Natasha Chychasova

Natasha Chychasova is a curator and researcher from Donetsk, based in Kyiv. She works on strategies for the deconstruction of post-Soviet legacies, and feminist art practices. She is the Head of the Contemporary Art Department at Mystetskyi Arsenal, one of the largest cultural institutions in Ukraine. At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, she curated the online platform Ukraine Ablaze, which aims to share information about Ukrainian artists and their works which, since 2014, have reflected on war. Her curatorial projects include: “This is not a Museum, this is a Plant” (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020); Heart of Earth (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022); “Forms of Presence” (2023); “Coexisting with Darkness” (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023-2024); and “Between Farewell and Return” (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024). She is also the co-author of Collective Fantasies and Eastern Resources alongside the artist Kateryna Aliinyk.