Propaganda and Manipulation or hidden Ukrainian photography, Wszyscy Jestesmy Fotografami VOL.2, 192-211. Warsaw 2021
2020 Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes, page 263. Editionss Textuel, Paris 2020.
2019 Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit’s Photography Archive. When a Photograph Tells a Story. Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit. Overcoming Gravity, 146-152. Kyiv 2019.
2017 Images Tell Stories, a book published in collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Photography. Helsinki 2017.
2016 Public Art on Maidan. Rebellion in an Artistic Form. Chronicles of One Winter, 111-118. Donbas. First Line. Kyiv 2016.
2012 R’Evolution Art Project Catalog. Kyiv, 84 pages.
2012 Alternative Art Guide Book. Odesa 2012, 128 pages.
Every Curator’s Handbook, Five Terms to Fly to Space, pp. 49-51.
Portfolio reviewer: Landskrona Photo Festival (Sweden), Photo Wien (Austria), Lodz Photo Festival (Poland), Riga Photo Months (Latvia), Suwon Photo Festival (South Korea).