Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta

Olesya Bohdanivna Ostrovska-Lyuta (; born 5 August 1978) is a Ukrainian cultural manager and curator of contemporary art. She is the director of the state enterprise Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex under the State Management of Affairs. In 2014, she served as the first Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine. In 2019, she was awarded the Women in Arts Award.

Ostrovska-Lyuta was also a member of numerous professional organisations. Among them are the board of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), the jury of the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award established by the Polish Institute in Ukraine, the jury of the Molodist International Film Festival, the boards of the "I3" award program, and the Dynamic Museum project at the Ukrainian Development Foundation.

Early life and education Ostrovska-Lyuta was born in Lviv, Ukraine, on 5 August 1978. She began her studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1994 and earned a Master of Arts in cultural studies in 2000. She speaks Ukrainian as her first tongue and speaks English, Polish, and Russian proficiently. In 2007, she managed the Pillar PR agency. From 2008 to 2014, she led various projects and programmes at the Rinat Akhmetov Charitable Foundation "Development of Ukraine," where she also served as project and programme manager. During her tenure, she launched the "I3" award programme to support Ukrainian artists, as well as the "Dynamic Museum" initiative aimed at modernising the country's museum landscape.

Between 2010 and 2014, Ostrovska-Lyuta chaired the board of directors of the SCCA. She also took part in several cultural juries, serving as a member of the Kazimir Malevich Prize jury in 2010 and 2012, and as head of the jury for the Ukrainian Panorama at the Molodist International Film Festival in 2011. Although Yevhen Nyshchuk was ultimately appointed to the role, he invited Ostrovska-Lyuta to serve as first deputy minister. She held this position from February to December 2014, stepping down following a change in government. During this time, she co-founded Culture2025, an independent platform dedicated to shaping a long-term national cultural strategy.

Ostrovska-Lyuta became a member of the board of the platform of initiatives "Warm City" in Ivano-Frankivsk from 2022.