The #ScienceForUkraine Initiative
 

March 1, 2022, the Bibliotheca Hertziana has condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine and published a call for doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for researchers in the field of art history who are at risk in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, independently from their nationality. The denomination of the #ScienceForUkraine Fellowships honors the ScienceForUkraine network that academics created at amazing pace across the globe, and which will be a model for future actions in support of scholars at risk.

#ScienceForUkraine Fellowships

The Bibliotheca Hertziana is pleased to host Ukrainian and Russian scholars who work on contemporary, modern, and early modern art.

  • Alina Kondratjuk, Ph.D. (The National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve), studies the mural painting of the Church of the Savior at Berestove, 2022–2024.
  • Dr. Lesia Kulchynska (Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv) explores the clashes with art as the points of high intensity in relationships between art and society, 2022–2024.
  • Alexander Lemeshinski, M.A. (European University at St. Petersburg), studies West German Art Museums in the 1950–1990s in the context of architectural discussion and cultural policy, 2022–2023.
  • Yevheniia Moliar, M.A., studies the cultural heritage of the soviet period in contemporary Ukrainian art, 2022–2023.
  • Dr. Oleksandra Osadcha (Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography) explores the photographic medium and archival practices in collaboration with the BHMPI’s Photographic Collection, 2022–2024.
  • Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) studies Vincenzo Brenna (1741–1820), a Russian-Italian travelling architect, 2022–2024.
  • Alexander Sushinsky, M.A. (The Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, MARI Kiev), explores counterfactual artistic practices in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, 2022.
  • Kateryna Filyuk, M.A. (University of Palermo), studies the photographic work of Iryna Pap, 2023.

We thank the Istituto Svizzero Roma, the Casa di Goethe, the Accademia Belgica, the Royal Netherlands Institute Rome and the École française de Rome for their spontaneous and generous support of the initiative and the excellent collaboration.

Getty x Hertziana Grants

Thanks to The Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative, the Bibliotheca Hertziana was able to offer eighteen emergency grants to support the scientific activities of Ukrainian art historians in Ukraine. The grantees have presented their research online

Field Study Trips

The department has organized two field study trips related to Eastern Europe:

  • Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia in 2022 (on Twitter)
  • Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania in 2023

Events

The Web of Images

Piotr Ł. Grotowski, Olena Derevska
Public event without registration
03.06.2024 11:00 - 12:30
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Synthetic Realities, Real Violence: AI and Imaging Tech in Contemporary Conflicts

Donatella Della Ratta, Lesia Vasylchenko
Public event without registration
21.05.2024 11:00 - 13:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

In-Between: the Scylla and Charybdis of Official and non-official in the Late Soviet Epoch

Alex Bykov, David Crowley, Agnė Narušytė
Public event without registration
18.03.2024 11:00 - 13:15
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and the Spectre of Orientalism

Tomasz Grusiecki
Public event without registration
03.07.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Elena Subach: Hidden

Research Exhibition
Exhibition extended until July 3
02.07.2023 - 03.07.2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30

Mapping Entanglements of Art, Animal Furs, and Unfree Persons Between the Early Modern Baltic and Italy: the Case of Late Seicento Lithuania and Tuscany

Ruth Sargent Noyes
02.05.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Medieval Art in Georgia through the Soviet Lens: from Colonialist Marginalization to Nationalist Acclamation

Alžběta Filipová
27.04.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Second Sex, Gender Check and the Feminist Avant-Garde

Beáta Hock
Event open to the public without registration
30.03.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art. Meeting 5

Art History in Ukraine, Now: A Workshop with Getty x Hertziana Grantees
Event open to the public without registration
13.03.2023 17:00 - 15.03.2023 18:30
Online via Zoom

(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art. Meeting 4

Tetiana Kochubinska and Natalia Matsenko
Event open to the public without registration
07.03.2023 11:00 - 13:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art. Meeting 3

Polina Baitsym and Oksana Trypolska
Event open to the public without registration
21.02.2023 11:00 - 13:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art. Meeting 2

Svitlana Rybalko and Oksana Barshynova
07.02.2023 11:00 - 13:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Research Seminar Series: “Shifting Images and Ideas of Europe’s East: An Art Historical Approach from the Margins”

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
30.01.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art. Meeting 1

Stefaniia Demchuk and Nazar Kozak
Event on-site and online
07.12.2022 14:00 - 16:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

Describing Ukraine: Cartography and Travelogues

Exhibition online
30.11.2022
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30

Past and Present Witnesses for Political Dissent in Belarus — Unofficial and Official Monuments in Dialogue

Iryna Herasimovich, Artur Klinaŭ, Antonina Slobodchikova, Mikhail Gulin
Event on-site and online
09.11.2022 16:00 - 18:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Screening & Artist Talk with Mykola Ridnyi

Mykola Ridnyi
Event on-site and online
02.11.2022 14:00 - 16:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Images of War / War of Images: Politics of Visuality during Russian Invasion in Ukraine

Lesia Kulchynska, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Oleksandr Sushynsky, Oleksandra Osadcha, Yevheniia Moliar
Online event via Zoom and on site
13.09.2022 11:30 - 15:30
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Performances in the Garden: Ghosts are Welcomed to the Garden

Performance
Previa registrazione obbligatoria
28.05.2022 19:00 - 20:30
Istituto Svizzero, Raum: Entrance: Via Liguria 20, 00187 Rome

'The Unbreakable Wall'. Saint Sophia in Kyiv, between War and Politics

Ivan Foletti et al.
19.04.2022 11:00 - 13:00
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Spring Opening Lecture: Raphael and Stalin in Dresden: Art, Display, and Ideology

Tristan Weddigen
02.03.2022 17:15 - 18:45
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom
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