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Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta

General director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Arts and Culture Museum Complex. Born in 1978 in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1994 she entered the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where she received her master’s degree in Culturology in 2000. Olesya worked at the International Renaissance Foundation; in 1999–2007 she was an assistant director of the Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art and manager of projects and programmes at the Development of Ukraine Non-Profit Foundation from 2008 to 2014. During 2014 she held the position of First Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine. In 2016 she worked as a deputy director of the Pro.Mova Analytics Centre. Since July 2016 Olesya has been a general director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Arts and Culture Museum Complex.