Olena Martynchuk is a cultural anthropologist and curator. Her doctoral research is a methodological case study of Ukrainian youth who moved to Poznań after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The project focuses on experimental and participatory ethnographic practices and examines the sensory experiences of young people in relation to home spaces, the city, and digital environments. In this work, the senses play a double role: they are both a method and an object of anthropological analysis.

Martynchuk’s research is at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art. She is interested in sensory ethnography, migration, art-based research, vernacular photography, documentary film, and urban anthropology. She explores how anthropological knowledge can reach beyond academic settings through formats such as exhibitions, zines, artist books, and performative actions.

Martynchuk is a member of the Polish Ethnological Society and the research association After Silence (Lviv, Ukraine), which focuses on memory, trauma, archives, and artistic practices.

For further details, please visit her ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olena_Martynchuk2