Kostіantyn Doroshenko, Kostyantyn (; born 29 October 1972, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian art critic, publicist, contemporary art curator, media manager, and radio host. Doroshenko is well known as a cultural and social journalist with works published in Ukraine, Australia, Azerbaijan, and Italy. He is the host of the radio station Radio Vesti. He is a columnist to company Public Culture; is a curator of the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre since 2019; and is the author of the books 'The End of the Late Iron Age' and 'Aria of Mary'.Books by Konstantin Doroshenko 2019-2021 He is one of the most influential Ukrainian art curators and art critics of Ukraine according to Art Ukraine magazineAlina Sandulyak. 5 most influential art curators in Ukrainian contemporary art. Art Ukraine. 8.08.2013 and Focus magazine. 50 most influential people of contemporary Ukrainian art. Focus Magazine. 27.02.2012 He is also a member of the World League "Mind without drugs" (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).World League "Mind without drugs" On 1 April 2017, Doroshenko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic Užupis among art critics of the world..2584028354630 On the appointment of K. Doroshenko as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the "Republic" Užupis. 1.04.2017
Biography and work in media
Doroshenko was born in Kyiv. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1989–1994) with a history degree. His graduate work was dedicated to European knighthood and courtly culture.
Doroshenko worked at the Museum of History of Kyiv City from 1994 to 1995, where he managed the "Ukrainian diaspora history" department.
From 1995 to 1998, Doroshenko worked in the first Ukrainian lifestyle magazine LOOKS as an editor of the "Society" and "People" departments.
In 2000–2001, he worked in the team that launched the Kommersant newspaper in the Ukrainian market as an editor of the "Society" department and weekend application. In 2001, the project was closed because of pressure against political censorship.
KP Media owner Jed Sunden in 2001 invited Doroshenko to create a new magazine in Kyiv called "Afisha." This project remained on the media market for the next nine years.
In 2005, when Kommersant came back to Ukraine, Doroshenko became the manager of the PR department and corporate advertisement. From 2006 until 2009, he worked on a group of projects known as Telekritika as a project development director.Telecritika has appointed a development director. Detector.media.5.12.2006 (in Ukr.)
From 2014 to 2017, Doroshenko was a host for talk radio station Radio Visti. He had a few radio shows including "Doroshenko's Cult", "Elementary", "War of the Worlds", and "The Cynics"."Radio Visti " launches the project "Cynics". Well well. 11.07.2014 (in Ukr.)
Since 2019, Doroshenko has worked as a columnist for Public Culture and as a curator of the research platform PinchukArtCentre.
Doroshenko writes art, culture, and society publications in Australia, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan, in both public and special editions. His articles are published in Vil`na Dumka, Fakty i Kommentarii, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Den, Finansovaya Ukraina, Publichnye liudi, Kapital, Ptyuch, and others.
Awards Laureate of the Azerbaijani Poet Prize of Mikayil Mushfig, 2015. Ukrainian art critic received a prestigious literary award. Lb.ua. 8.06.2015 (in Russian) Laureate of the Novomedia Awards 2015 (together with Oleksiy Zarakhovych) – for covering the topic of forgiveness on the Radio Vesti. Moral authorities of the profession. The Novomedia Awards were presented on November 11, 2015 (in Ukrainian)
Curator of projects
2001 – "Crucified Buddha", the first museum exhibition by Oleksandr Rojtburd in Museum of Cultural Heritage, Kyiv. Natalia Smirnova. Alexander Rojtburd's psychedelic intrusion into the tautological hallucination of Kyiv museum life. Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, October 26, 2001
2006 – "Pope and Ukraine", National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kyiv. A project dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ukraine with the presentation of the book "Pope and Ukraine". The author of the text is Oleksandr Krasyuk, and the artist is Yuriy Nikitin. The project was blessed by the Supreme Archbishop of the UGCC, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar. Valeria Radzievska. Konstantin Doroshenko, art critic: To feel like a master on your own land is to understand that you can handle challenges, to cope. Wordpress 21.03.2020 (in Ukr.)
2009 – "Genghis Khan of Ukraine", Kyiv, Dukat Gallery. Exhibition of portraits of Crimean Tatar khans, recreated by artist and icon painter Yuri Nikitin in collaboration with historian Oleksa Haivoronsky.Ute Kilter. Ukrainian Genghis Khan. Den. 14 July 2009
2007 – "Hilism", New York City, Ukrainian Institute. Personal exhibition of British-Australian artist Michel Murphenko.
2011 – "Fatal Strategies", Kyiv, 7th pavilion of Expocenter of Ukraine. The project by Ukrainian designer and artist Olga Gromova dedicated to the eponymous book by Jean Baudrillard, presentation of Ukrainian translation of which was a component of the multimedia performance. The scenography authorі are Georgy Senchenko in tandem with Arsen Savadov. In the final fashion show Olga Gromova's special collection of clothes created in the style of architectural bionics was burnt in front of the audience of 280 Kyiv and foreign VIPs. "Fatal Strategies" won the Grand Prix award of the International prize "Ukrainian Event Award" and first places in the categories "The Best Cultural Event" and "The Best Creative Concept of an Event." "Fatal Strategies" won the Grand Prix. Antiquary(Journal). 30 April 2012 (in Ukr.)
2012 – "Apocalypse and Renaissance in Chocolate House", Kyiv, . An exhibition within the framework of First Kyiv Biennale "ARSENALE". The idea is attributed to Oleg Kulik. Anastasia Shavlokhova was a co-curator. The organizer of the event was Mironova Gallery. At the exhibition, 43 artists from Ukraine and Russia presented a metaphor of modernity, an image of the protesting and confused world in a state of momenary calm. Andrey Monastyrsky, Arsen Savadov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Dmitriy Gutov, Illia Trushevsky, Zhanna Kadyrova, Olga Gromova, Valeriy Chtak, Andrey Kuzmin, Oksana Mas, and other artists were among the participants. After 15 days the exhibition was censored and closed.
