PARTICIPANTS
RESIDENTS OF "WE ARE NEVER ALONE"
LIVA DUDAREVA and EDUARDO CASSINALIVA DUDAREVA and EDUARDO CASSINA
Meet Liva DUDAREVA and Eduardo CASSINA from METASITU, curators of the residency.
METASITU is a practice, pendulating between Kyiv and Athens that establishes porous tribes. We usurp artistic roles (artists, curators, coordinators), using art as a strategy: a platform to support our research, a medium to reach different actors, and a tool to establish bridges across disciplines. This allows us to abuse urbanism discourses, develop new tools to empower individuals in the way they relate to the territory and challenge spatial power hegemonies.
Founded in 2014 by Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina, METASITU was born to enable cognitive emancipations around the (built) environment, by establishing new formats of knowledge exchange for understanding the urban condition today, for a queerer tomorrow.
METASITU is a practice, pendulating between Kyiv and Athens that establishes porous tribes. We usurp artistic roles (artists, curators, coordinators), using art as a strategy: a platform to support our research, a medium to reach different actors, and a tool to establish bridges across disciplines. This allows us to abuse urbanism discourses, develop new tools to empower individuals in the way they relate to the territory and challenge spatial power hegemonies.
Founded in 2014 by Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina, METASITU was born to enable cognitive emancipations around the (built) environment, by establishing new formats of knowledge exchange for understanding the urban condition today, for a queerer tomorrow.
DANA KOSMINA
Meet Dana Kosmina. She is an independent architect and artist. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Dana graduated from the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Faculty of Architecture in 2013. The same year Dana won a scholarship from the French Embassy to study at the National School of Architecture and Urban ENSAN in Nantes, France. From 2015 she is a Master of Architecture ENSAN.
Dana is a co-founder of the «Pylorama» open collective urban intervention. From 2016 she participates in the self-organized artistic initiative “DE NE DE”. In 2017 Dana joins the curatorial group “Hudrada”.
Her projects were presented at the group exhibitions at Mystetskiy Arsenal, M17 Contemporary Art Center, a parallel program Manifesta 10 and IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), DAS ESSZIMMER in Bonn.
Dana graduated from the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Faculty of Architecture in 2013. The same year Dana won a scholarship from the French Embassy to study at the National School of Architecture and Urban ENSAN in Nantes, France. From 2015 she is a Master of Architecture ENSAN.
Dana is a co-founder of the «Pylorama» open collective urban intervention. From 2016 she participates in the self-organized artistic initiative “DE NE DE”. In 2017 Dana joins the curatorial group “Hudrada”.
Her projects were presented at the group exhibitions at Mystetskiy Arsenal, M17 Contemporary Art Center, a parallel program Manifesta 10 and IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), DAS ESSZIMMER in Bonn.
DIBYENDU MRUGARAJ
Meet Dibyendu Mrugaraj, videographer.
He is an Urban Planner turned filmmaker.
In a decade long quest of exploration & self-learning, he has arrived at a place where he has finally started to understand Cinema.
Dibyendu worked for Gov of Bhutan for a while before finally diving into the world of Cinema. He says: ''I have worked with NGOs, corporates, private sponsors, and university students. From contemporary/commercial works to wild experiments, I’ve expanded my range and creative sensibilities with limited resources. In the process, I’ve earned a little money and a lot of goodwill. I'm in a business of buying and selling gestures with a currency unknown.''
He is an Urban Planner turned filmmaker.
In a decade long quest of exploration & self-learning, he has arrived at a place where he has finally started to understand Cinema.
Dibyendu worked for Gov of Bhutan for a while before finally diving into the world of Cinema. He says: ''I have worked with NGOs, corporates, private sponsors, and university students. From contemporary/commercial works to wild experiments, I’ve expanded my range and creative sensibilities with limited resources. In the process, I’ve earned a little money and a lot of goodwill. I'm in a business of buying and selling gestures with a currency unknown.''
OLYA ZOVSKAYA
Meet Olya Zovskaya. A graduate from the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts at the Department of Architecture and the ICA Moscow, she moved to Kyiv in 2015.
As an artist with an architectural background, she’s interested in the intersection of art and architecture. In her latest projects, she focuses on artistic research and on 'creation of situations' whether it is a participatory event or spatial installation.
Her texts on the problematic for the nowadays city topics were published in the architectural magazine Tatlin.
As an artist with an architectural background, she’s interested in the intersection of art and architecture. In her latest projects, she focuses on artistic research and on 'creation of situations' whether it is a participatory event or spatial installation.
