Oxana Gourinovitch

Shortbio

  • 2005 Dipl.-Ing. Architektur an der Universität der Künste
  • seit 2005 Mitarbeit in diversen Berliner Architekturbüros
  • Mitglied ICOMOS Belarus seit 2014

Contact

Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät VI – Planen Bauen Umwelt
Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung
Fachgebiet Denkmalpflege
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2227 “Identität und Erbe”
D-10623 Berlin

Sitz: Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1 | BH-A 340
D-10587 Berlin

oxana.gourinovitch[at]tu-berlin.de

National Theater.
Soviet Postwar Modernist Architecture as an Actant of the Construction of National Identities in Soviet National Republics.

The PhD project is a critical examination of post-war architecture in the former Soviet republics of Lithuania and Belarus. In the period from 1955 to 1985, numerous buildings were erected in both republics, whose history and design cannot simply be explained by the term “Soviet post-war modernism”. Rather, the modernist buildings erected in the two Soviet republics are in each case an expression of local negotiation processes that were decisive for the construction of the national identities of the republics and still contribute today to the national self-definition of the states that have been sovereign since 1991. The dissertation project comprises, on the one hand, an inventory of the artifacts, their formal and material composition, as well as the social circumstances of their creation – and, on the other hand, an investigation of the madeness of the interpretations and meanings conveyed by them.

Selected Participations in Exhibitions

  • 2016 In the Belly of the Whale, Witte de Witt, Rotterdam
  • 2016 Harun Farockis Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit, Galerie Y, Minsk
  • 2016 Susanne Kriemann Pechblende, Schering Stiftung, Berlin
  • 2016 Versammlung. Belarussische Kunstbewegung, Stiftung Izolazia, Kiew
  • 2015 Alexander Komarov, Palast der Republik, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
  • 2014 Deprivation, Galerie Arsenal, Bialystok
  • 2012 Survival Kit, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Riga
  • 2011 Opening the Door? Belarussian Art Today, Zacheta Nationalgelerie, Warschau
  • 2010 Opening the Door? Belarussian Art Today, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Vilnius
  • 2010 Kleider machen Leute, Zentrum für Mode, Minsk
  • 2009 Belarussische Perspektiven, Galerie Arsenal, Bialystok
  • 2008 Urban Diary, Lasnia, Gdansk
  • 2003 “A Room with a View”, Architekturbiennale, Rotterdam

Publications

  • The Regional Open Space System and Hydroparks of Minsk in Belarus(mit Dr. Gert Gröning) in: Centropa Vol. IV, No. 2., New York 2004.