Curator, cultural manager and researcher

Institutions & projects:

Kyiv Biennial

Emergency Support Initiative

East Europe Biennial Alliance

Visual Culture Research Center

Selected press:

The New York Times

Kyiv’s Exiled Biennial Is the Most Energizing Exhibition of the Year

The Village Voice

We Are Ukrainians: Learning From the 2023 Kyiv Biennial

Die Zeit

Kiew Biennale 2023: Kunst macht Borschtsch

Interviews:

Instructions for Survival

Defending Cultural Heritage in Times of War

Interview for MuseumsQuartier Wien

Emergency Support Initiative

Kyiv, Ukraine serhiyklymko@gmail.com

For the past 10 years, Serge Klymko has worked as a curator, cultural manager, and researcher, focusing on visual and performance art, music, and planetary research. He has launched projects in Barcelona, Berlin, Geneva, Karlsruhe, Kyiv, Malmo, Prague, Riga, Tbilisi, Vienna, and Warsaw, collaborating with a wide range of artists and theorists. Since 2015, Serge has been the managing director and co-founder of the Kyiv Biennial, an international forum for art, knowledge, and politics that includes exhibitions and discussion platforms. The 6th, anniversary edition of the Biennial will be open this year in Kyiv, Dnipro, Antwerp, Linz ans Warsaw. In 2016, he became a founder of Khashi, an interdisciplinary space for performative arts and urban ecosystems research in Kyiv. In 2018, Serge was among the founders of East Europe Biennial Alliance. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, he has led the Emergency Support Initiative (ESI) to help the Ukrainian artistic community under unprecedented conditions of destruction and forced migration. Recently he became a part of the Make/Sense PhD program at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.

Curator, cultural manager and researcher

Institutions & projects:

Kyiv Biennial

Emergency Support Initiative

East Europe Biennial Alliance

Visual Culture Research Center

Selected press:

The New York Times

Kyiv’s Exiled Biennial Is the Most Energizing Exhibition of the Year

The Village Voice

We Are Ukrainians: Learning From the 2023 Kyiv Biennial

Die Zeit

Kiew Biennale 2023: Kunst macht Borschtsch

Interviews:

Instructions for Survival

Defending Cultural Heritage in Times of War

Interview for MuseumsQuartier Wien

Emergency Support Initiative

Kyiv, Ukraine serhiyklymko@gmail.com

For the past 10 years, Serge Klymko has worked as a curator, cultural manager, and researcher, focusing on visual and performance art, music, and planetary research. He has launched projects in Barcelona, Berlin, Geneva, Karlsruhe, Kyiv, Malmo, Prague, Riga, Tbilisi, Vienna, and Warsaw, collaborating with a wide range of artists and theorists. Since 2015, Serge has been the managing director and co-founder of the Kyiv Biennial, an international forum for art, knowledge, and politics that includes exhibitions and discussion platforms. The 6th, anniversary edition of the Biennial will be open this year in Kyiv, Dnipro, Antwerp, Linz ans Warsaw. In 2016, he became a founder of Khashi, an interdisciplinary space for performative arts and urban ecosystems research in Kyiv. In 2018, Serge was among the founders of East Europe Biennial Alliance. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, he has led the Emergency Support Initiative (ESI) to help the Ukrainian artistic community under unprecedented conditions of destruction and forced migration. Recently he became a part of the Make/Sense PhD program at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.