Cherepanyn is a curator and researcher, working in and between the fields of art, political philosophy, and grassroots movements. He is the co-founder and head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), a platform to promote collaboration among academic, artistic, and activist communities. His exhibitions, research, and initiatives have focused on the East European region in its post-Soviet condition, embracing a holistic approach of situating art and its publics as well as artistic programming in the current transformation of Europe.
Vasyl Cherepanyn was born in 1980 in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine, and currently lives in Berlin. Cherepanyn holds a PhD in philosophy and has lectured at various universities, including the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Political Critique in Warsaw, University of Helsinki, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), and the Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald of the Greifswald University. In 2008, he co-founded the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), the institutional organizer of the Kyiv Biennial and a founding member of the East Europe Biennial Alliance (EEBA).