MILA KOSTIANÁ
[EMILIIA]

Cooperation and love:
mila.kostyana@gmail.com

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EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

2024

‘Resonance Beyond Escape:
Qworkaholics Anonymous III’,
Nida Art Colony of the
Vilnius Academy of Arts

[Nida, Lithuania]

2024 

curator for Children’s Plant Library,
Nida Art Colony of the
Vilnius Academy of Arts

[Nida, Lithuania]

2024
co-curator for Construction Festival Residency x 3:e Våningen x SHAPE+,
[Gothenburg, Sweden]

2024
coordinator for Construction Festival x
Saund & Hääl x SHAPE+,
[Tallinn, Estonia]

2022 – 2023

'Sweet Dreams Foundation',
M. K. Čiurlionis
National Museum of Art,
Kaunas Picture Gallery

[Kaunas, Lithuania]

2022

'Sweet Dreams Foundation',
Nida Art Colony of the
Vilnius Academy of Arts

[Nida, Lithuania]

2022

Short Films programme 
for 'Kyiv Volunteer', 
Nida Art Colony of the
Vilnius Academy of Arts

[Nida, Lithuania]

2022

Performance programme
'Service', Kaunas Artists’ House
[Kaunas, Lithuania]

2021

curator at World Day for
Audiovisual Heritage in the
Eastern-European Context,
online

2020

'Viadrinicum 2020.
(Post) Migration',
Brandenburg State
Museum for Modern Art

[Frankfurt (Oder), Germany]





ART & DESIGN & WRITING

2024 – present
Design Lead at
Helping To Leave

2023 – present

Designer at Dnipro Center
for Contemporary Culture

[Dnipro, Ukraine]

2022 – present

freelance graphic designer
for Nida Art Colony of the
Vilnius Academy of Arts

[Nida, Lithuania]

2023 – 2024

Lead Graphic Designer
at Junior Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine

[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2023 – 2024

Graphic designer
at savED Foundation
[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2021 – 2022

Designer at Babyn Yar
Holocaust Memorial Center

[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2020 – 2024

Designer at
Minimalist camper park
[Kyiv, Ukraine]
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Designer at
Kharms city café
[Kyiv, Ukraine]
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Designer at
Minimalist city café 
[Odesa, Ukraine]

2015 – 2018

Journalist at Studway
[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2016

Copywriter at
IT festival De:coded
[Lviv, Ukraine]

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2021 – 2022

Coordinator at
human rights organisation
Freedom House

2017 – 2018

Sous-chef at
Minimalist city café
[Odesa, Ukraine]

2016 – 2017

Head of Internet-Marketing
at STUD-POINT
[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2015 – 2017

Cook at Kharms city café
[Kyiv, Ukraine]





EDUCATION

2016 – 2017

BA Cultural Studies,
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,
NaUKMA

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

2024

New Ecologies: Decentralizing the human
through contemporary art, Institute
for Postnatural Studies, [Online]

Meeting Images with Syndicat,
INTL International, [Online]

2022

Workshop on the development
of visual thinking and language,
Kultura School
[Kyiv, Ukraine]

2021

Queer Theory,
Utopian Kruzhok
[international initiative]

2020

Peace, Labour, Feminism: socialist
women's activism, Utopian Kruzhok
[international initiative]

(Post-)Colonial Knowledge and Art,
Higher School 'Sreda Obuchenia'
[Online]

Futures instead of Ends
of The World, Utopian Kruzhok
[international initiative]

Viadrinicum 2020. Transsectoral LAB:
(Post-) Migration and (Dis-)Integrative
Encounters, Summer School,
European University Viadrina
[Germany]

Theory of Private Life,
Utopian Kruzhok
[international initiative]


Mila Kostianá was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1999.
As a multimedia designer and cultural manager, Mila is
interested in working on the projects in the intersection
of ecology, decolonial, gender and queer studies.


2024 
                     
                      And I’m Looking at a Close City ⚙
                      Nobody. Nowhere. Never. God Willing! ⚙
                      A series of Lectures on the Contexts of Dnipro ⚙
                      Children’s Plant Library ⚙
                      Resonance Beyond Escape: Qworkaholics Anonymous III ⚙
                      I Don’t Like Nature the Way It Is ⚙
                      The River Wailed, Like a Wounded Beast ⚙
                      POMIZH podcast ⚙ 
                      DCCC: We Are Open ⚙

2023 

                       Open Call for Emerging Artists DCCC
                       Construction VIII
                       Nevertheless
                       ‘Maibuttia’ film program DCCC x Dovzhenko Center
                       Minimalist camper park ⚙
                       AUYBACH ⚙
                       The Elasticity of Research Through the Sensorial ⚙
                       soundless till the point of deafness          
                       Let The Long. Road. Lead. To. Stairs In. The Heavens.
                       Songs of Holocaust
                       Kharms city cafe ⚙

2022            

                       Roots
                       Neringa Forest Architecture
                       Sweet Dreams Foundation
                       Workshops for Children

2021            

                       Photo archives of the prominent Jewish-Ukrainian families
                       Chronicles of the Holocaust (1933–1945),
                       Chronicles of the Occupation of Kyiv (1941–1943)
                       Polonyna
                       Ravine of Death – Ravine of Memory
                       Jonathan Littell ‘The Kindly Ones’
                       Take On Things

2020            

                       Rabotnitsa

2019           

                       Exhibitionist


MILA KOSTIANÁ
[EMILIIA]

Cooperation and love:
mila.kostyana@gmail.com

Instagram+

Mila Kostianá was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1999.
As a multimedia designer and researcher, Mila is
interested in working on the projects in the intersection of ecology, decolonial, gender and queer studies.


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An issue of a self-published art journal on the experience of contemporary art curation.

☄ editorial design, curatorial
Exhibitionist / date: December 2018 – March 2019