Discussion with Yevgenia Belorusets on International Human Rights Day

• Language: German
• Speakers: Yevgenia Belorusets, Ukrainian author and artist, Kyiv/Berlin; Antje Himmelreich, legal scholar, Institute for Eastern European Law, Regensburg
• Moderation: Guido Hausmann, historian, IOS Regensburg; Regina Hellwig-Schmid, artist, Regensburg

Yevgenia Belorusets is an artist and writer who lives and works between Kyiv and Berlin. Her works operate at the interface of visual art, literature, journalism and activism and create a connection between document and artistic language.

Her artistic works have been shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale. For her work on “Diary from Kyiv”, she received the Schering Stiftung Special Prize for Artistic Research and the Horst Bingel Prize for Literature in 2022. Since February 24, 2022, she has been documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Her latest works examine the absurdity of warlike violence and focus on the situations of those who feel alienated from the acts of war during war.

Yevgenia is a co-founder of the Ukrainian magazine Prostory, a freelance contributor to Berlin Review, author of the photo series “Victories of the Defeated” and the books “Happy Cases” and “On the Modern Life of Animals” (2024) and “Beginning of the War” (2022). Her photographic works draw attention to the more vulnerable parts of Ukrainian society - queer families, unemployed miners, Roma, people living in the war zone in the east - and were shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale. “Happy Cases” was awarded the HKW International Literature Prize in Germany in 2020. In 2022, she received the Schering Stiftung Special Prize for Artistic Research and the Horst Bingel Prize for Literature for her work on “Diary from Kyiv”. Since February 24, 2022, she has been documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Photo: Yevgenia Belorusets