Oleksiy Radynski
Born 1984. Kiev-based art historian, critic and curator with a special interest to Soviet avant-garde and its influence on contemporary visual culture. Among recent works – extended essays on the interconnections between Walter Benjamin’s and Dziga Vertov’s approaches to media theory and practice and on research-based art strategies in Boris Mikhailov’s Unfinished Dissertation. In 2006-2007 edited the screen arts magazine KINO-KOLO. In 2006 carried out the research of conceptual practices in contemporary photography at CCA Zamek Ujazdovski, Warsaw. In 2008-2009 – curator at Kyiv city gallery Lavra. Currently – curator at Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv). Post-graduate student at Cultural Studies Department of National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’, preparing the dissertation on appropriation of Soviet montage theories in contemporary media.
