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

“Fermenting tomatoes in August means believing that January will come and you’ll eat them.” Anna Voloshyna on her new book, Ukraïne, and Ukrainian cuisine in America — interview
Anna Voloshyna is 36. She is a chef, cookbook author, and advocate for Ukrainian cuisine in America. The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about her, and her...
It started with dreams in a Lviv kitchen. Then came Mriya, which never flew over Venice. In the end, the voices of Ukrainians at war echoed at the Biennale. The story of Open Group
You may have seen the video : Ukrainians who survived shelling recreate the sounds of war using their own voices—the whistle of a missile, gunfire, explosions—and invite...
“Someone has to make a photographer famous”: Serhii Melnychenko on MYPH, the war, and the international art market
Serhii Melnychenko began taking photographs in 2009, when he was 18. Just a few years later, his humorous photo series “ Schwarzenegger is my idol ” made him popular online,...
Assouline releases a book on Ukrainian naive art, exploring works discovered in attics and brought to international acclaim. Its story is told by curator Lidia Lykhach
The Ukrainian brand GUNIA Project and international publishing house Assouline have announced Naïve My Love: Ukrainian Art of the 20th Century, a new title presenting ...
Niya Nickel spent years looking for a way to help her daughter with epilepsy and found one. Now she is changing the treatment rules for this disease in Ukraine. Her story
At 28, Kyiv native Niya Nickel gave birth to her daughter Eva, who has a rare genetic mutation known as J amuar syndrome . Because of it, the girl lives with severe epilepsy,...
US-born artist Maya Hayuk always maintained a deep bond with Ukraine. After 2022, she reconnected with her homeland on a whole new level. Here is her story
In 1944, Maya Hayuk’s parents fled war-torn Ukraine. Eight decades later, their American-born daughter returned to her ancestral homeland by choice. Over the years, she...
Russians are abducting Ukrainian children. Director Tetiana Khodakivska and three EU countries tell the story of this war crime in a film — interview
Tetiana Khodakivska is a Ukrainian film director and a member of the European Film Academy and the Ukrainian Film Academy. One of her major works is the documentary ...
“The only thing I want is to live to see the moment when Russia is held accountable for its crimes.” A major interview with illustrator Serhiy Maidukov
Black-and-white silhouettes, battered high-rises, trenches, drones, and people quietly living amidst the war. The illustrations of Sergiy Maidukov are easily recognizable:...