Jura Golik
Jura Golik is an artist and curator from Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2020 – 2024 he studied History and Theory of Arts at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
From 2019 to 2021 he worked as an art-manager at the Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv. In August 2021 launched an independent project PATIO, drawing inspiration from creative local youth in Kharkiv. In September 2022 moved to Lviv and was a resident at Jam Factory art-centre via the program “Navigations”.
In 2024 with other Ukrainian colleagues co-founded artist-run space ZIEGEL in Graz, where they are holding exhibitions, events and atelier space. In 2025 Jura moved to Vienna to receive Masters in Expanded Museum Studies at die Angewandte.
Now based in Vienna (Austria)
Jura exhibited in Ukraine, Poland, France, Italy, Austria and Sweden.
I am an artist, curator, and researcher from Kharkiv, Ukraine, currently based in Vienna, Austria.
My practice brings together artistic production and curatorial research as interconnected methods. Working with photography and its expanded forms — including combinations with textile, concrete or ceramic surfaces — I explore images as part of spatial and material structures. My work focuses on migration, displacement, processes of commemoration, and historical violence, exploring how images are carried, stored, translated, and reassembled across different contexts. I am particularly interested in how photographic images shift when they become objects, surfaces, or environments, and how these transformations shape collective memory.
As a curator and researcher, I engage with Ukrainian art since Independence and the Kharkiv School of Photography. This research forms a foundation for my artistic work, linking exhibition-making, archival thinking, and image production.
“I am particularly interested in how photographic images shift when they become objects, surfaces, or environments, and how these transformations shape collective memory.”
