Ukrainian Museum in New York appoints Peter Doroshenko as new director – ARTnews.com

The Ukrainian Museum in New York announced Friday that Peter Doroshenko will be its new director.

Prior to his appointment to the Ukrainian Museum, Doroshenko served as director of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum of contemporary art in Dallas, Texas, for 11 years. Doroshenko has also worked as a director at the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in the UK, the Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee, and the Stedelijk Museum for Actuele Kunst in Ghent, Belgium.

Doroshenko also served as the founding president of PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine, a private art museum founded in 2006 by Ukrainian-born billionaire Viktor Pinchuk to display contemporary Ukrainian artists. Pinchuk, the second richest person in Ukraine has appeared ARTnews List of Top 200 Collectors from 2008 to 2015. The Pinchuk Center for the Arts, which closed shortly after the Russian invasion in March, It reopened in July with a photo exhibition Documenting the war.

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“Through my firm commitment to the Ukrainian art scene since 1993, I have seen the progress of both artists and institutions across Ukraine. I am excited about the important history and great potential that the Ukrainian Museum holds and how it can be a mirror of Ukraine’s rich cultural activities,” Doroshenko said in a statement.

He continued, “In these tragic and troubling times – with the horrific war – the world now knows more about us, and our culture must continue to create context for what it means to be Ukrainian today.”

In March, Doroshenko worked with Christie’s to hold an auction of international and Ukrainian artists, which Raised over $400,000 for MSF’s efforts in Ukraine. Doroshenko served as Commissioner of Ukrainian Pavilions at the Venice Biennale three times: in 2007, 2009 and 2017.

Founded in 1976, the Ukrainian Museum is the largest art institution in the world outside of Ukraine dedicated to highlighting Ukrainian art and culture.

Doroshenko’s first exhibition with the museum will be “Trace of Damage”, which will evoke the closed and desperate situation of art museums in the war-torn country. The galleries will display a range of works from the museum’s collection, but it will remain dark except for a series of works by the Kyiv-based Bablyon’13 Film Collection that depict the current war with Russia.

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