Presentation of the Results of the Project "Reimagining the Museum" + Discussion

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When: June 3, 2025, starts at 18:30 Where: Diya Business (1 Petro Kalnyshevskoho St.)

The project is led by cultural manager and curator Sviatoslav Mykhailov with the support of the European Union within the House of Europe programme, in collaboration with British expert Neil Titman and the Kryvyi Rih Cultural Centre / KRCC.
Over the course of two months, the project participants — artists, researchers, students, and activists from Kryvyi Rih — explored contemporary practices of decolonizing museum institutions, analyzed the exhibitions of the local history museum, and held discussions on the traumas of modernization, imperial legacy, and possible alternatives. As a result, they developed a series of artworks, analytical materials, and artistic proposals for updating the museum’s exhibitions and spatial design.
Leading Ukrainian museum professionals and researchers also contributed to the programme, including:
– Svitlana Biedarieva (art historian, researcher of postcolonial art),– Leonid Marushchak (NGO “Museum is Open for Renovation”),– Yevheniia Butsykina and Milena Khomchenko (PinchukArtCentre),– Olena Zhukova (museologist, heritage researcher).
Among the project participants from Kryvyi Rih are:
Kateryna Bondarets (artist), Nastia Ekh (artist), Anzhela Kunytsia (designer, artist), Oksana Zharun (artist), Olha Marchenko (artist), Tetiana Milchuk (tour guide, civic activist, member of the Ukrainian Association of Guides), Viktoriia Patsiuk (PhD in Geography, Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Geography, Local Studies and Tourism at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University), Andrii Sechko (student at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Cultural Studies, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University), Kseniia Fursa (student in Creative Industries Management), Olena Shkolna (cultural events reviewer).
“Reimagining the Museum is about the community’s right to its own history, the power of art as a tool for decolonization, and the creation of a museum that speaks to the city in the living language of today,” says project curator Sviatoslav Mykhailov.
The presentation of results will include an open discussion, a showcase of analytical and visual materials created by the participants, and an outline of the next steps in transforming the museum space in Kryvyi Rih.

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