Alexander Koreshkov

I worked on television for 11 years, then 7 years in advertising, then more than 10 years of freelancing. Illustrated more than 5 books, made more than 10 comics, and drew more than 5 animated music videos.

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022). Khromeychuk has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Prospect and The New Statesman, and has delivered a TED talk on ‘What the World Can Learn From Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy’.

Jakob Wunderwald is a translator, academic and PhD reasearcher at the University of Potsdam. He has translated works by Valerian Pidmohylny, Olena Stiazhkina and others. His academic work is focused on contemporary and Soviet Belarusian literature with a primary focus on aspects of gender, nation building and literary conceptions of «truth«.

A philosopher, writer, columnist and musician, Taras was born in Romny in Sumy region. He studies the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. His areas of interest include philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture. He writes short essays on cultural studies for The Ukrainian Week. He plays in a band The Four from Polonez.

He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic and the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Doctor of Philosophy. Professor at the NaUKMA Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Senior fellow at the Department of Philosophical Anthropology of the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy.

Taras managed an International Renaissance Foundation program “Social Capital and Academic Publications” (2008-2011). He is a curator and lecturer of The Cultural Project. Lecturer at the Ukrainian Leadership Academy. Curator of Philosophy translation program of the classics of intellectual thought (jointly with Mizhvukhamy [Betweentheears] Foundation and Tempora Publishing House).

Photojournalist, cultural manager, local producer. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Translators in Action initiative group. Works with The New York Times, The Daily Mail and other media. Сurrently is documenting war crimes in eastern Ukraine.

Natasha Chychasova is a curator and researcher from Donetsk, based in Kyiv. The focus of her research on Ukrainian contemporary art is women’s writing practices, the impact of the war on the artistic practices and art institutions. Now she is a head of the contemporary art department at the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

Valeriia Guievska works in Mystetskyi Arsenal since 2017. She creates identities for cultural projects and spatial design for exhibitions and museum projects.

Kharkiv journalist, co-founder and head of the Kharkiv Media Hub, co-founder and head of the Nakypilo Media Group (2014-2020), director of documentaries about Kharkiv, media trainer, certified trainer at the DW Academy