Yulia Krivich ⏐ Loore (ukraine)

Yulia Krivich is a visual artist, researcher, and curator whose practice operates at the intersection of art, activism, collective practices, and decolonial critique. She is currently a PhD fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where her research integrates archival analysis with the form of the film essay.

Originally trained as an architect and multimedia artist, Krivich began her artistic career in photography before expanding into a multidisciplinary practice. Her work has been exhibited at institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), the public program of documenta 15 (Kassel), Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (Japan), and the Vilnius Performance Biennale (Lithuania), as well as exhibitions in the United States.

As a curator, she has realized projects across Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious CEC ArtsLink Fellowship in the United States. Between 2022 and 2024, she co-founded the Sunflower Solidarity Community Center at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—a grassroots initiative that received a nomination for the Paszport Polityki award in 2023. Her works are held in the public collection of the ING Polish Art Foundation and numerous private collections.

Project:

During the residency, I plan to use the provided time for focused art-based research related to my doctoral project, which examines the ideological construct of “Friendship of Nations” and its visual representations in the Soviet bloc. The residency will function as a research base for working with archival materials from the Baltic region, complemented by on-site contextual research in Estonia.

My main activities will include reviewing, selecting, and critically analyzing visual sources such as film chronicles, documentary footage, photography, and printed propaganda related to Soviet internationalism and cultural unification. In parallel with archival research, I will begin transforming selected materials into an experimental moving image format, testing montage strategies and narrative structures.

The residency will allow me to develop a coherent visual and conceptual framework for a new video work, including a preliminary edit or prototype. I also plan to engage in public events and conversations with artists, researchers and a broader audience to situate my research within the specific historical and cultural context of the Baltic region.