A vintage hat, narrow glasses, a black dress, and long lace gloves—41-year-old Ukrainian artist Nina Murashkina looks as though she has stepped out of a scene from an old...
Roksana Rublevska
Author
I was born in Uman and moved to Kyiv when I was 14. My father worked in antique appraisal and inspired my love for art. I earned a degree in art history and later worked as a TV editor and screenwriter at Film.ua and Star Media. I have been in cultural journalism since 2015, writing for Forbes, Liga.net, Detector Media, Elle Ukraine, L’Officiel, Vogue, Novoe Vremya, and Babel. I was the editor of Art-Kursiv, an academic journal on contemporary art for three years. I also co-authored the art books 25 Years of Presence and 30 Years of Presence for ArtHuss and worked on artwork attribution for the Goldens auction house.
In 2019 and 2020, I received six journalism awards from PRESSZVANIE and Novamedia. I also managed the PR campaign for Bad Roads, a film by Natalka Vorozhbyt that won at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
After the full-scale war began, I was forced to leave Ukraine and settled in Barcelona, Spain. I learned Spanish and completed a master’s degree in marketing, PR, and communications at UCJC University. Now, I write about Ukrainians who have pursued their dreams abroad.
Publications of the author
Jewelry designer Inesa Kovalova is originally from Kramatorsk and is 38 years old. Trained as an architect, she started out as a sales assistant and designer at a jewelry...
Vladyslav Perstok is a 38-year-old economist and father of three. He graduated from Donetsk National University and the University of Westminster in London. He worked at ...
Yurko Gutsulyak, graphic designer, creative director, and co-founder of Gutsulyak.Studio has been developing the business with his sister, Zoryana Gutsulyak, since 2005....
In 2016, Maria Yakush, the owner of a restaurant consulting agency, needed tableware for a client project but could not find anything that matched her concept. Then she...
Elena Belova, 54, was the first to launch a perfumery school in Ukraine, following the success of her niche brand, Parfum Facteur . Her life has been defined by dramatic...
Chernivtsi natives Iryna Kotapska and Liudmyla Lipinska are designers, sisters, and business partners. In 2003, 22-year-old Iryna founded the bridal dress brand Kotapska ,...
Kyiv native Anna Andriienko studied Business Law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and initially planned to build a legal career. After returning to Kyiv in 2015, she...
