We continue the series of public interviews “What Does It Mean to Be a Ukrainian Artist?” On April 26 at 4 pm, a conversation between Andrii Boyarov and Tetiana Kochubinska will take place.
Andrii Boyarov’s practice unfolds across the roles of artist, researcher, and curator. As an artist, he has developed at the intersection of different traditions, cultures, and cities. His formation took place within a triangle between Lviv, Warsaw, and Tallinn, in the context of post-Soviet transformation. His shifting identity has been—and continues to be—shaped between various cultural contexts and the gaps between them.
Boyarov’s works are often based on the appropriation and reuse of images from different contexts. Through installations resembling open archives, he engages with ruptures, lacunae, and the peripheries of history, where absence itself becomes material. Working with archives, memory, and historical displacements has become one of his key artistic strategies.
During the interview, we will discuss how to exist simultaneously within multiple artistic and historical paradigms; about travel and living across several cities at once—and how, from this tension, a language can emerge that is both local and universal, becoming part of a global visual heritage. How can we speak about national identity in a transnational, nomadic world? How can one construct a national identity shaped across time and space at the intersection of different cultures, artistic paradigms, countries, and journeys?
Event Details
Date: April 26, 2026, 4 pm
Location: Jam Factory Art Center
(124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St., Upper Exhibition Hall)
Admission: Free with registration. Limited capacity.
Andrij Bojarov is a visual artist, independent curator and researcher living and creating in-between Ukraine, Poland and Estonia. His education includes a degree in architecture at Lviv Polytechnic and extensive travelling and exploration in visual arts. Since early 1990s he is active as an artist in the field of conceptual photography and video-art, being a pioneer of the latter in post-soviet space. From the 2000s he focused on exploring largely neglected local histories of avant-garde and neo-avantgarde art in the Central-European context, expanding and blending his artist and curatorial work with research practices. This resulted in large scale exhibitions in an art-institutions in Poland and Ukraine, among others: Knowns-Unknowns at Centrum Zamenhofa, Białystok (2017) – on Contemporary Lviv’ media-art and photography, Montages. Debora Vogel and New Legend of the City at Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, EXPERIMENT! Photography at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Lviv and its Polish and Ukrainian Continuators in the 20th and 21st Centuries at Forum Fotografii, Imaginarium and Nova galleries in Lodz (2018), Domowroty/Повернення/Homing. Włodzimierz Puchalski, International Cultural Center, Kraków (2022). Margit, Jolanta and other Women of Lviv at National Art Museum of Ukraine (2024) etc.
Tatiana Kochubinska is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and lecturer focusing on contemporary art, memory, and the legacies of the 1990s in post-Soviet society. She has co-curated major international projects, including Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories: Ukrainian Art 1912–2023 (Dresden, 2023; Zwolle, Netherlands), Landscapes of an Ongoing Past (Essen, 2024), Sense of Safety (Kharkiv, 2024), and Pairs Skating: Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans (Kharkiv, 2025). She co-edited and compiled books including Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Art from Ukraine (2023), Fedir Tetianych. Frypulia (2022), Parcommune. Place. Community. Phenomenon (2018), and a journal Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014 (Obieg, 2020). Since 2022, she has been part of the curatorial team at antiwarcoalition.art, exploring responsibility, collective memory, and the psychological impact of historical events through contemporary art.