Participants

Vira Baldyniuk

Ukrainian journalist, cultural commentator, chief editor at online magazine "Korydor". She works at the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation (Kyiv). Curator of cultural educational projects. Areas of interests - theories of culture, visual arts, new media, literary criticism.

Nana Giglemiani

Born in 1991, Nana Giglemiani has lived for 23 years in Tbilisi, Georgia. Bachelor in Computer Science and Graphic Design she was granted for the scholarship of French government to do her Master 1. She continued her studies in Semiotics, Cultural Intelligence and Innovation at Paris Diderot. Also, the experienience of being a student of an interdisciplinary informal masters program at Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, influenced her interest in the current processes in the local art and public space. 

Hubert Gromny

Student of graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Co-founder of artistic group Spirala, co-organizer of the 4th edition

of Zbiornik Kultury, co-coordinator of

an education Marxian group and the project "After capitalizm".

Armine Hovhannisyan

Lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. Visual artist graduated from the Armenian Open University, Depart. of Fine Arts (2004). She has been exhibited locally and internationally. Her practice questions the stereotyped narratives

in the contemporary society – the cultural remains of the Soviet past in the post-Soviet conditions and the role of a woman in the urban/public space.

Ksenia Malykh

Born in 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv. Curator of Closer art-center and a member of OK projects - curatorial group. She is a gallery curator and manager, and author of the educational program. She was involved in more than 40 visual art projects since 2009 and has experinece as a lecturer. She is interested in visual art projects that combine experiments with interdisciplinary approach.

Nini Palavandishvili

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Studied Art History in Tbilisi. Graduated from the UdK Berlin in Faculty of Public and Industrial Communication. In 2006 joined artist initiative GeoAIR. Actively engaged in curating and organizing international exchange projects. Coordinator of an art residency program by GeoAIR. Through her projects Nini researches on social and political contexts and its interpretation in cultural production and contemporary art.

Photo by Evgen Chorny

Tetiana Zhmurko

Senior researcher of Modern art department

at National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv since 2012. Her work experience mainly includes the investigation of contemporary art collection of Museum and creating an archive of Ukrainian media art from 1980s until now. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2007 with a M.A. in theory and history of art.