Mag. Yana Gryniv, curator
Mag. Yana Gryniv is a Ukrainian art curator and multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine, founder of a curatorial platform Art Contact Ukraine. Yana Gryniv has an experience in art management (2022-ongoing), project management at the NGO advocating for the European integration of Ukraine (2014-2019), Master´s Degree in Chinese, English and German philology and linguistics at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (2007-2013), art practice and study in various fields of art (2005-ongoing), art history study in Modern Art History at the University of Oxford (2023). Her work is focused on bringing awareness through art so that others can bring change. She studies pottery and silk-screening in the USA, and photography at Kyiv Photo School in Ukraine. Currently she is pursuing her Master´s Degree in Art History at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Our curator took part in the
«Transforming a community through sustainable management of cultural heritage» programme
Now our platform is ready for the next projects to make a positive change and contribute to Ukraine's revitalization.
6 days of the study visit are over and that was an extraordinary experience!
The programme «Transforming a community through sustainable management of cultural heritage» was organized by Tvrđava sv. Ivana and ERSTE Foundation. For 6 days in Šibenik the leading experts in cultural heritage revitalization from the Fortress of Culture shared their successful experience on various aspects in cultural management. 16 cultural experts from Ukraine took part in the programme.
Knowledge on the EU funding programs, grant-writing, project management, sustainable cultural heritage development, partnership projects, transformation of a community through culture, digitisation of cultural heritage, the power of the civil society as the changemaker, the specifics of work within a cultural institution, was shared within this amazing pilot project.
Existential challenges Ukraine is facing are closely connected with the intentions of Russia to destroy the cultural heritage and Ukrainian identity. For this reason, transferring of successful experience on cultural heritage revitalization from other countries is of immense importance to us.
The video was prepared by the Fortress of Culture Tvrđava kulture Šibenik
Curator Yana Gryniv received a certificate on completion of an
art course at the University of Oxford
The course focused on how to look at modern art, from 1900 to the present day, in an open-minded, critical and analytical way. It was taught by Gordon Reavley who is specialising in the topics in Art History and Visual and Material Culture for Oxford University's Dept of Continuing Education (OUDCE), and Critical Theory for the University of Nottingham.
FHEQ level 4, 10 weeks, 10 hours per week, a total of about 100 study hours.
