Dr. Roksolyana Holovata

heahistory editor of Lviv Interactive platform (2022-2024), head of Lviv Interactive platform (2024-present), researcher

A historian and art historian. In 2025, she received her PhD in Art History from the University of Wrocław (Institute of Art History). In 2018-2022, she studied simultaneously at the doctoral program of the University of Wrocław and the postgraduate program of the Ukrainian Catholic University. She received her master's (2017) and bachelor's (2015) degrees in history from the Ukrainian Catholic University.

In 2019-2021, she worked with the Lviv Interactive platform as an author of research on the Regional Exhibition and the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv, and participated in LIA seminars. In January 2022, she joined the team of the Center for Urban History as the editor of the historical part of Interactive Lviv, and since July 2024 she has been leading the platform.

Her research interests include historical urbanism, the perception of urban space, Lviv's artistic networks and their manifestations in the city's public space in the long nineteenth century, and the history of the conservative movement in interwar Poland. At the Center for Urban History, she is a member of the research group that studies urban heritage. As part of Lviv Interactive, she published a history of the General Regional Exhibition of Galicia: how it was prepared and what the visitors' impressions were, as well as material about the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv before 1914. At the same time, she is developing her own research project on the history of Lviv's suburbs and green spaces, which is based on her dissertation.

In 2015-2016, she studied at the Institute of Art History at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin on a scholarship from the European Federation of Catholic Universities. In 2017-2018, she was a participant of the scholarship program for young scientists of the Government of the Republic of Poland. Her dissertation research was supported by the Visegrád Fund and the Polish National Committee for UNESCO. In 2023, she was an intern at the C2DH of the University of Luxembourg, and in 2023-2024 she was a scholarship holder and participant of the Getty Foundation Summer School in Digital Art History in Venice (Duke University/Venice International University).