Max Weber Fellow
Department of History
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
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Polina Baitsym is an art historian and curator specializing in the history of Ukrainian Soviet visual arts. She is a co-author of two books on Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics — Art for Architecture. Ukraine. Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990 (Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2020) and The Chips: Ukrainian Naïve Mosaics, 1950-1990 (Kharkiv: ist publishing, 2024). Recently, Baitsym co-curated a Ukrainian contribution to an exhibition, Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces (2023) at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany, and co-edited a special issue for Konstnärernas Riksorganisation (The Artists’ Association of Sweden). Currently, she is working on her manuscript on Ukrainian Soviet art historiography.