Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities

This Network Plus brings together more than 30 academics, policymakers, and artists from leading centres of excellence, expertise, and training (7 UK and 6 Overseas) to comprehend, evaluate and address the challenges evident across a region encompassing Russia, China, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Central and Eastern Asia. It aims to create new syntheses, knowledge and networks, build new capacities, and train and mentor early career academics and policymakers.

More specifically, it aims to advance innovative new partnerships within academic and policy circles linked to a range of urgent thematic areas including social upheaval, geopolitics and security, environmental crisis, human rights, Russia-China relations, and post-conflict reconstruction. Through the network, open calls for new research, policy & research training, and arts-based initiatives will be funded each year between 2024 and 2028. In addition, there will be annual workshop devoted to priority emerging themes. 

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This Network Plus brings together interdisciplinary, comparative and policy-facing approaches, structured around the four following organising themes.

Orders: Understanding order in a broad sense - including both institutionalised organisations and implicit constellations of patterned practices and norms. Where are we seeing existing forms of order eroded or replaced? What new orderings — informal or formal—are we seeing emerge? To what extent are we witnessing a resurgence of spheres of influence? What norms— liberal, illiberal, or otherwise—do emerging orderings embody? What issues are they tackling, and which problems are being left unaddressed? How are relations in the region being organised, and what does this means for future trends?

Interactions: Interactions can take many forms—diplomatic, economic, legal, social, digital etc. Some are intentional and structured, others organic and inadvertent. What impact, for example, are interactions within the region having on the domestic politics of the states involved? How are movements of people or goods shaping regional relations and dependencies? How are transborder environmental effects shaping relations?

Anxieties: What are regional actors concerned about? What risks and dangers are considered most pressing? What fears/concerns are shaping domestic political environments or international political behaviours? Looking at a range of domains—security, environmental, economic, demographic etc—what issues represent salient concerns for regional actors?

Implications: What are the implications of the above for the UK? And, for the wider region and its inhabitants?

Please see below the Fellows and Project Leads together with their associated projects.

Fellows

Bergit Arends: History does not need to be as it was

Bergit Arends is a curator of contemporary art, museum professional, and academic with research interests in the intersections of material culture, art history, and environmental history within European and global contexts. Bergit’s monograph Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives (2024) is part of the Routledge series Photography, Place, Environment. Her doctoral research resulted among other in the award-winning publication Chrystel Lebas. Field Studies (2018).

She presents and publishes widely, including on the politics of natural sciences collections and critical engagements, such as ‘Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL’ (Environmental Humanities 2024), and in ‘Unequal Earth’ (NaturKultur 2021), The Botanical City (2020), Botanical Drift (2018), and on decolonising natural history museums (Art in Science Museums 2019). Bergit has curated many contemporary art projects for the natural history museums in London and Berlin (Art/Nature 2019).

Bergit was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bristol, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is now a Teaching Fellow. Bergit is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded CoastARTS project which investigates performance-based arts and local communities’ learning about and responses to the ecological crisis.

Bergit is Curatorial Research Fellow in the UK Research and Innovation Network Plus ‘Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China and Eurasia in transition’. Her project is ‘History does not need to be as it was: Perspectives from the Ground’ (quoting from Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan) to poetically explore the cultural complexity of the present day and its histories.

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Daryna Dvornichenko: Cities of Resistance - Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Recovery in Ukraine

Dr Daryna Dvornichenko is a Ukrainian scholar, senior visiting fellow at the University of Turku (Finland) and a visiting fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). She has previously held research fellowships at the German Marshall Fund, University of Wrocław, and King’s College London.

Daryna serves on the board of the Humans for Rights Network, is a UN Women Delegate to the CSW, and a research affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative. Her work, grounded in European integration, economic empowerment, and human rights, especially for vulnerable communities, focuses on developing strategies for resilient recovery amid crisis and displacement.

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Mariat Imaeva: Critical assessment of transitional justice and enforced disappearances in the Caucasus

Dr Mariat Imaeva is a researcher specialising in enforced disappearances, transitional justice, and the Caucasus. Her PhD (Dublin City University, 2024) explored humanitarian approaches to resolving conflict-related disappearances in the Caucasus with Chechnya and Georgia as the two case studies. During her PhD research, Mariat held visiting positions at Indiana University (USA) and Caucasus University (Georgia).

