[EMILIIA]
Cooperation and love:
mila.kostyana@gmail.com
Instagram+
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.
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
[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.
As a multimedia designer and researcher, Mila is
interested in working on the projects in the intersection of ecology, decolonial, gender and queer studies.
Open Call for Young Artists DCCC
Construction VIII
Nevertheless
‘Maibuttia’ film program. DCCCx 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 ⚙
Roots
Neringa Forest Architecture
Sweet Dreams Foundation
Workshops for Children
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
Rabotnitsa
Exhibitionist
A historical novel, written on behalf of the fictional character Maximilian Aue – a former SS officer, an ordinary executor of the Nazi program 'the final solution of the Jewish question'. He is intellectual, deep in the study of philosophy, classical literature, music, and a cold-blooded murderer. The plot of the book takes place on the Eastern Front (Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Stalingrad), in Poland, Germany, Hungary, and France during World War II and the Holocaust. Massacre in Babyn Yar, genocide of Jews in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv, the usage of gas wagons and gas chambers – all are shown through the optics of the organizer and performer of 'von Aktionen'.
☄ book design
Jonathan Littell ‘The Kindly Ones’ / date: August – October 2021