Vita Since October 1, 2025 Doctoral candidate at ZZF Potsdam in Department I Alisa Lozhkina is a Ukrainian art historian and curator currently based in Los Gatos, California. She was the editor-in-chief of ArtUkraine magazine and served as deputy director and chief curator of Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Ukrainian and international museums and is the author of several books. In 2024, her book Art in Ukraine was published by Thames & Hudson as part of the iconic World of Art series. Alisa is also the Ukrainian translator of the ancient Indian sacred text Devi Mahatmya, which explores the feminine divine. She is a practicing textile artist whose quilts and dolls function as living icons - vessels for memory, spirit, and myth. Her creative practice moves between scholarship and shamanic imagination, between archives and orchards, stitching together worlds that modern culture has torn apart. Aktuelle Projekte From Iron Curtain to Inner Vision: Psychedelics, Spiritual Awakening, and Political Imagination in Ukrainian Art after the Fall of CommunismPhD projectThis project explores the intersections of art, spirituality, and altered states of consciousness in post-Soviet Ukraine. It examines how the discovery and use of psychedelic substances among artists of the Ukrainian New Wave in the 1990s shaped a unique aesthetic of transgression, introspection, and spiritual experimentation. » zum Projekt
