Tuesday, March 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Location: Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street, Brooklyn NY 11231 (map)
Residency Unlimited (RU) and Flux Factory hosted a discussion with Anna Chistoserdova, Eva Khachatryan, and Tatiana Kochubinska. RU Curator Data Chigholashvili moderated the event.
The keynote speakers present their work on various forms of exchanges in arts and culture. Concentrating on the Eastern European and post-Soviet contexts, they discuss their experiences with different predicaments and approaches when organizing international collaborations and residencies. Anna Chistoserdova shares her experience of work in exile by focusing on the examples of organizing residencies for Belarusian artists and cultural workers, and continuing international artistic cooperation in the context of Eastern Europe. Eva Khachatryan discusses her curatorial work in relation to informal and organized forms of artistic exchanges in Armenia, and the financial difficulties related to it, as well as talks about the importance of collective practices and horizontal structures. Tatiana Kochubinska discusses how the war in Ukraine has simultaneously increased visibility and restricted mobility in arts, and talks about her work on continuing international partnerships. The panel discussion explores the importance of establishing bonds and networks throughout the years of working internationally, which turned out to be essential in continuing artistic and cultural exchanges despite various conflicts and restraints that have characterized the region and the countries therein.
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About
Anna Chistoserdova was born in 1982 in Minsk, Belarus, and since 2021, has been based in Berlin, Germany. From 2004 to 2020, Anna was a managing partner, co-founder of two independent galleries – Podzemka and Ў gallery of contemporary art (Minsk, Belarus). Since 2014, she has been a co-founder, manager, and curator of NGO Ambasada Kultury (Vilnius, Lithuania). Anna is the co-initiator, co-curator, and manager of an online platform The International Coalition of Culture Workers in Solidarity With Ukraine (2022). She is also the manager of the PerspAktiv project – a program of art residencies in Germany and Poland for Belarusian cultural workers.
Eva Khachatryan (Armenia) is an independent curator, Vice-President of AICA Armenia (International Association of Art Critics). From 2003 to 2008, she worked as a curator at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA). Between 2006 and 2008, she held the position of co-director in the Department of Fine Arts at the ACCEA. Currently, she runs the suburb.am platform with a focus on project-based art residencies. Eva oversees Residency Programs in collaboration with Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf and CEC ArtsLink. Her recent projects include “Listening to Imagine” (Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, 2020) and “Things We Sense About Each Other” (Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe).
Tatiana Kochubinska (Ukraine) is an art historian, independent curator, author, and lecturer. In 2020, she co-edited Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014 for Obieg magazine. In 2022, she was a fellow at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE and joined the curatorial team of antiwarcoalition.art. In 2023, she co-curated Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian art 1912-2023 (Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections, DE) and in 2024, she co-curated Maybe We Can Have Fun Together by Ivan Svitlychnyi (Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL), Landscapes of an Ongoing Past (Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, DE) and Sense of Safety (YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, UA and across Europe).
Data Chigholashvili is the Curator of Residency Unlimited. Data works at the intersection of social anthropology and contemporary art. Their research, curatorial practice, and art projects explore topics around visual and urban anthropology, ethnography, socially engaged art, natural and built environments, public space, migration, foodways, memory, queering, archives, and/or museums. Data has worked in arts and culture independently, was the Curator of International Programs at the State Silk Museum, and was a team member of an artist-run organization and residency GeoAIR (both in Tbilisi, Georgia).
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