Her texts on the problematic for the nowadays city topics were published in the architectural magazine Tatlin.
SASHA KURMAZ
Meet Sasha Kurmaz.
He is a post-conceptual multi-disciplinary artist with a graffiti background.
In his artistic practice, Sasha uses photography, urban intervention, and performative situations through which he analyzes the social and political interrelationships that address both poetic and political themes.
He is a post-conceptual multi-disciplinary artist with a graffiti background.
In his artistic practice, Sasha uses photography, urban intervention, and performative situations through which he analyzes the social and political interrelationships that address both poetic and political themes.
ALICE HADDAD
Meet Alice Haddad. She is a researcher particularly interested in the formats of artistic and spatial mediation.
Within the think- and do-tank Architecture Workroom Brussels, Alice works on cultural productions concerned with societal issues and spatial transformation. After studying architecture at ISACF La Cambre/ULB in Brussels, she initiated independent investigations—the research project "Dialogue Avec l'autre"—, collaborations—the curatorial and research project "Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match"—and enriched her experience through various positions she held within art/architecture institutions and organizations, a.o. Rotondes (LU), Volume Magazine (NL), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CA).
Within the think- and do-tank Architecture Workroom Brussels, Alice works on cultural productions concerned with societal issues and spatial transformation. After studying architecture at ISACF La Cambre/ULB in Brussels, she initiated independent investigations—the research project "Dialogue Avec l'autre"—, collaborations—the curatorial and research project "Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match"—and enriched her experience through various positions she held within art/architecture institutions and organizations, a.o. Rotondes (LU), Volume Magazine (NL), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CA).
SASHA POPRUGA
Meet Sasha Popruga, resident of We are never alone. The sphere of her interest in society.
Sasha uses various artistic media – text, photo, video, graphic design, installation and performance, – for reflection on social changes. Born in Kryviy Rih. Currently lives and works in Kyiv.
A 2014 graduate of the KNUCiM in Graphic Design and Advertising, Sasha worked as a Graphic and Web designer at Depositphotos, project "Mirrow" (Kyiv), was a mediator at PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv), Graphic designer at National Museum of Ukrainian History (Kyiv). Curated the Ambience Project (Kyiv). During the past few years she participates in different workshops and festivals in Ukraine and Georgia:
Construction Festival (Dnipro), workshop of the German performative group “Labor Theater”;
art/music residence Aqtushetii (Omalo, Georgia);
audiovisual Brave! Factory Festival (Kyiv), as part of the IWIK Studio art group.
Jasmin Schaitl workshop at the Zabih Performance Festival (Lviv).
Sasha uses various artistic media – text, photo, video, graphic design, installation and performance, – for reflection on social changes. Born in Kryviy Rih. Currently lives and works in Kyiv.
A 2014 graduate of the KNUCiM in Graphic Design and Advertising, Sasha worked as a Graphic and Web designer at Depositphotos, project "Mirrow" (Kyiv), was a mediator at PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv), Graphic designer at National Museum of Ukrainian History (Kyiv). Curated the Ambience Project (Kyiv). During the past few years she participates in different workshops and festivals in Ukraine and Georgia:
Construction Festival (Dnipro), workshop of the German performative group “Labor Theater”;
art/music residence Aqtushetii (Omalo, Georgia);
audiovisual Brave! Factory Festival (Kyiv), as part of the IWIK Studio art group.
Jasmin Schaitl workshop at the Zabih Performance Festival (Lviv).
ILLIA YAKOVENKO
Meet Illia Yakovenko, a precarious cultural worker, a self-proclaimed artist, curator, poet and spectator, an unrecognized cultural diplomat.
In his artistic practice, Illia reexamines the historical, social, economic and political conditions of art production and the influence that state cultural policies have on it.
He deals with issues related to history, memory, culture, identity, and their byproducts such as exclusion, othering, marginalization, and stigmatization through collective and participatory production of art.
He is a member of the Cooperative for Creative Research Krasnaya Shpana and تعاونية artistic cooperative. Lives and works between Kiev and Kyiv.
In his artistic practice, Illia reexamines the historical, social, economic and political conditions of art production and the influence that state cultural policies have on it.
He deals with issues related to history, memory, culture, identity, and their byproducts such as exclusion, othering, marginalization, and stigmatization through collective and participatory production of art.
He is a member of the Cooperative for Creative Research Krasnaya Shpana and تعاونية artistic cooperative. Lives and works between Kiev and Kyiv.
TEREZA YAKOVYNA
Meet Tereza Yakovyna, a stage & set designer, beginning curator, and interdisciplinary arts activist.
