| ISPA 2025 Lugano Congress– Kateryna Botanova |
 Kateryna BotanovaIndependent Cultural Researcher and Curator Kateryna Botanova is an independent cultural researcher and curator who lives and works between Ukraine and Switzerland. She writes and lectures on decoloniality and solidarity in societal transformations and cultural practices outside the Global West. Currently, she is a head of analytics at the Frontier Institute, Kyiv, and an affiliated curator at the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv. She co-curates the Swiss multidisciplinary biennial Culturescapes, where she worked with the cultural landscapes of the Amazon and Northern and Western African regions (2019-2025). Since 2019, she has been a jury member and expert of the European Spaces of Culture program from EUNIC Global, which operates in more than 40 countries worldwide. Botanova is a member of PEN Ukraine and a member of the advisory board of RUTA-Association for Central, Southeastern, Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies. The last book she edited, Reclaiming History. Decoloniality and Art in Ukraine after 1991, is coming out in the spring of 2025. In the summer of 2025, she will curate exhibitions Kherson. Embrace of the Steppe in Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv) and Archipelago of History in PinchukArtCenter (Kyiv). Speaker |
