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Welcome! I’m Lika Spivakovska—art gallerist, curator, and author. With over 1,000 art exhibitions organized across the globe, my journey through the art world has been rich with discovery and passion. I’ve critically reviewed more than 500 artworks in two published books, and my creative voice extends into literature with a fiction short story collection and an autobiographical novel. This site is your gateway to explore my curatorial vision, artistic insights, and personal storytelling. Join me on this creative journey—step inside and discover more!

Lika Spivakovska

 

 

SUPERWOMAN

14.11.2016

As you know, I have problems with self-identification. Every day I ask myself: “Who am I?”. And every time I get lost with the answer.
Recently, one girl asked: “Listen, I don’t follow you, I don’t know what you do?”.
I hung.
I held my book in my hands, but I am not a writer; I recently held my exhibition, but I'm not an artist. One foot in business, the other in art, and the third is the mother of a teenage girl and a baby boy. After thinking, I replied:
- I wish I knew.


So, in two seconds, all self-presentation courses collapsed.


While preparing for my SUPERWOMAN performance, I asked Catherina Smotrich what topic she would like me to cover. Do you know what she said?: "Any theme of yours will be great."

Here it helped.

For the next month, I puzzled over the presentation. I didn’t succeed, you remember, I don’t know how to choose, I take everything.
But then the time limit is 30 minutes.

Instead of preparing, I went to the sea.

All three days I looked at the monitor with the first slide “Enter a title” open. And I saw - seagulls, waves and white sand.

I returned rested and without slides, the day before the forum, not having the slightest idea what to talk about.

Inside there was only one conviction: “I will manage. Something. Somewhow. It will work."

And now, I'm already writing to Katya, I need 220 on stage and an XLR cord, and Vlada Buchko - let's do a performance?

And on Sunday, I go on stage and do something that I have never, NEVER done before: author's readings of a book to the accompaniment of keyboards.

I did not understand how I turned from a speaker of a business forum into a show, giving a concert. At the end of my speech, I said:

“Since childhood, I have dreamed of being on stage. And here I am".

Katya wrote yesterday that there were 600 people in the hall, and 1850 were online.
2450 people witnessed how I did something for the first time in my life and how, at the age of 36, I realized my childhood dream.

Did I plan it? Nope. Did I write in a notebook, hang illustrations on the refrigerator? No.
I have been saying for a long time: dreams always come true by themselves.
If you believe not in them, but in yourself.