Yulia Belousova grew-up amongst an artistic milieu in Moscow. Her parents, especially her mother who was an urban planner, had a friendship circle that included many Russian artists. Life as an artist in Russia is very different…
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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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The DeLight festival is an environmentally-oriented light-art festival taking place in three different Berlin venues from March 25th to 27th. The festival promotes sustainable lifestyles through contemporary art and aims to establish a new form of communication…
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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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Berlin-based Russian artist Katerina Belkina is presenting her complete works in a single exhibition for the first time at Direktorenhaus Museum for Art Crafts Design in Berlin. Across 40 works, with her stunning and…
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Introducing Ira Thiessen. Ira is an incredibly talented photographer who recently graduated from the renowned Berlin photography school, Ostkreuzschule. Thiessen’s work is making appearances across many of the major newspapers at the moment, from…
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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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My very favorite Russian alternative arts festival in the world is taking place in Berlin this weekend, and I can’t wait to meet all those great (Russian-speaking) Berliners. Ruberoid Festival is an intercultural arts…
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From 15th to 21th of May 2015 the debut of Russian Contemporary Art Week (RCAW) took place in Berlin. Three different locations served as the setting for a creative encounter across cultural boundaries, in…
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This is Dominik. Dominik is actually German but lived in Moscow for 7 years. That was from 2003 to 2010. In the Russian capital, he worked as an illustrator for Art. Lebedev Studio, the…