Olesia Pavlyshyn

Editor-in-Chief at “Kunsht” pop-sci media.

Artist from Kyiv, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. In recent years, she has been painting watercolor paintings, and blogging about the cultural life of Kyiv. Guardian of the artistic legacy of the creative spouses Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretsky.

Literary critic, editor-in-chief of BaraBooka website, writer.

Dr. habil., prof. at T. Shevchenko KNU, prize-winner of Shevelov Award, member of UPF board, chairman of editorial board of the book series “Library of Classical World Academic Thought”, member of PEN Ukraine, editorial board of Philosophical Thought Journal, academic board of LIBRI VIRIDES book series (Germany), academic board of The Interlocutor Journal (Poland), board of international organization “Central and East European Society for Phenomenology”, Board for Development of the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

PhD in genetics. R&D team lead in agriculture. Ambassador of scientific knowledge about Chornobyl and radiation.

Director of the Ukrainian Book Institute, president of the “Publishers’ Forum” NGO (1995–2018), co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Book Publishers and Booksellers, the Ukrainian Association of Reading.

Born in Kyiv, Igor Holfman graduated from the Industrial College (1979), and Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Arts (1987). He studied Jewish history, culture, and ethnography. He wrote dozens of articles on this topic in various publications. Author of the collection of memoirs “Shizya” (2014). Co-author of the historical guide “Jewish Addresses of Kyiv” (2012) and “The Jewish World of the Postcard”. Author of lyrics for various Ukrainian performers.

Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Philosophy and Culture at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a contemporary Ukrainian cultural scholar and public intellectual. She is the Academic Director of the MBA program at the Edinburgh Business School at the House of Knowledge, an expert at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, and a member of the expert council at the MСІР regarding the issues of overcoming the consequences of Russification and totalitarianism.

Kateryna Nosko is a publisher at ist publishing, cultural manager, and journalist. Curator of educational programs and exhibitions, author of the book “Where is Curation”.

Basel-based cultural critic and curator from Kyiv. She writes on decoloniality, solidarity, and care with a special focus on artistic practices and societal dynamics in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Global South. She curates the Swiss multidisciplinary biennial Culturescapes and edits its anthologies. Member of PEN-Ukraine. Earlier this year, she was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in the nomination of Public Discourse for her text on art in Ukraine after February 2022.