Over the past decade, Mariat has worked in international human rights organisations like DIGNITY – Danish Institute against Torture, REDRESS, Amnesty International, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre and Front Line Defenders. Committed to creating impactful research, Mariat used her findings from PhD field interviews with the families of the disappeared in Chechnya, to write the original concept note and work on the production of a short animated video on enforced disappearances in the North Caucasus, called In Limbo. The animation was screened at the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances in Geneva in January 2025.

Fluent in Chechen, English and Russian, Mariat’s work bridges academic, policy, and advocacy spaces, ensuring that the voices of victims and survivors are central to transitional justice and peacebuilding processes.

In addition to her PhD diploma, Mariat holds a Bachelor and Masters degree in Law from the University of Ghent in Belgium and a Master’s degree in International Humanitarian Action from UCD.

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Maksym Kolyba: Freedom of speech and freedom of religion within the legal regime of martial law and outside it in the context of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

Maksym Kolyba is a Ph.D. in Law, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Ukrainian Catholic University for Academic Affairs, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Political Science, and Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Law of UCU.

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Chiara Lovotti: Shaping perceptions, shifting orders - Russia’s strategic use of media in conflict management. Insights from the Wider Mediterranean

Chiara Lovotti is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bologna. Her academic research explores the Soviet Union’s role and impact on the state-building processes in postcolonial Arab countries, with a focus on Egypt, Iraq and Syria. She collaborates with a number of institutes and Think Tanks by researching Russia’s foreign policy in the MENA and associated political and security issues. These include Russia’s diplomatic strategy, military power and soft power projection, questions of terrorism, energy, and arms trade.

Chiara is also an Associate Fellow for the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). She has recently co-edited a Routledge book entitled 'Russia in the Middle East and North Africa. Continuity and Change'.

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Nadezhda Mamontova: Polarities of Arctic Diplomacy in the Barents Region: The Arctic Council's Influence and Indigenous People through Regional Media (1996–2025)

Nadezhda Mamontova (PhD) is currently a Newton International Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prior to her arrival in the UK, she was a collegium researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies in Finland and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. In 2020, she completed a PhD at the University of Oxford in the School of Geography and the Environment. Before that, she earned a PhD in History (Social Anthropology) from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Until 2021, she served as a Lead Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr Mamontova has worked with Russian Arctic and Siberian Indigenous Peoples since 2007.

Adelaide McGinity-Peebles: Russian Arctic Media

Adelaide's research focus is on contemporary Arctic, post-Soviet, and Indigenous film and media. Her recent research project (sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust) investigated the representations of the Russian Arctic in contemporary film. From this project, she is currently completing a monograph titled Russian Arctic Cinema: Figurations of the Russophone North in Contemporary Film, under contract with Edinburgh University Press. She has published on the topics of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and the environment in Arctic, post-Soviet, and Central Asian film and media.

Khayyam Namazov: Digital feminist resistance in the South Caucasus

Khayyam Namazov is a PhD researcher at Humboldt University (Berlin) and writer with a focus on social movements, digital activism, and the decolonization of knowledge. His recent research delves into the dynamics of LGBTQ+ activism and visibility in Azerbaijan.

In addition to his scholarly contributions, he is the author of the novel Monologue and has translated two books. Khayyam also works as a trainer and facilitator, collaborating with activists and beyond on related topics.

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Denis Shedov: Resisting exclusion - Legal culture, trauma and adaptation among Russian human rights lawyers in a polarising world

Denis is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, where his dissertation examines civil society and human rights. Alongside his academic work, he is a human rights activist, serving as a board member of the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial and as an analyst at OVD-Info.

His research focuses on the OSCE region, with a particular emphasis on Russia. His main interests include human rights and civil society in authoritarian regimes, especially issues related to freedom of assembly, the role of lawyers in human rights advocacy, and their contribution to broader civil society.

Denis is also a research collaborator in the Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia (HuRiEE) project at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. From 2023 to 2026, he holds an international mandate as a member of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Panel of Experts on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association.

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Yanran Yao: Counterbalancing the homeland's long arm: feminist/queer art-based activism of Chinese students in the UK

Yanran Yao (PhD) is a lecturer at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, specializing in Chinese politics, civil society, gender and diasporic politics, and international development. She is currently leading a project on feminist and queer activism among Chinese diasporas in the UK.

