Родной Язык/Mother Tongue is a project “about” and “in” the Soviet-era Russian gay argot/defense language. In this project, the Soviet-era, Russian gay argot/defense language is given a name – “Tematicheskiy” language (the language for those “in the know”) – and is treated as a complete, self-sufficient, and distinct language, separate from the standard Russian. In Родная речь/Mother Tongue, the Russian gay argot/defense language is conceptualized as a cultural treasure, a national language of the Russian-speaking LGBTQ community, and as a…
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Aperto Raum presents Political Animals by Alina Bliumis, her first solo exhibition in Germany. The title of the exhibition references Aristotle’s term in his politics. “However, instead of meaning, as Aristotle did, that we…
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Alexander Bondar is a photographer who co-created Zoopark Collective with photographer and publisher Tatyana Palyga. We met Alexander in Kreuzberg. He told us about his journey from Russia to Germany, why he didn’t like…
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Tatyana Palyga lived in many places before finally moving to Berlin. She recently opened Zoopark Studio with her business partner Alexander Bondar in Berlin-Neukölln. Reason enough for us to sit down with her and…
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Zoopark Publishing Collective launches Zoopark Studio [Berlin] in Kreuzberg Zoopark Publishing Collective is a team of two Russian photographers, Tatyana Palyga and Alexander Bondar, officially named Zoopark Collective since 2016, but actually united already in…
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Elena Margulis is an entrepreneur and the founder of fEast – a series of events in Berlin which aim to show the diversity of Eastern European culture. We met the Ukrainian in Prenzlauer Berg…
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Gala, first named Elena Diakonova, was born in the Russian Empire and moved to Switzerland at an early age then later to Paris, where she married the young poet Paul Éluard. She was a…
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WHAT: The picture book project for adults Through personal objects and stories, searching for thoughts, words and images about your own „I“ : — which parts do I consist of — what is my…
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The author Ani Menua, the illustrator Ekaterina Koroleva and the Russian-Jewish painter Marc Chagall met for a (fictitious) conversation at Galerie Van Diemen in Berlin, where Marc Chagall and other Russian contemporary artists held…
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Throughout the month of September, the exhibition “Art Without Death” examines the Russian avant-garde and the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement of Russian Cosmism, which imagined nothing less than overcoming death. Comprised of…
