Vitalii Shupliak is an arstist, born in Berezhany (Ukraine), and currently based in Germany. He works with video, installation and performance, and is a founder of Pi Gallery, as well as a former member of…

I first encountered Muratova’s work during another period of social isolation: as I was writing my DPhil dissertation at the University of Oxford. My boyfriend at the time was a film scholar and he was…

Kyiv and Paris based curator group socl: e  brought together works of contemporary artists from Ukraine and France at MetaCulture space. Ironic project “Uglification” is dedicated to the aesthetics of the non-beautiful, strange, accidental, and…

Thirty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and so did the old world order. The Soviet Union only survived a couple of years. Some might remember the dream of Mikhail Gorbachev about the common “European…

Ukrainian society is closing into “cosy ghettos”, says Serhiy Zhadan – but the writer and activist thinks that there are still ways in which dialogues can be opened up with people in the occupied territories….

Croatian writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulic may be called a communism anthropologist. What she studies is soviet mentality. That may be documenting women’s experience of everyday life in socialism (“How We Survived Communism and Even…

And if turning to mankind in these days I reveal how like an arrow the century flies And indeed from this band of days Did war take wing some archaic, unspoken glyph? Velimir Khlebnikov Is…