Her work, published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Contemporary China and China Nonprofit Review, covers topics like China’s pandemic volunteer mobilization, environmental politics, and international NGOs in China. Before London, she worked as a lecturer and deputy director of Nonprofit Management Program of the University of Hong Kong for three years.

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Project leads

Vera Axyonova: Thinking for the state, writing for the people? Kazakhstan's think-tanks in the time of poly-crises

Vera Axyonova (she/her) is Assistant Professor / Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Birmingham and founding Co-chair of the ECPR Research Network on Statehood, Sovereignty and Conflict. Her research interests span the study of international crisis and conflict management, cross-border transfer of norms and practices, expert knowledge production, and internationalization of research and higher education. Her articles have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Review of Policy Research, and East European Politics and Societies, among others.

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Precious Chatterje-Doody: War and order - Russian communication in the global south

Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Open University, UK. Her multidisciplinary research interests centre on questions of communication, perception, identity and security, with a particular focus on Russia.

​Dr Chatterje-Doody's latest book Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah' (co-authored with Tolz, Hutchings, Crilley and Gillespie) is available to download for free from Cornell University Press.

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Ablimit Baki Elterish: How Uyghur Parents Tell Their Children the Uyghur Story

Ablimit Baki Elterish (PhD) joined the University of Manchester, UK, in August 2006, where he is teaching in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. His research area is in sociolinguistics in the Uyghur region, and his research interests include language contact, language attitudes, language use and identity politics. He has published several journal articles, book chapters on these topics, starting in 2001.

Bradley Jardine : Art as resistance: Role of Central Asian protest art in contesting China's policies in Xinjiang

Bradley Jardine is Managing Director of the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and coauthor of the book 'Backlash: China's Struggle for Influence in Central Asia,' published by Oxford University Press. He is a former fellow at the Wilson Center and served as editor of The Moscow Times (2016-2018) in Russia. His work has appeared in Globalizations, Central Asian Survey, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Europe-Asia Studies, among others.

Agnieszka Kubal: Mobilising human rights and resistance - Ukrainian media, lawyers and accountability in war

Agnieszka is Associate Professor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), Law Faculty and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. She completed her DPhil at University of Oxford (2011). Upon post-doctoral spells at International Migration Institute (Oxford), CSLS (Oxford) and Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard), she was based at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at UCL, where she held an Associate Professorship in Sociology.

Agnieszka's primary research interest is in human rights in everyday life, particularly on legal consciousness and comparative legal cultures, using ethnographic and qualitative methods to explore these issues. Her work has a particular regional focus on Eastern Europe and Russia.

Dani Madrid-Morales: Russo-Chinese narrative alignment in external propoganda channels

Dani Madrid-Morales is a Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication at the School of Journalism, Media, and Communication of the University of Sheffield. He studies global political communication, with a focus on the impact of new digital technologies on the production of State-sponsored news, global public opinion, and misinformation in the Global South, particularly in Kenya and South Africa.

His most recent book, co-edited with Herman Wasserman, is Disinformation in the Global South (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). He is also Co-Lead of the Disinformation Research Cluster at the University of Sheffield, and co-founder of disinfoafrica.network. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication from City University of Hong Kong and MA degrees in International Relations from Free University of Berlin (Germany), and in East Asian Studies from Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). Before pursuing an academic career, he worked as a broadcast journalist covering world affairs.

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Nurseit Niyazbekov: Russian anti-war resistance among Russian citizens in exile following 2022 military mobilization

Nurseit Niyazbekov (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He undertakes research and consulting for various international media and think tanks in the areas of post-communist transitions, democratization, Central Asian state-building and protest mobilization. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Michigan and Sciences PO.

Nurseit obtained his PhD and MSc degrees in Politics and Sociology from the University of Oxford.

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Hanna Oliinyk: Mobillizing human rights and resistance: Ukrainian media, lawyers and accountability in war

Hanna Oliinyk is a Researcher in the Sociology of Human Rights for the UKRI-funded 'Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia' (HuRiEE) project and a DPhil student at Oxford University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She holds an MA in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics from University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2022) and an MA in Political Science from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2016). She holds an ESRC grant for doctoral training (2025–2028) and was awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship (2021–2022).

Her research interests span the sociology of human rights, memory politics, democratic transitions in post-communist countries, and cognitive warfare. Hanna also has diverse professional experience, including consulting for NGOs, research institutions, and media organisations.

