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Olena Honcharuk

Olena Honcharuk is a cultural manager, cultural critic, museologist, and copywriter.


Olena Honcharuk was born in Kremenchuk, grew up in Kryvyi Rih, and is based in Kyiv now. She gained her master's degree in cultural studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.


Currently, she is the director of the Film Museum at Dovzhenko Center in Kyiv and the competition winner for the Dovzhenko Center's director general position. She has worked at Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and the State Fund of Ukrainian Films since 2016. Together with the Dovzhenko Center team, she contributed to the opening of the Film Museum, and the creation of the exhibitions VUFKU. Lost & Found and Flights in Dreams and Reality, and the festival of silent films and contemporary music Mute Nights, as well as the social resistance movement against the so-called "reorganisation" of Dovzhenko Center.