For the past couple of years, Tereza worked mostly in Berlin. In 2018 she organized a DECOMMUNI_ATION residency project in Berlin and Kyiv. In 2017 gave two performances at Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz on the topic of gentrification. The same year she co-grounded an artist collective "Колектив" that developed a desktop documentary “Independence Day” working with live streams shot during one state holiday in Ukraine.
Born in Ivano-Frankivsk, but never lived there, she’s looking forward to finding a personal narrative alongside with other discourses held at the residency.
For the past couple of years, Tereza worked mostly in Berlin. In 2018 she organized a DECOMMUNI_ATION residency project in Berlin and Kyiv. In 2017 gave two performances at Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz on the topic of gentrification. The same year she co-grounded an artist collective "Колектив" that developed a desktop documentary “Independence Day” working with live streams shot during one state holiday in Ukraine.
Born in Ivano-Frankivsk, but never lived there, she’s looking forward to finding a personal narrative alongside with other discourses held at the residency.
TIJANA CVETKOVIC
Meet Tijana Cvetković, visual artist based in Belgrade.
She strives to create a specific style finding themes and problems within experiences acquired in different situations, to morally and ethically build a positive stance/system which in its structure does not differ much from the ways that she perceives life.
She says: ''Within that system, I go through different phases. I allow circumstances/chance to affect me, trying to be open for new contents, changes and to resolve the complicated system of living and at the same time through practice and reflection on the elements that it is constructed of, create meaning.''
She strives to create a specific style finding themes and problems within experiences acquired in different situations, to morally and ethically build a positive stance/system which in its structure does not differ much from the ways that she perceives life.
She says: ''Within that system, I go through different phases. I allow circumstances/chance to affect me, trying to be open for new contents, changes and to resolve the complicated system of living and at the same time through practice and reflection on the elements that it is constructed of, create meaning.''
KLODIANA MILLONA AND YUAN CHUN LIU
Meet Klodiana Millona and Yuan Chun Liu duo who are both spatial designers and researchers that work collaboratively under "Millonaliu".
Their practice is positioned both within architecture and its refusal. Jointly and individually they cultivate an activist design practice nurtured in research and its translation in spatial products within the cultural and political context where it is situated.
"Millonaliu" research, write, build, curate and compose. Together with several artists and architects, they co-founded collective with whom they work periodically on self-initiated projects.
Their practice is positioned both within architecture and its refusal. Jointly and individually they cultivate an activist design practice nurtured in research and its translation in spatial products within the cultural and political context where it is situated.
"Millonaliu" research, write, build, curate and compose. Together with several artists and architects, they co-founded collective with whom they work periodically on self-initiated projects.
ZUZA GOLINSKA
Meet Zuza Golińska. She is a visual artist living and working in Warsaw, Poland.
Zuza creates installations and site-specific projects that often explore concepts of social structure and space. A 2015 graduate of the Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She wrote her master’s thesis under the supervision of Anda Rottenberg. Her installation Run-Up was presented in Dom Słowa Polskiego in Warsaw, Heiligenkreuzerhof in Vienna and Národni Galerie in Prague.
In 2014 she was shortlisted for the Hestia Artistic Journey Award. In the same year, she won the first prize at the Gdańsk Art Biennale. A recipient of the scholarships by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2014) and of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2016). In 2015 she was nominated for the StartPoint Prize, a European award for young artists.
Zuza presented her works in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery, Delfina Foundation, National Gallery in Prague and many others. In the years 2015–2018 Golińska worked as a Teaching Assistant and Junior Lecturer in the Studio of Spatial Activities led by Mirosław Bałka. In 2018, she won the ArtePrize awarded by the ArteVue and Delfina Foundation.
Zuza creates installations and site-specific projects that often explore concepts of social structure and space. A 2015 graduate of the Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She wrote her master’s thesis under the supervision of Anda Rottenberg. Her installation Run-Up was presented in Dom Słowa Polskiego in Warsaw, Heiligenkreuzerhof in Vienna and Národni Galerie in Prague.
In 2014 she was shortlisted for the Hestia Artistic Journey Award. In the same year, she won the first prize at the Gdańsk Art Biennale. A recipient of the scholarships by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2014) and of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2016). In 2015 she was nominated for the StartPoint Prize, a European award for young artists.
Zuza presented her works in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery, Delfina Foundation, National Gallery in Prague and many others. In the years 2015–2018 Golińska worked as a Teaching Assistant and Junior Lecturer in the Studio of Spatial Activities led by Mirosław Bałka. In 2018, she won the ArtePrize awarded by the ArteVue and Delfina Foundation.
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