ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / Strong Together/Сильні разом

From March to August 2024, in the frame of the project Strong Together/Сильні разом, the Arsenal Gallery held the artistic residencies for six Ukrainian artists: Bozhena Kushnir, Iren Moroz, Natalia Kurnosova, Viktoria Teletien, Eva Alvor, Yevsieviia Ziakina.  The effects of the artists’ stay in Bialystok were the workshops and presentations for the local public.  We encourage you to look at the artists’ bios and portfolios.

Bozhena Kushnir is an artist from Ukraine who lives and works in Lviv and Wroclaw 50/50. She graduated 2017 from the Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ukraine) with a Master of Interior Design. Studying in 2016 at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw (Poland) formed the principles of the artist’s work. The author explores and reflects on events and emotions, discussing complex everyday topics through painting, graphic design, and collage. Important for her is interaction with the audience and the theme of feminism.

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Iren Moroz is a documentary photographer, film director, artist, and writer. She graduated from the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD) in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2007. In her artistic practice, she focuses mainly on exploring the relationship between human rights and crisis in societies undergoing transition. She has lived in Poland since 2022.

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Natalia Kurnosova, born in Dnipro, is a Kyiv-based artist who graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2021. In her work, Kurnosova explores war and ethnic themes through oil painting, paper cutouts, and mixed media. Participated in numerous Ukrainian and international exhibitions.

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Viktoria Teletien was born in Donetsk, studied in Kharkiv, and relocated to Lviv in March 2022. In 2012, she graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts with a specialization in monumental painting. Her work—paintings, prints, and objects—is about rediscovering the meaning of things that have lost their original functions. She is also concerned with identity, security, and ecology topics.

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Eva Alvor (pseudonym) – artist and designer, currently lives and works in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. In 2006 she graduated with honors from Khmelnytskyi National University, Faculty of Design. Since 2019, Alvor has been participating in exhibitions, creating works in the genre ofcontemporary painting and graphics, working with textiles, embroidery, and creating costume designs for theater actors.

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Yevsieviia Ziakina (Ksiusha) was born and raised in Kharkiv but moved to Lviv in 2022 due to the full-scale war. She received a curatorial education from Kharkiv National University.  She works with authentic movement, playback performance, animation, and text. She has implemented several curatorial projects and systematically organizes movement and theater practice workshops. Currently, she is the head of the public organization «Trubadury».

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