
Botanova Kateryna
Kateryna Botanova (Kyiv/Basel) is a Ukrainian cultural critic, curator, and writer based in Basel. She is a co-curator of CULTURESCAPES, a Swiss multidisciplinary biennial, and an editor of the critical anthologies that accompany each festival, among them Culturescapes 2021 Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology; On the Edge: Culturescapes 2019 Poland; Culturescapes 2023: Sahara (upcoming).
She was a director of CSM/Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, where, in 2010, she launched and edited Korydor, the online journal on contemporary culture. She has worked extensively with EU Eastern Partnership Culture Program and EUNIC Global as a consultant and expert.
A member of PEN Ukraine, she publishes widely on arts and culture. Recently, her essays and articles appeared in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Eurozine, Osteuropa, Various Artists, Dwutygodnik, Tagesspiegel, Atlantic Council.
Her essays were included in Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021. Ibidem, 2021; Future We Are Longing For. Tempora, 2020; Bridges Not Walls: What Unites Ukrainians. VSL, 2020.
Bibliography
Авторка численних публікацій в Українській правді, LB.ua, Korydor, Критиці, НВ, Дзеркалі тижня, а також OpenDemocracy, Eurozine, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Surprise, Herito та інших.
Редакторка книжок:
- Archaeology of the Future. In CULTURESCAPES Greece. Archaeology of the Future. Ed. by Kateryna Botanova, Christos Chrissopoulos, Jurriaan Cooiman. CMV, 2017 (also in German)
- Imagining the Public. The Status and Challenges of the Independent Cultural Actors in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Ed. by Natasa Bodrozic with Kateryna Botanova, Nora Galfayan, Nini Palavandishvili and Vladimir Us. Oikodrom, Vienna, 2014
- In Search of Spaces of Negotiation. Kyiv: ADEF-Ukraine, 2012 (also in Ukrainian)
Співперекладачка книжок:
- Едвард Саїд. Культура та імперіалізм. Київ, Критика. 2008 (нагорода Книга року’2008)
- Віталій Чернецький. Картографуючи посткомуністичні культури. Київ, Критика. 2013