Faced with the war in the Ukraine that not only touches but shakes her to her core, Ira Melkonyan created a personal map of voices in her head, which documents and sheds light on this rupture.

Why has Ukraine – and to a certain extent also other Eastern European countries – been such a blind spot in European culture and art circles? Ukrainian curator Kateryna Botanova tries to come up with some answers to that question.

Three weeks after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan remains in war-ravaged Kiev, sheltering in place at Voloshyn Gallery.

Shortly before the start of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, we received this text by Sepideh Ardalani. We publish it parallel to her essay on gardening at Massia.

Sepideh Ardalani on what she learned in the garden of Massia—a self-organized residency space in southwestern Estonia.