Denys
Pankratov

Ukrainian artist and curator Denys Pankratov (*1988) is the co-founder of the Method Fund (since 2015). Within the framework of this organisation he has engaged in various projects, seminars, exhibitions and publications, on the critical study and examination of Socialist Realism in Ukrainian art museums. In 2019, Denys Pankratov researched the history of Ukrainian national labor movements of the interwar period. Based on his research, he created the exhibitions Territory of Terror, From Basements to Basements and The Wounded and the Dead. In 2021, together with Victoria Dorr, he founded the private exhibition space Interroom Space, in which exhibitions and other semi-public events were held until 2024. W
ith the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, Denys Pankratov was engaged in volunteer activities, supporting internally displaced persons (IDPs) among other things. In May 2023, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he serves as a combat medic to this day.