Curator, cultural manager and researcher
Institutions & projects:
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:
Defending Cultural Heritage in Times of War
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:
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:
Defending Cultural Heritage in Times of War
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.