Kyiv, Ukraine serhiyklymko@gmail.com

For the past 15 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, Kyiv, Malmö, Prague, Riga, Tbilisi, Vienna, and Warsaw, collaborating with a wide range of artists and theorists. Since 2015, he has been the managing director and co-founder of the Kyiv Biennial, an international forum comprising exhibitions and discussion platforms that brings together art, knowledge, and politics. The 6th anniversary edition of the Biennial opened in Kyiv, Dnipro, Antwerp, Linz, and Warsaw in 2025. In 2016, he founded Khashi, an interdisciplinary space for performative arts and urban ecosystems research in Kyiv. In 2018, he was one of the founders of the East European Biennial Alliance. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, he has led the Emergency Support Initiative to support the Ukrainian artistic community in the face of unprecedented destruction and forced migration. He has recently joined the Make/Sense PhD programme at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.