Lesia Kulchinska

Description

Lesia Kulchynska is a curator and researcher in media and visual studies, currently based in Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has worked as a researcher at the Pinchuk Art Center and as a curator at the Visual Culture Research Center and Kyiv Biennial in Kyiv. In 2018/2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University, where she worked on violent responses to art, studying cases of banned and attacked exhibitions in Ukraine. She was also a postdoctoral fellow of Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History (Rome, Italy) from 2022 to 2024, and a fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (2024-2025), where she investigated the networked visuality of violence during the Russo–Ukrainian War. Currently, she continues her research as a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on the convergence of Russian media infrastructures and infrastructures of violence on the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.