Tutor of the residency, researcher, curator and artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She got her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan. Her work addresses the topics of gender, labor, race, memory, and war. She curated exhibitions at the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv. She is a co-editor of the book “The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism” (2019) and an editor of the upcoming book “Black Lives Matter Voices”. She is a co-curator of the Ukrainian chapter of the “Secondary Archive project”.  

is a contemporary art researcher, curator, and writer, Culture-Editor-in-Chief at Ukraine’s public broadcaster. Her publications include the book “Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art” and a special issue of Obieg Magazine on “Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014” (with Tatiana Kochubinska).  She has curated exhibitions including "I dreamed of beasts" (Lublin, Poland, with Halyna Hleba), "Everyone is afraid of the baker, and I thank you" (apartment exhibition, Irpin, Ukraine, 2022), and "Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us" (Lviv, Ukraine, with Natalia Matsenko and Borys Filonenko). She is co-curator of the Ukrainian chapter of the Secondary Archive project.   

artist, cultural anthropologist, essayist, b. in Donetsk, Ukraine. Participant of the 60th Venice Biennale. Her art and research practices engage with the issues of collective trauma, anthropocene, decolonial stories, and agency and visibility of vulnerable groups. As an artist, she works across a wide range of media including photography, installations, textile sculptures, etc. Among the recent exhibitions there are “Heart of Earth” (Copenhagen, Denmark) and “Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds” (Tallinn, Estonia, with Andrii Dostliev). 

Ukrainian-Canadian artist born in Canada and currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. Ayla is interested in the sites of return, reclamation, and interstice that co-exist in diasporic cultural memory. In her practice, she uses autotheory and auto-ethnographical writing. Ayla had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the UK and Greece, and her works are part of the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection and the National Gallery of Canada Archives & Collections.  

organisational and existential coach, facilitator and trainer, psychologist. Author and coordinator of mentoring and civil society capacity building programmes.   

BIPoC feminist Queer intersectional & political educator with focus on human rights, diversity, intersectionality and holistic wellbeing. Kholoud has over 23 years of experience working in NGOs, collectives and the private sector in the African continent, Global South and Europe. Their work areas include training & workshops, consultancy, mediation & supervision, leading organizational development processes, event organizing and group or one to one somatic therapy sessions & workshops.