Diana Klochko

Art critic, lecturer, essayist

Diana Klochko is an art historian, publisher, and curator, from the Rivne region in Ukraine. She graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1991 with a degree in art history and theory before continuing her postgraduate studies at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. She began her career teaching at art schools and working as a correspondent for the newspaper Day, while also contributing to magazines such as ARTLine and Knizhnik-review. She has served as a juror for literary competitions including Book of the Year and Coronation of the Word, and in 2011 she co-founded the Metaphora Translation Award alongside Igor Pomerantsev. Her career in publishing includes managing art series at Calvary and Duliby, leading the Grani-T publishing house from 2006 to 2010, and later working within the Strategic Development Department and Cultural and Artistic Center at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She has authored and delivered fifteen lecture courses on art history. She also co-curated the landmark 2017 exhibition The Aeneid Project: A Visual History of the Legendary Poem, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. She co-founded the Ukrainian Visual Book Platform with Pavlo Gudimov. She is a member of PEN Ukraine.