Curator brutally beaten in Kiev - The Art Newspaper
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Vasyl Cherepanyn, a contemporary art curator and political activist, was brutally beaten by men in camouflage in Kiev last week.
The attack on 23 September took place near a subway station in Ukraine’s capital, it was reported on the website and Facebook page of the Visual Culture Research Center, the institution that Cherepanyn runs. The center posted photographs of Cherepanyn’s battered face and said that his injuries included fractured facial bones.
During the Euromaidan revolution that toppled Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych, Cherepanyn organised lectures for activists and created a support network to prevent the arrest of hospitalised protesters.
Cherepanyn, who is also a lecturer in cultural studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the editor of the Ukrainian edition of Political Critique magazine, is openly leftist, but he had previously defended the presence of far-right activists on Maidan Square, saying that their influence was outweighed by the power of the revolution.
He was one of the organisers of a conference that brought international intellectuals to Kiev in May, including the Polish film director Agnieszka Holland, the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and the Yale history professor Timothy Snyder.
The public beating resembled attacks on feminist activists in the summer of 2013, and has raised fears that right-wing forces may be gaining power in Kiev.
Ukraine’s culture ministry condemned the attack “as a manifestation of intolerance that contradicts the principles of democracy” and the culture minister Yevhen Nishchuk said in a statement on 30 September that “violence and intimidation must not be used as methods of influencing the cultural sphere”.
… mais ailleurs, j’imagine qu’il n’y a pas de problème.
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