Yuliaa Manukian

Yuliia Manukian is a Ukrainian curator at Urban Re-Public NGO, a cultural journalist, and co-founder of Culture of Southern Ukraine: COYC. Her work covers cultural heritage, contemporary art, and urbanism. She won the 2023 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent and the 2025 Women in Arts: The Resistance Award. In 2026 she is a resident at KORDON on Hiiumaa, Estonia, researching ties between Hiiumaa and the Ukrainian village of Zmiivka, and is working on a forthcoming book, The Ukrainian South: Urbi et Orbi.