| Daria Kravchuk is an Amsterdam-based curator, museologist, researcher, and art journalist whose work explores ecological responsibility, more-than-human perspectives, and the role of cultural institutions in responding to planetary challenges. Her curatorial practice is grounded in the understanding of exhibitions as constellational environments that bring together artworks, artefacts, people, technologies, landscapes, and living systems to generate new relationships, narratives, and ways of perceiving the world. Working across contemporary art, museum collections, public space, and digital environments, she develops projects that are context-sensitive, socially engaged, and rooted in local conditions. At the centre of her research and curatorial work is an interest in more-than-human worlds—both biological and technological ones. She investigates how cultural institutions can engage with plants, animals, fungi, ecosystems, and other forms of non-human life as active participants in cultural production, while also exploring the growing agency of artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and networked technologies. This dual interest informs both her academic research and professional practice. Her work with living more-than-human worlds is rooted in ecological thought, museum studies, and environmental humanities, while her long-term collaboration with .ART Registry has enabled her to explore the cultural implications of digital technologies, online communities, AI, and emerging forms of technological agency. Together, these strands form an ongoing investigation into how cultural institutions can create new forms of dialogue and coexistence between human, biological, and technological actors. Daria has over a decade of international experience working with artists, galleries, museums, art fairs, and cultural organisations. Her projects range across diverse environments—from astrophysical observatories and museums to public spaces, landscapes, and virtual platforms—where context itself becomes an active curatorial medium. Daria's projects and research have been supported by international organisations and funding bodies, including the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe-Institut, Hungarian Embassy, University College London, Queen Mary University of London, The Leverhulme Trust, Polish Cultural Centre, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, W.E. Janssen Foundation, Artists-at-Risk, Culture Moves Europe, and The Bartlett School of Architecture. She has participated in curatorial residencies at Darb 1718 (Cairo, 2023), Ria Keburia Artist-in-Residence (Georgia, 2022), and KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna, 2013). In addition to her curatorial practice, Daria writes on contemporary art, architecture, technology, and culture for STIRworld and the blog of .ART. Daria holds an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her thesis, Museums as More-than-Human Environments in the Capitalocene, examined how contemporary art museums can reimagine sustainability through more-than-human perspectives in curatorial, institutional, and governance practices. Her ongoing research continues to investigate how cultural institutions can become sites of coexistence, care, and knowledge production across biological and technological forms of life. |