Vadym Karpiak

Maryna Ponomarenko was born in 1984 in the village of Hryhorivka, Kyiv Region.
She graduated from the Kyiv State University of Theater, Film and TV named after I. Karpenko-Kary (specialisation – film and TV dramaturgy, workshop of Bohdan Zholdak).
Author of the poetry collection «The Book of Love and Fury». Based on her poems, the play «Hold on to the Emptiness» (directed by Tamara Antropova), as well as the performance «Dig» (directed by Olena Vahrameeva) was created.

Poet

Master of philology (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2005). Director of Smoloskyp bookstore. Translator (Peter Barry ‘Beginning theory’ (2008), Ron Capps ‘Writing war’ (2022).

Autor of six books.

Yelyzaveta Zharikova іs a Ukrainian poet, musician, activist. She was born in Novopskov, Luhansk region, she graduated with a master’s degree from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University. Zharikova participated in the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity (Maidan, 2014). With the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she became a combat medic in the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Kateryna Semenyuk has been a curator and manager in the art scene since 2010, focusing on an artistic approach to collective memory. From 2019 – co-founder of the Past / Future / Art memory culture platform. Among latest projects are the exhibitions «From 1914 till Ukraine» at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Germany and «Ground Shadows» at Museum Kazerne Dossin in Belgium. Curator of the National Pavilion of Ukraine at maltabiennale.art 2024.