Zhanna Kadyrova is a Ukrainian artist whose practice spans sculpture, mosaic, photography, video, installation, and performance. Born in Brovary and trained in sculpture at the Taras Shevchenko State Art High School in Kyiv, she works with themes of urban space, social transformation, collective memory, and war. A former member of the R.E.P. collective, she has recently focused on projects responding to the ongoing war and the realities of displacement, including Palianytsia, Russian Rocket, Refugees, and Instrument.
Kadyrova is the recipient of major national and international awards, among them the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (2012), the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2013), the Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2014), the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2024), and Her Art Prize (2025), and she will be exhibiting at the upcoming 61st Venice Art Biennale. Her works are held in leading European public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig, Castello di Rivoli, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Helsinki Art Museum, and the Art Collection of the German Bundestag. She lives and works in Kyiv.
Ukrainian artist and curator Denys Pankratov (*1988) is the co-founder of the Method Fund (since 2015). Within the framework of this organisation he has engaged in various projects, seminars, exhibitions and publications, on the critical study and examination of Socialist Realism in Ukrainian art museums. In 2019, Denys Pankratov researched the history of Ukrainian national labor movements of the interwar period. Based on his research, he created the exhibitions Territory of Terror, From Basements to Basements and The Wounded and the Dead. In 2021, together with Victoria Dorr, he founded the private exhibition space Interroom Space, in which exhibitions and other semi-public events were held until 2024. W
ith the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, Denys Pankratov was engaged in volunteer activities, supporting internally displaced persons (IDPs) among other things. In May 2023, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he serves as a combat medic to this day.
Maryna Hordiienko is a music critic, musicologist and music communication manager. Her work focuses on decolonization practices in Ukraine and aims to diversify intonational practices in the country’s contemporary musical life. She writes about Ukrainian contemporary music, organizes new music concerts in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa, and conducts research Soviet-era Ukrainian composers who were officially marginalized. She collaborates with the CMM Center of Youth Music, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, the Liatoshynskyi Foundation, Ukrainian Radio, HUK Media, and many others.
Maryna Hordiienko will be in Berlin for a one-month fellowship in October/November 2025 as part of a special program supported by the German Federal Foreign Office for artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine to present her work.
Boris Loginov (born in Kyiv in 1990) is a Ukrainian composer and performer. He works across genres, creating instrumental and electroacoustic music, artistic performances and installations, as well as theater and film music.
Loginov is interested in exploring the concepts of memory and time and also deals with ambivalence by engaging in multi-layered investigations of mutually exclusive concepts. He pursues the desire to create compositions with interpenetrating sound ideas and meanings and is completely open to all known techniques. He turns to both conditional or direct theatricality and synthesis with other art forms.
He studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv (class of Professor Levko Kolodub) and continued his education at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw as a Gaude Polonia scholarship holder (class of Professor Marcin Blazewicz) and at the University of Music in Freiburg (class of Alexander Grebtschenko). He also took part in masterclasses and lessons with Jaime Reis, Stefan Prins, Annette Vande Gorne, Oxana Omelchuk, Mehmet Can Özer, and Alla Zahaykevich. He has collaborated with various ensembles and soloists in different genres.
Boris Loginov will be in Berlin for a one-month fellowship in October/November 2025 as part of a special program supported by the German Federal Foreign Office for artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine. On October 16, he will present his work at the daadgalerie as part of an event co-curated by Les Vynogradov and Albert Saprykin and Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (KCMD).
Vitalii Vyshynskyi (b. 1983) is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, musicologist, lecturer, and promoter for contemporary music. He received his education at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv), where he studied both composition and musicology. He holds a doctorate in art history. Currently, he teaches at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and works as a lecturer and music history expert with TransformWise Intellectual Agency (Kyiv).
Vyshynskyi is the author of orchestral, chamber instrumental, and vocal works. According to critics, his music is marked by intellectual depth, intertextuality and polystylism, balancing the pathos of late Romanticism with expressive minimalism, contemplative lyricism with dramatic intensity. His compositions have been performed at various contemporary music festivals, including Klangwerkstatt Berlin Festival für Neue Musik and Die Tage der Neuen Musik Bamberg in Germany.
Since 2024, Vyshynskyi has been working on a research-based artistic project titled “Re-experiencing Childhood”, which explores the significance of childhood memories and experiences in the context of existential crisis in adulthood. The project includes artistic interaction with adult audiences, creating a reflective space for revisiting childhood in order to find pathways to personal healing, wholeness and reintegration. The project encompasses lectures, conference presentations, concert performances in Ukraine (Kyiv) and Germany (Munich), as well as recordings and releases of original compositions on streaming platforms.
