Visual Culture Research Center

Works of artists Oleksandr Volodarsky, Nikita Kadan, Lada Nakonechnaya, Mykola Ridny, Volodymyr Say and others were presented there.

On February 23, 2012, by the decision of the Academic Council of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the operation of the NaUKMA Visual Culture Research Center was suspended.

[12] The center was defended by David Eliott, curator of the First Kyiv Biennale, former President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski,[13] philosophers Slavoj Žižek,[14] Judith Butler and Jacques Rancière, translator Andrii Riepa,[10] artist Oleksandr Volodarsky.

On March 29, 2012, by the decision of the Academic Council of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Visual Culture Research Center was liquidated, in particular, among the main reasons for the closure of the center was the following: "deliberate damage to the reputation of NaUKMA", "substitution of academic criteria by ideological and political", "intolerance of different opinions and views", "public discrediting of colleagues", "systematic misleading of the NaUKMA administration".

The opening and presentation of the new program of the center was announced on April 26 in the premises of the Zhovten (October) cinema within the framework of the Seventh Berlin Biennale.