2014 – "Fourth Front Door", Kyiv, National Museum Taras Shevchenko. Personal exhibition of an artist from Dnipropetrovsk, Nikita Shalenyi. The project was dedicated to historian Jacques Le Goff's "long Middle Ages" theory. Le Goff claimed that the Middle Ages had lasted until the 19th century. The "Fourth front door" represents the "Dark Ages" are still ongoing.
2018 – "Užupis: responsibility for freedom", Kyiv. The project is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuanian statehood and combines works by artists of different genres and generations from Lithuania and Ukraine.-for-freedom / Kyiv Art Week. Opening of the project "Užupis: responsibility for freedom". Chernozem 11.05.2018
2018 – "Roma – are us", curated by Kostiantyn Doroshenko and Kateryna Lypa in Kyiv City History Museum, artist - Oleksiy Zinchenko.Daria Badjor. Exhibition "Roma are us": a reason to talk 08.27.2018(in Ukr.)
2019 – "Human Condition" - Kyiv, Set Gallery, an exhibition by Swiss artist Marianne Hollenstein on the book Hannah Arendt and her opinion: " Everything a person knows or feels only makes sense to the extent that it can be expressed in language", with excerpts from the writer's letters to Martin Heidegger and memoirs of Holocaust./ opinions / deyaki-signali-nichogo-ne-povidomlyajut-krim-nayavnosti-svogo-dzherela-rozdumi-pro-vistavku -marianni-hollenshtajn-stan- ljudini.html Lesya Kulchynska. Some signals do not report anything except the presence of their source. Marianne Hollenstein, Human Condition. Korydor. 19.06.2019
2019 – "Exodus ", Montenegro, curator of the 14th season of the International Symposium of Contemporary Art Biruchiy 019. The concept is understood in its biblical meaning "Exodus" - the transition through the test to a dignified and harmonious existence.Open International Exhibition EXODUS. BIRUCHIY 019. MONTENEGRO. Analytics 17.08. 2019
2021 – "Time Not Lost", Prymorsk, -curator of the 15th season of the International Symposium of Contemporary Art - Biruchiy 021 which brought together 20 artists from different parts of Ukraine, Belarus, and Spain.ВIRUCHIY 021 or" Time not lost ". Mind.ua 30.08. 2021
2024— "The Sun Rises in the West", Kryvyi Rih", curator of the project dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the largest mining and metallurgical enterprise of Ukraine ArcelorMittal.Yulia Manukyan. "The Sun Rises in the West": what is the art exhibition in the Palace of Culture of Metallurgists in Kryvyi Rih. Suspilne Kultura. August 14, 2024(in Ukrainian)
2025 — "Me and the Ark, Me and the Great Flood" - International project by Ukrainian curator Kostyantyn Doroshenko with a modern interpretation of the philosophy of Nasimi, involving artists from Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Czech Republic in the YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku.“Me and the ark, me and the Great Flood” group exhibition launched at YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Azertag.az. 28.02.2025
Books "Kostyantyn Doroshenko". Cognitive demining. — Lviv: Publishing house of Anetta Antonenko. 2024 (in Ukrainian) Kostyantyn Doroshenko. According to Kyiv time. — Lviv: Publishing house of Anetta Antonenko. 2023. — 512 p. — (in Ukrainian) Konstantin Doroshenko. The End of the Late Iron Age (preface by Lyubko Deresh, Russian). K .: Laurus. 2015. The book includes texts published by the author during the twenty years of his work in journalism in various publications, as well as many archival photographs. Review by Karl Dolchenko.;Karl Dolchenko. 10 brightest Ukrainian editions of 2015. 1576. 28.05. 2015 review by Oleksiy Zarakhovych.Oleksiy Zarakhovych. Book of changes. Lb.ua. 3.12. 2015(in Ukr.)
Konstantin Doroshenko. The End of the Late Iron Age(second edition, foreword by Alexander Borovsky, Russian language). K .: Laurus. 2020. Review by Anna Kaluger. Criticism for lack of love and death.Anna Kaluger. Criticism for lack of love and death. Suspilne. media. 17.06.2021(in Ukr.) K. Doroshenko, T. Zhmurko, T. Kochubinska, K.Malykh and other. Parcommune. Place. Community. Phenomenon. Kyiv: Publish Pro Ltd., PinchukArtCentre, in Ukrainian: , 2019 Konstantin Doroshenko. Aria of Mary. K .: Laurus, 2021 Review by Olga Mikhailova. "Aria of Mary ": history in biography and vice versa.Olga Mikhailova. "Aria of Mary": a story in biography and vice versa. Kyivdaily .10.12. 2021 (in Ukr.)
Opinions and Estimates
Doroshenko emphasized that Ukrainian art has its own peculiarities and is very different from Russian art, which is "overgrown with cynicism". In a dialogue with Marat Gelman, he expressed thoughts about the exhibition by Illya Chichkan; New Psychodarwinism. The Ukrainian artist made it depicting famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery, depicting the main characters in the form of monkeys. Analyzing the artist's gesture, Doroshenko remarked: "Imperial totalitarian society puts art on a pedestal as something that rises above life and directs it… Psychodarwinism; a proposal to abandon elitism and hierarchies". Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Illya Chichkan. Zima magazine 17.02.2021 (in Rus.)