Vitalii Vyshynskyi will be in Berlin for a one-month fellowship in October/November 2025 as part of a special program supported by the German Federal Foreign Office for artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine. On October 29, he will present his work at the daadgalerie as part of an event co-curated by Les Vynogradov and Albert Saprykin (Kyiv Contemporary Music Days).
Photo: Julia Sharonova
Tetiana Khoroshun is a composer, sound artist, and performer with over 10 years of active project experience. Her work, which spans social, political, and environmental themes, is characterized by experimentation, performativity and interdisciplinarity. Tetiana’s projects and music have been presented in Austria, Poland, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Canada, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, China and Ukraine.
Khoroshun is a laureate of international music competitions, recipient of the Presidential Scholarship for Young Artists (2019) and the Presidential Grant of Ukraine (2019). Her projects have been recognized at the international Dora Mavor Moore Awards and have received a nomination at the Ukrainian national theatre festival-premiere GRA. Her works were presented on Ruhrtriennale, Ars Electronica, TO)pot festival, Forum 2000 conference.
As a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, she creates sound installations, and music for performances, cinema, and computer games. Tetiana is the co-author and performer in the electroacoustic duets GUMA and “first_tape,” serves as a composer and sound designer at Daraba Studio. She is manager of Sed Contra Ensemble. Member of Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music.
Tetiana Khoroshun will be in Berlin for a one-month fellowship in October/November 2025 as part of a special program supported by the German Federal Foreign Office for artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine. On October 16 and 29, she will present her work at the daadgalerie as part of events co-curated by Les Vynogradov and Albert Saprykin (Kyiv Contemporary Music Days).
Variable Name/Назва змінна is an artistic and curatorial group founded by Ukrainian artists and curators Valeria Karpan and Maryna Marinichenko in 2018. The group works at the intersection of participatory art and non-formal education. The artists are interested in the processes of communication and exchange in the urban environment, multisensory experiences, memory, and commemoration practices. Since 2022, the group has been dealing with the representation of the Ukrainian context in international institutions through public performances, exhibitions, and residencies.
Variable Name/Назва змінна will be in Berlin for a one-month fellowship in September 2025 as part of a special program supported by the German Federal Foreign Office for artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine. They will present their work at the daadgalerie on September 2nd as part of the series Peilung#8: Coping.
Choreographer and dance teacher Viktor Ruban is the director of Ruban Production ITP in Kiev. He is the initiator of the Ukrainian Emergency Performing Arts Fund, co-founder of the international dance platform Impulse of Transformation and founded #KyivDanceResidency – a platform for international studies on somatic dance and performance practices, movement-based art and research.
In the summer semester 2025, Viktor Ruban held the Valeska Gert Guest Professorship for Dance and Performance at the FU Berlin.
Andrii Rachinskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi are artists from Kharkiv (Ukraine) who combine different formats of artistic practices (installations, reenactment, video, archives) and explore the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of Ukraine. Graduate of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art, majoring in graphic design. In 2012, they created a public page “Pamjat” (Memory) on the social network Vkontakte with the aim of exploring collective memory in the post-Soviet space. This project was the starting point for their collaboration. Shortlisted for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018, 2020 and 2022. Winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 for the project “Hooligans”. In 2022 Andrii and Daniil won the main prize of the “Allegro Prize” the largest international competition for contemporary art in Poland.
In 2024, Andrii Rachinskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi are representing Ukraine alongside other artists at the 60th Venice Biennale in the group exhibition “Net Making”.
Andrii Rachinskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi will stay in Berlin in November/December 2024 with a short-term fellowship to support encounters with Ukrainian Artists and will present their work at the event Peilung#7 at the daadgalerie on November 28.
Oksana Kazmina is an artist, filmmaker, and educator. She is also a participant in the cine-movement “Freefilmers,” which was originally founded in Mariupol, Ukraine. Kazmina works at the intersection of performance art, moving image, and critical media theory. Her main focus is the relationship between modern body and media, the mediality of experience, the embodied memory. Since 2015, Kazmina has been working on her debut feature, “Underwater,” which evolved into an online exhibition www.dokvira.cam. Just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kazmina developed a series of walks-lectures “Contemporary History of Ukraine” and a bio-art project, “Dead/ly Landscapes or I Myself Should Become All Places I Loved.” Currently, Kazmina is conducting research on the relationship between ritual, cybernetics, and moving image, focusing on the work of Kyiv-born avant-garde artist and filmmaker Maya Deren.
Oksana Kazmina will stay in Berlin in November/December 2024 with a short-term fellowship to support encounters with Ukrainian Artists and will present her work at the event Peilung#7 at the daadgalerie on November 28.
