May 28, 2024:
Opening of the conference
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Dr. Kateryna Rietz-Rakul, Director, Ukrainian Institute in Germany
- Małgorzata Ławrowska - von Thadden, CEO, Foundation OBMIN
- Dr. Tobias Lindner, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
- Anastasia Bondar, Vice Minister, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, Ukraine
- Dr. Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland (online video)
Input: Working Groups of Ukrainian Museums
- Milena Chorna, Analyst, State Agency of Ukraine on Arts and Artistic Education
- Anastasiia Haidukevych-Kachuro
Panel 1: The mission of museums in municipal and regional reconstruction
- Oleksandr Kostin, Acting Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kharkiv Region Military Administration, Kharkiv
- Olga Pischel, Member of the Board, KUL’TURA e.V., Berlin
- Andrea Jürges, Vice Director, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt/Main
- Dr. Johannes Nathan, Ukraine Art Aid Center, Berlin
Moderator: Kaja Puto, Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw
Panel 2: The mission of museums to strengthen (civil) society
- Yuliia Vaganova, Acting Director of the Khanenko Museum, Kyiv
- Charlotte Knaup, Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- Dr. Bohdan Tyholoz, Director of Lviv National Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko
- Dr. Elżbieta Kwiecińska, Faculty of History, Warsaw University
Moderator: Anastasiia Manuliak, Ukrainian Institute
Panel 3: Ukrainian culture as part of Europe's common cultural heritage
- Anastasia Bondar, Vice Minister, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, Ukraine
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin
- Dr. Martin Hoernes, Secretary General, Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, Berlin
- Dr. Beate Störtkuhl, Coordinator Science and History of Arts, Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe, Oldenburg
- Dr. Piotr Rypson, Director, Department of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Moderator: Kseniia Bilash, Art Critic, Culture Editor at LB.ua
May 29, 2024:
Opening:
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Weber, Director, Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe, Oldenburg
- Rafał Rogulski, Director, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Warsaw
Panel 4: Transnational Perspectives on Heritage and Memory in Eastern Europe
- Varvara Keidan Shavrova, Researcher and Curator, Royal College of Art, London
- Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov, Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
- Wojciech Konończuk, Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
- Dr. Żanna Komar, Institute of European Heritage, International Cultural Centre, Krakow
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Igor Kąkolewski, Center for Historical Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Signing of the agreement: between the German War Graves Commission and the State Archival Service of Ukraine
For the German War Graves Commission:
- Detlef Fritzsch, Vice President
For the State Archival Service of Ukraine:
- Anatolii Chromov, Director
- Tetiana Shevchenko, First Deputy
Moderator: Dr. Sandra Dahlke, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe
Presentation of the Study “Beyond Greener Grass: Strategies Towards Ukrainian Transnational Cultural Reconstruction”
- Simon Dove, Curator and Educator, CEC ArtsLink, New York
- Olena Syrbu, Senior Analyst, Cedos, Kyiv
- Mariia Volchonok, Program Manager, Visual Arts Department, Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv
Development of own proposals for the necessary contribution of Ukrainian cultural institutions to the reconstruction of Ukraine: Presentation of the results and discussion
Moderators: Milena Chorna and Anastasiia Haidukevych-Kachuro
Conclusion of the conference
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin
- Dr. Kateryna Rietz-Rakul, Director, Ukrainian Institute in Germany, Berlin
- Małgorzata Ławrowska - von Thadden, CEO, OBMIN Foundation, Warsaw
Thank you to all our guests, some of whom traveled over 2000 kilometers to participate in the conference. This truly demonstrates how important this topic is to our colleagues and how strongly museums want to actively participate in Ukraine's recovery and civil society.
The OBIMIN Foundation continues its active work in fulfilling these important tasks. We are open to collaboration and joint efforts with anyone willing to join this process to improve Ukraine's future.