Max Gorbatskyi

Max Gorbatskyi is a curator at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, UK). Together with Viktoria Bavykina, he has been named curator of the Ukrainian Pavillion at the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. Previously, Gorbatskyi was a curator at the Department of Contemporary Art at the Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), where he led the photography direction and, among other projects, co-curated a large-scale photography exhibition 'Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography'. Gorbatskyi's long-time focus has been on contemporary photography and private photo archives. Together with Bavykina, he founded Ukrainian.Photographies – a platform aimed at facilitating international research of Ukrainian photography. In 2023, they curated the HOME programme, partnering Open Eye Gallery as a parallel programme of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, UK. Gorbatskyi is a recipient of the UK government's Chevening Scholarship. He holds an MA in History of Photography at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MA in Cultural Management at the University of Bologna.