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Natalia Ryzhova: Patient choice on the move - Digital platforms, social media and self-medication

Natalia is affiliated with the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University (Czech Republic). Currently (April 2025 – May 2026), she is a visiting researcher at Ruhr University Bochum. From 2019 to 2022, she was a researcher in the project “Sinophone Borderlands: Interaction at the Edges” (Palacký University; supported by the European Regional Development Fund).

As an economist who values anthropological perspectives, Natalia focuses on post-socialist transformation and lagging economic development. She has studied cross-border economic migration and practices such as shuttle trade, Russia–China smuggling, and the Chinese presence in agriculture in the Russian Far East. Most strands of her research stem from an interest in the relationship between centres and peripheries in a post-socialist context, particularly as these relationships pertain to everyday life.

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Vaclav Stetka: Unpacking the Impact of Russian Disinformation in Eastern Europe - A comparative study of Poland, Romania and Serbia

Václav Štětka is Professor of Media and Political Communication at Loughborough University. His research sits at the crossroads between media and democracy, exploring the role of media in the rise of polarization, populism and illiberalism, as well as contemporary challenges to media freedom and pluralism, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. He has been long-term contributor to several international research projects and networks, including Digital News Report (University of Oxford) and Media Pluralism Monitor (European University Institute, Florence). He is the author of The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies (Palgrave, 2024, with S.Mihlej). His most recent project, funded by the UKRI, concerns the perception and impact of Russian disinformation in Eastern Europe (2025).

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Koen Slootmaeckers: Caught in the middle? Anxieties of belonging and integration among queer Russian immigrants in Serbia

Koen Slootmaeckers is a Reader in International Politics at the Department of International Politics at City St George’s, University of London. He has a multidisciplinary background and engages in work that sees to understand the international political sociology of the Other.

His award-winning research focusses on gender and sexuality politics in Europe and is particularly interested in analysing hierarchies within the international system. More specifically, Koen has studied the EU accession of Serbia and how this process affects LGBT politics and activism.

Koen is the author of "Coming in: Sexual politics and EU accession in Serbia (Manchester University Press, 2023; winner of 2025 EUSA Best Book Prize) and his work has been widely published, including a (co-)edited volume ‘EU Enlargement and Gay Politics’ (Palgrave 2016; with Heleen Touquet and Peter Vermeersch), and articles in, amongst others, International Political Sociology, East European Politics, Politics, Contemporary Southeastern Europe, and Europe-Asia Studies.

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Ilya Yablokov: Russo-Chinese narrative alignment in external propoganda channels

Ilya’s research interests are the state disinformation strategies in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the Russian government, as well as the sociology of news production in Russia. As Lecturer in Digital Journalism and Disinformation and founder of the University of Sheffield’s Disinformation Research cluster Ilya studies how the Kremlin uses mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories to shape social cohesion and influence public opinion across Russia and beyond.

After the war in Ukraine started, Ilya explored the support required by Russian media professionals and ways of resisting Kremlin-led disinformation. Ilya currently mentors several grassroots initiatives that explore and combat Kremlin-led computational propaganda and supports media initiatives to make Russian exiled media more sustainable and capable of negotiating state-led disinformation.

Ilya’s most recent monograph Russia Today and Conspiracy Theories: People, Power, Politics on RT (with Precious Chatterje-Doody) explores how Russian international broadcaster uses traditional and new media environments to spread disinformation on subnational, national and international levels. This work was spawned by Ilya’s previous research into conspiracy theories in Russia. His monograph Fortress Russia: conspiracy theories in the post-Soviet world (Polity, 2018) studied how political elites in post-Soviet Russia use conspiracy theories for political purposes and to boost social cohesion under Vladimir Putin. Its Russian version had three editions and was included in a longlist of best non-fiction booksof 2020.

Currently, Ilya is working on a monograph about the Kremlin’s strategic disinformation narratives. Ilya has published research in leading academic journals in the field of media and Russian studies, including Journalism, European Journal of Communication, Russian Review, Politics, Participations and Democratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. Ilya’s media appearances include CNN, BBC World Service, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Politico, Eurozine , Al-Jazeera, Meduza, Open Democracy Russia, The Moscow Times and The Conversation.

