Kostiantyn Doroshenko

With the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022, the publicist's has aimed at dispelling fakes and condemning modern neo-Nazism: "Russian world is not just a heresy. It is a neo-Nazi ideology: it has a specific totalitarian leader, it incorporates and uses chauvinistic, fascist, racist, xenophobic ideas in its rhetoric and politics. Its goal is the same as that of Hitler's National Socialist teachings… This ideology must be condemned by the world community and legally banned as neo-Nazi, totalitarian and extremist."

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, the Republic of Belarus and Spain.

Since 2019, Doroshenko has worked as a columnist for "Public: Culture" (Ukraine) and as a curator of the research platform PinchukArtCentre.

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.

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.

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.

2018 - "Roma - are us", curated by Kostiantyn Doroshenko and Kateryna Lypa in Kyiv City History Museum, artist - Oleksiy Zinchenko. The main idea of the project: without awareness of the importance of the Other, self-identification of Ukrainians is impossible.

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".

2014 - "Fourth Front Door", Kyiv, National Museum Taras Shevchenko. Personal exhibition of Dnipropetrovsk artist Nikita Shalenyi. This project was dedicated to historian's Jacques Le Goff's "long Middle Ages" theory. If this historian claimed Middle Ages had lasted until the 19th century, the "Fourth front door" shows that the "Dark Time" is still ongoing.

2012 - "Apocalypse and Renaissance in Chocolate House", Kyiv, Chocolate House. An exhibition within the framework of First Kyiv Biennale "ARSENALE". Idea - Oleg Kulik, co-curator - Anastasia Shavlokhova, organizer - Mironova Gallery. At that exhibition 43 artists from Ukraine and Russia presented the metaphor of modern times, the image of the protesting and confused world in a state of an occasional moment of rest. 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.

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. Scenography author - Georgy Senchenko, in tandem with Arsen Savadov. In the final of fashion show Olga Gromova's special collection of clothes created in style of architectural bionics was burnt in front of the audience of 280 Kyiv and foreign VIP. "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."

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.

2007 - "Hilism", New York City, Ukrainian Institute. Personal exhibition of British-Australian artist Michel Murphenko.

2006 - "Pope and Ukraine", National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kiyv. 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, the artist is Yuriy Nikitin. The project was blessed by the Supreme Archbishop of the UGCC, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.

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.

KP Media owner Jed Sunden in 2001 invited Doroshenko to create a new Kyiv magazine called "Afisha." This project remained on the media market for the next nine years.

2001 - "Crucified Buddha", the first museum exhibition by Oleksandr Rojtburd in Museum of Cultural Heritage, Kiyv.

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 political censorship pressure.

From 1995 to 1998, Doroshenko worked in the first Ukrainian lifestyle magazine LOOKS as an editor of the "Society" and "People" departments.

Doroshenko worked at the Museum of History of Kyiv City from 1994 to 1995, where he managed the "Ukrainian diaspora history" department.

Doroshenko was born in Kiev. 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.

Kostіantyn Doroshenko, Kostyantyn (Ukrainian: Костянтин Володимирович Дорошенко; born 29 October 1972, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukraine Art critic, publicist, contemporary art curator, media manager, radio host. Doroshenko is well known as a cultural and social journalist published in Ukraine, Australia, Azerbaijan, Italy, etc.; as a radio host of talk radio station Radio Visti, columnist of "Public: Culture" (Ukraine); as a curator of the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre (since 2019); and as the author of the books 'The End of the Late Iron Age' and 'Aria of Mary'. He is one of the most influential Ukrainian art curators and art critics of Ukraine according to Art Ukraine magazine and Focus magazine. He is also a member of the World League "Mind without drugs" (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). On 1 April 2017, K. Doroshenko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic Užupis among art critics of the world.