Lizaveta German

Lizaveta German

Guest Speaker

Art Historian and Researcher, Ukraine

Lizaveta German is a researcher with a Ph.D. in art history. She has been a part of an independent curatorial collective with Maria Lanko since 2013. She was a guest curator at the Liverpool Biennial (2016, UK). German co-edited the books The Art of the Ukrainian Sixties and Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics contributed to the educational websites Cultural Project and Sense and lectured on Contemporary Art at Kyiv Academy of Media Arts.

During the residency, German gave lectures on the history and theory of curation, lead a series of workshops on curating and preparing art projects (the basics of curatorial research, guidelines for putting together a display and writing wall texts, conventions of interacting with artists), and served as a consultant for ArtEast students’ final exhibition. German planned to visit studios and local art institutions. She also studied museum collections in Bishkek and nearby cities as part of research for a book about the history of curation in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries.