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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Edition includes Jewish folk songs from the archives of the Institute of Manuscript of V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, recorded by folklore expeditions under the leadership of M. Berehovskyi in 1944 and 1945 from former prisoners of camps and ghettos created in the south Ukraine during the German-Romanian occupation. Facsimile copies of the original song recordings and their artistic translation into Ukrainian are published in the book.

☄ book design
Songs of Holocaust / date: January 2023