Post by Scott Jacobsen

Part 2 of 2 Olga Sagaidak is a Ukrainian cultural manager, curator, and art historian who chairs the board of the Coalition of Cultural Actors of Ukraine and co-founded Dofa.fund. Trained in art history, she also co-founded the Korners auction house, where she worked in the art and antiquities market before reorienting toward cultural activism after 2014. Sagaidak served on, and later chaired, the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Institute from 2019 to 2022. In 2022, she was appointed the Ukrainian Institute’s representative in France and helped launch Printemps Ukrainien, a cultural diplomacy initiative presenting contemporary Ukrainian culture to French and European audiences abroad. Scott Douglas Jacobsen interviews Olga about the Coalition of Cultural Actors' revival after Russia's full-scale invasion. She explains its watchdog role in reforming Ukraine's cultural institutions, improving worker conditions, and replacing Soviet-era evacuation protocols. Through RES-POL, experts documented millions of museum objects in occupied or frontline areas, cultural losses exceeding €4 billion, and urgent needs for shelters, legal reforms, and scenario planning to protect heritage as war makes everything possible for Ukraine's museums, libraries, communities. https://lnkd.in/ejkTwx7V