Lucy Nychai (Liudmyla Nychai) is a Ukrainian art practitioner, researcher, and curator of art mobility programmes. She is the co-founder and project coordinator of the NGO “Congress of Cultural Activists.” Since 2017, she has been curating international programmes for NVAIR, an international residency for emerging artists. She serves as the National Facilitator for the Active Citizens programme with the British Council in Ukraine and is an associate artist at D6: Culture in Transit in Newcastle, UK, from 2023 to 2026.
From 2019 to 2021, she worked as a facilitator and researcher in the so-called ‘grey zone’ on the project “Support for the Development of Marketing Strategies and City Branding for 20 Target Communities in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions,” commissioned by the UN Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Programme in Ukraine.
In 2022-2024, she curated an art residency programme and exhibitions for (Re)Grounding, a partnership between the Kyiv-based organisation IZOLYATSIA, D6: Culture in Transit, and D6:EU. This project began as part of the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture, jointly devised by the British Council and the Ukrainian Institute, focusing on climate and social justice in post-industrial areas and communities in Ukraine, the North-East of England, and Cyprus.
Previously, she spent 12 years as an art lecturer, holding a Master’s degree in Fine Arts and Art Education. She was also the co-founder and curator of the private gallery “Art Space 365” in Kyiv.
For the last few years, due the war, she’s been living in the UK, and works between Ukraine, EU and UK with an international projects.

Participant in: August 2023 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding