Viktoria Bavykina

Viktoria Bavykina is a curator, art critic, and sociologist of culture. She works with photography, political art, and feminist optics in artistic practices. She was a curator of the Grynyov Art Collection and art director of the AKT art space in Kyiv, Ukraine. She co-curated the exhibitions Open Opportunity at M17 Contemporary Art Centre (2021, Kyiv), Volyazlovsky and All His Creative Life at YermilovCentre (2021, Kharkiv), Instant Time at Mystetskyi Arsenal (2018, Kyiv). She was a curator of the Kharkiv Photo Forum - an international conference on photography. In 2020, Bavykina defended her PhD in sociology of culture at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She is currently a student at the University of Liverpool, pursuing an MA in Art, Philosophy, and Cultural Institutions under the UK Government's Chevening scholarship programme.