Svitlana
Biedarieva

Awardee

Country

Ukraine

Svitlana Biedarieva promotes racial justice through artistic research.

Themes
Racial justice
Free expression / Civil society
Reexamining history
Disciplines
Artistic Research
Criticism
Visual Art
Awards
SEED Award 2022

Profile

Svitlana Biedarieva is a Ukrainian artist with a focus on the topics of war, identity, memory, and resistance. Her project “The Morphology of War” (2017) was presented at the Museo Erasto Cortes in Puebla, Mexico, the National Center of Arts in Mexico City, and the 5th International Biennale of Odesa in Ukraine. In 2019 she curated the exhibition and the general program “At the Front Line; Ukrainian Art 2013-2019” (with Hanna Deikun), a project about Russia’s war in Ukraine, which was presented in Mexico City and Winnipeg. Svitlana holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and has also edited several books dedicated to Ukrainian art.