Kateryna Iakovlenko is a Ukrainian writer and curator who studies the impact of war on art and memory. She worked as a program manager and curator of the Donba Studies project at the Izolyatsia (2014-2015), a researcher and curator of public programs at the PinchukArtCentre (2016-2021).
Among her publications are the book “Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art” (2019) and co-editor of the special issue “Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014” in Obieg magazine (2019). Among the curatorial projects: “Everyone is afraid of the baker, but I thank you” (apartment exhibition, Irpin, 2022), “I dreamed of the beasts” (Labirynt gallery, 2022-2023, r with Halyna Hleba), “Our years, our words, our losses, our searches, our us” (Jam Factory, 2023-2024, with Natalia Matsenko and Borys Filonenko); among others. She is a co-curator of the Ukrainian part of the Secondary Archive project.
Currently, she is the Cultural Editor-in-chief of UPB Suspilne Media.