Alexandra Tryanova (Odesa, Ukraine, 1990) is an independent curator, researcher and author, member of the CCQO at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University).
She graduated from the KASK Curatorial studies course (Gent, 2022) and holds a Master's degrees in cultural studies (2018, Kyiv) and law (2013, Odesa).
Her interests focus on artistic practices connected with recreation, gender, memory, and Eastern European avant-gardes.
Recent projects and exhibitions: I`m not here to be stronger than you, Mimosa House, London, Just like Arcadia, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (2022); series of online-talks Conflict zones at Jester, Genk (2022); Velniai, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda (2021). Recent publications: Passivity: Between Indifference and Pacifism (co-edited with Pascal Gielen), 2023, Valiz, Amsterdam.
Previously she was a curator at the Museum of Odesa Modern Art and PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv). Since 2017 she has been running an independent non-production residency Kunsthalle Lustdorf based on temporary independent artistic and curatorial associations for open practices and technologies in the area of the Green Valley in the suburbs of Odesa.
Lives and works between Kyiv and Brussels.
© 2024 Alexandra Tryanova