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Bekzod Zakirov: Cultural Narratives and Media Framing - China’s Economic Presence in Central Asia

Bekzod (PhD) is the Director of the Center for Policy Research and Outreach (CPRO) at Westminster International University in Tashkent. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Tokyo, where he specialized in political economy of economic decision making in Russia and China. His research focuses on bridging academia, industry, and government to drive impactful policy changes in Uzbekistan and the broader Central Asian region.

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Artistic Fellows

Keti Chukhrov: Staging and Filming of the dramatic poem Metropoema

Keti Chukhrov is a guest professor in Philosophy of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. She was guest professor at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, in 2022-2023 and 2024-2025. In 2023-2024 she was a Tage Danielsson guest professor at the Linkoping University. Until November 2022 she worked as a professor at the School of Philosophy & Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). In 2012-2017 she was the head of Theory and Research department at the National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow. In 2017-2019 she has been a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow in UK, Wolverhampton University.

Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European Un-ty, 2011), and Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010). Her research interests and publications deal with 1. Philosophy of performativity 2. Сomparative epistemologies and political economies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies 3. Art as the Institute of global Contemporaneity. She authored the film plays “Afghan-Kuzminki” (2013), “Love-machines” (2013), “Communion”(2016), Undead (2022) which were featured at the Bergen Assembly (2013), the Specters of Communism (James Gallery, NY, 2015), the Ljubljana Triennial U-3 (2016, cur. Z. Badovinac, B. Groys), (Steirischer Herbst 2022). etc. Her latest video-play “Undead” was premiered at the Steirischer Herbst 2022 show “War in the Distance”.

Shona Illingworth: Art, Peace and the Future of War

Shona is an artist filmmaker whose major works take the form of immersive gallery based multi-screen video and multi-channel sound installation. Her work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with emerging neuropsychological models of memory and amnesia, critical approaches to memory studies, media sociology and human rights law) with socially engaged practice. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with shows at the Imperial War Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Bologna; FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool; UNSW Galleries, Sydney and the Wellcome Collection, London.

She has received commissions from Film and Video Umbrella, Hayward Gallery, London, and Channel 4 Television. Solo exhibitions include the Bahrain National Museum 2020 and The Power Plant, Toronto, 2021. Shona was shortlisted for the 2016 Jarman Award and is an Imperial War Museum Associate, Trustee of Project Art Works and sits on the editorial board of Digital War (digital-war.org).

Aurelia Mihai: Liquid matter / Flowing stories

Aurelia Mihai is a visual artist and filmmaker, who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (Profs. Valie EXPORT and Jürgen Klauke). From 2009 to 2021 she was a professor at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany.

In her research-based, cross-media artistic practice and her films, which blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, Aurelia Mihai frequently explores built or imagined monuments, reconsidering their significance and contemporary socio-cultural value.

Aurelia Mihai is the recipient of numerous prizes and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including MNAC (National Museum for Contemporary Art) Bucharest, Rumania, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, “The Worldly House“, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012), Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2005), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (2008), Bruno House of Arts, Czech Republic (2006), Futura, Prague, Czech Republic (2009), Landesgalerie Linz, Austria (2011), Salzburg Museum, Austria (2013), MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (2016), Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Ittinger Museum, Switzerland (2016), Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Falckenberg Collection (2019), Museum Cinema, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2019), Les Abattoirs - Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France (2024), MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rom, Italy (2025).

Natalia Pershina: Carnival of the Monsters

Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (artist name Gluklya) lives and works in Amsterdam.
Gluklya is considered as one of the pioneers of feminist performance after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.She is working with installations, texts, videos, watercolours, performances, workshops , interventions to the political demonstrations and conceptual clothing.

Gluklya navigates the complex interplay between personal experience and political
realities, weaving narratives of marginalised communities :garment workers, migrants, caregivers —into various art productions and social activities.At the 56th Venice Biennale Gluklya presented forty-three Clothes for Demonstration Against False Election Of Vladimir Putin (2011 – 2015) in the exhibition All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor. The installation documents hopes, dreams and traumas of people who went into the streets of St-Petersburg and Moscow to demonstrate against the oppressive government. From 2019 to 2022 in the context of her research Two natures of Colonialism: Russian and European’ / Lives and work of oppressed women, Gluklya visited Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan.

Based on this research, she produced a body of work and an exhibition titled To Those Who Have No Time to Play. (Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2022–23).

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