Encounters with contemporary cultural workers from Ukraine
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program has long-standing links with artists from Ukraine. Its alumni include the composer Valentin Silvestrov, the writers Serhij Zhadan and Yuri Andrukhovych and the visual artists Iliya Chichkan and Boris Mikhailov. In 2014, the highly acclaimed exhibition The Ukrainians at the daadgalerie presented artistic interventions that reflected the political unrest during the Maidan movement. In order to honour these relationships and offer Ukrainian cultural practitioners a resonance space, artist Lada Nakonechna and curator Bettina Klein were invited in spring 2022 to conceive interdisciplinary encounters with artists and cultural practitioners from Ukraine. This initiative resulted in an ongoing collaboration with the Ukrainian cultural scene.
The participants are invited to Berlin on short-term scholarships.
Since 2022, the encounters with Ukrainian cultural practitioners have been financed by special funds from the Federal Foreign Office.