Nataly Benivska is an art director who lives and works in Berlin-Mitte. She’s living in Berlin, and enjoys hip hop dancing and riding her bike with her white terrier in the basket. We talked to the Ukrainian about her Berlin story. Where are you from? I was born and raised in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. I lived there until I moved to Kyiv for school when I was 17 years old. What is the strongest memory you have of your hometown? The…
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Masha Isserlis is a Ukrainian woman who came to Germany in 2004. As an art historian and curator, she is a part of the curatorial team of the non-profit art space “Aperto Raum” in…
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Helena Melikov is more than a Berlinograder, as a “Berlinogirl” she is also part of our Berlinograd team. We talked to the talented graphic designer about her childhood, about why Russian New Year’s Eve…
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There’s a new cultural platform in town that’s bringing Eastern European art and culture to Berlin. Founded by Saint-Petersburg born Boris Schneider and Elizabeth Short, a native Brit, preparations for ЧТО’s debut are under…
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Dariya Susak was born in Moscow where she departed from seven years ago. “I didn’t really get a chance to work in Moscow. I was nineteen years old and those times were on fire!”…
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Introducing Katerina Belkina. The Berlin-based Russian grew up in Samara. With a population of about one million people, Samara is still considered somewhat provincial by Russian standards. By the time Katerina had reached her…
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Meet identical twins Maria and Natalia. The pair were born in Leningrad yet departed from the city the year it regained its original name, St. Petersburg. Their father, a film producer and their mother,…
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This is Slava. Slava is a Street & Tape Artist from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine who came to live in Germany with his family when he was 18 years old. They moved to Lübeck in Northern…
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Meet the lovely Ekaterina. I first came across the very talented illustrator when COUCH Magazine published a beauty editorial with her illustrations. Being already familiar with her work from Elle and other publications, I…
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This is Niina. Yes, Niina with double “i”. Niina was born in Saint Petersburg and when she was only two years old, she moved to Tallinn, Estonia. “The word ‘nina’ in Estonian means ‘nose’,”…