Oleksandra Osadcha
researcher, curator
Art Historian, PhD. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She gained MA in History or Art and enrolled in a doctoral programme of the department of Theory and History of Arts at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Has been curating exhibition projects in Kharkiv since 2008. In 2018 Osadcha became the curator and researcher of the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP). Defended her PhD thesis in 2020. Lecturer at the of Theory and History of Arts at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, author of lectures for MYPH photography school, PinchukArtCentre, Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv.
Selected texts
Osadcha Oleksandra, Kovlachuk Nadiia. The strategies of visual representation of “Homo Sovieticus” (on the material of the Kharkiv School of Photography). Sztuka Europy Wschodniej, 2019, Vol. VII. 199-205.
Osadcha Oleksandra. “Collage Panopticon of Sergey Solonsky”. MOKSOP, March 06, 2019. URL: https://www.moksop.org/en/collage-panopticon-of-sergiy-solonsky/.
Osadcha Oleksandra. “Roman Pyatkovka: A Field Study of ‘Communal’ body”. PHROOM, July 30, 2020. URL: https://phroommagazine.com/roman-pyatkovka/.
Osadcha Oleksandra. First issue: Kochetov. Kharkiv: MOKSOP, 2018. 2-8.
Osadcha Oleksandra. “Alexander Chekemenv: Forgotten Land”. Alexander Chekmenev. Pamiršta žemė / Forgotten Land. Klaipeda: Klaipėda Branch of Lithuanian Photographers Association, 2020, 104-109.
Osadcha Olelsandra, “Searching for photography-as-art: Theoretical views of Jury Rupin in the official photographic discourse of the late Soviet period”, Kharkiv Photo Forum, Kharkiv, 2020, 52-60. (paper abstract)
Sergey Melnitchenko. Schwarzenegger is my Idol. Kharkiv: MOKSOP, 2020. (foreword).
Бернар-Ковальчук Надія, “Харківська школа фотографії: гра проти апарату”, Харків: MOKSOP, 2020. 368 с. (editor).
Осадча Олександра. “Віктор та Сергій Кочетови: ‘не-затверджені моменти’ ”. MOKSOP, May 10, 2020. https://www.moksop.org/viktor-ta-serhiy-kochetov-ne-zatverdzheni-momenty/
Осадча Олександра. “Забута земля / Forgotten Land”. Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv. Kyiv: Антиквар, 2020. 122-125.
Осадча Олександра. “Олександр Чекменьов: ‘Лілії’ ”. Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv. Kyiv: Антиквар, 2020. 126-127.
Осадча Олександра. “Роман Пятковка: польові дослідження ‘комунального тіла’ ”. MOKSOP, August 17, 2019. https://www.moksop.org/viktor-ta-serhiy-kochetov-ne-zatverdzheni-momenty/
Осадча Олександра. “Творення перформативної тілесності через іконографічні схеми сакрального мистецтва в проектах авторів Харківської школи фотографії”. Сьомі Платонівські читання. Kyiv: National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, 2019, 128-129. (paper abstract)
CURATED PROJECTS
2018 — “Ані важливого, ані головного, або Все продається окрім піонерської честі” (solo exhibition of Victor and Sergey Kochetov), COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 — “Рідний край” (exhibition of the group “Shilo”), COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 — “Transit” (exhibition of Alexander Chekmenev, and Viktor and Sergey Kochetov), part of Odesa Photo Days 2019, State Museum of Litarature, Odesa, Ukraine
2019 — “Шварценеггер – мій кумир” (solo exhibition of Sergey Melnitchenko), COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 — “Коливання” (exhibiton of Sergiy Solonsky), COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 — “Паралельні світи” (solo exhibition of Oleksandr Suprun), COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2020 — “Artist in the Game”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukaine