Ambasada Kultury

16/01/2026

Moving forward! The international curatorial art project Sense of Safety, implemented by Ambasada Kultury and Antiwarcoalition.art in collaboration with YermilovCentre, has been shortlisted for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in the Innovative Curating category.

The project has advanced to the third round, the final stage of selection, and is among the four leading projects in this nomination.

We warmly congratulate the curatorial team:
Tatiana Kochubinska
Aleksander Komarov
Maryna Koneva
Antonina Stebur
Maxim Tyminko

We also congratulate all participating artists and the wider project team.

Our sincere thanks go to the partners who made this project possible:
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
The Danish Cultural Institute
Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung
The Nordic Council of Ministers, Goethe Institute Ukraine & Nürnberger Haus, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Ukraine
Grynyov Art Collection
Stedley Art Foundation

For us, Sense of Safety became more than a project: it was a collective process, a shared space of care and trust, and a clear gesture of solidarity in a time of vulnerability.

A look back through photographs by and Vikoriia Yakimenko, the final stage is ahead.

24/12/2025

Дарагія сябры і партнёры,

дзякуй за 2025-й: за давер, падтрымку і разам пройдзены шлях. Мы умацавалі Амбасаду культуры, стратэгічна развівалі сябе і наш праект , рэалізавалі больш за 15 рэзідэнцый у 6 гарадах. Напрыканцы года мы атрымалі навіну, якая нас шчыра парадавала: міжнародны праект Sense of Safety увайшоў у шорт-ліст Дзяржаўнай прэміі імя Тараса Шаўчэнкі ў катэгорыі «Інавацыйныя куратарскія праекты» 🤍

Наперадзе пашырэнне геаграфіі, глыбокія рэзідэнцыйныя праграмы, развіццё Open Muzej і новыя яскравыя праекты.

Жадаем вам у новым годзе спакою, цяпла, добрых навін і момантаў, якія даюць адчуванне цеплыні і падтрымкі. Няхай будзе больш святла - у працы, у сустрэчах і ў жыцці.

З любоўю і павагай,
каманда Ambasada Kultury

Dear friends and partners ✨

Thank you for 2025: for trust, support, and our shared path. We strengthened the Cultural Embassy, developed Open Muzej strategically, and held over 15 residencies in 6 cities.

At year’s end, we got delightful news: Sense of Safety project .art, made the shortlist for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in «Innovative Curatorial Projects.» Heartfelt congrats to the whole team and curators!

Ahead: geographic expansion, deeper residencies, Open Muzej growth, and vibrant new projects.

We wish you peace, warmth, good news, and moments of true support in the new year. May there be more light: in work, meetings, and life.

With love and respect,
The Ambasada Kultury team

17/12/2025

Important news! 🌞

The international project Sense of Safety, managed by Ambasada Kultury in collaboration with YermilovCentre, has been shortlisted for the Shevchenko National Prize — Ukraine’s main state award in culture and the arts — in the Innovative Curating nomination.

We warmly congratulate our curators and entire project team, and of course participating artists. We also thank everyone who contributed to making this project possible.

For all of us, Sense of Safety became more than a project: it was a collective effort, a shared space of care and trust, and a strong gesture of solidarity in a time of vulnerability.

сuratorial team:
Tatiana Kochubinska
Aleksander Komarov
Maryna Koneva
Antonina Stebur
Maxim Tyminko

Also we are grateful to all partners who made this project possible:
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
The Danish Cultural Institute
Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung
The Nordic Council of Ministers, Goethe Institute Ukraine & Nürnberger Haus, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Ukraine
Grynyov Art Collection
Stedley Art Foundation

How it was → Antiwarcoalition.art 🫶🏻

29/10/2025

And one more speaker to meet. Dzina Zhuk is an artist, techno-politics researcher, and writer. Her work spans para-fiction texts, experimental infrastructures, and situations addressing digital conditions, colonial dependencies, and fragile solidarities. She will share a new para-fiction piece — “Scene: Walking/listening/assembling underneath ‘Druzhba’ oil pipeline…” (2025) — alongside experiences with the cooperative the School of Algorithmic Solidarity (2022–ongoing), the co-organized Work Hard! Play Hard! (Minsk, 2016–2020), and the recent Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions (2025).

Moderator: Mariam Yeghiazaryan

🗓 ONLINE | October 30, 14:00–16:00 CET
Register via link in bio. Participation by registration only.

This project is supported by the Danish Cultural Institute through the New Democracy Fund.

28/10/2025

Continuing our speaker spotlight. Marina Naprushkina works at the intersection of visual art, pedagogy, and activism. Founder of Office for Anti-Propaganda (2007) and co-founder of Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit (2013), she focuses on community self-organization and collaborative, research-driven formats. At the event she will discuss What are our collective dreams? (on gender, labor, migration) and Birds with the People (on protest histories and “peripheral” practices in rural Belarus).

Moderator: Mariam Yeghiazaryan

🗓 ONLINE | October 30, 14:00–16:00 CET
Register via link in bio. Participation by registration only.

This project is supported by the Danish Cultural Institute through the New Democracy Fund.

28/10/2025

Meet the speakers of Re-Lentus 2025 — Belarus 🫶🏻

Today: Viktoryia Hrabennikava .f.ranz — a Belarusian visual artist, q***r-feminist activist, and culture researcher. Her practice addresses representation, labor, non-binary narratives, and mental health.

Recent works include the game-based Wedding Game and the performance-reading Our q***r is uncomfortably political (Zachęta , Warsaw).

Moderator: Mariam Yeghiazaryan

🗓 ONLINE | October 30, 14:00–16:00 CET
Register via link in bio.
🌀Participation by registration only

This project is supported by the Danish Cultural Institute through the New Democracy Fund.

18/04/2025

What we’ve seen so far is a meaningful exchange — artists in exile sharing their experiences through exhibitions, performances, and conversations that reflect on memory, resistance, and the search for belonging.
📷 This album captures what’s unfolded so far — the exhibition, performances, talks, workshops, and moments of presence that have shaped the first half of the program.
Endless thanks to everyone who made this possible: artists, curators, audiences, partners, tech teams, and all who contributed with care, courage, and creativity.

Ph. Siarhei Balai (part 1)

The project PerspAKTIV is implemented by RAZAM, Ambasada Kultury and Galeria Miejska Arsenał with financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office.

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17/04/2025

What we’ve seen so far is a meaningful exchange — artists in exile sharing their experiences through exhibitions, performances, and conversations that reflect on memory, resistance, and the search for belonging.

📷 This album captures what’s unfolded so far — the exhibition, performances, talks, workshops, and moments of presence that have shaped the first half of the program.

Endless thanks to everyone who made this possible: artists, curators, audiences, partners, tech teams, and all who contributed with care, courage, and creativity.

The project PerspAKTIV is implemented by RAZAM, Ambasada Kultury, and Galeria Miejska Arsenał with financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office.

RAZAM e.V. - Belarusische Gemeinschaft Galeria Miejska Arsenałl Auswärtiges Amt



Ph. Siarhei Balai

26/03/2025

Belarus as a global case: art and activism in conditions of risk — серыя падзей пра сучаснае беларускае мастацтва ў эміграцыі, што пройдзе ў Берліне з 11 па 25 красавіка 2025 года на дзвюх пляцоўках: Ballhaus Prinzenallee (Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin) і Hotel Continental – Art Space in Exile (Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin). У праграме — выстава, публічныя дыскусіі, канцэрты, перформансы і майстар-класы, прысвечаныя мастацтву як сродку рэфлексіі і дзеяння ва ўмовах рызыкі, вымушанай міграцыі і пошуку новай формы выказвання.

У праграме:
– дыскусія пра ролю рэзідэнцый для мастакоў у небяспецы
– куратарская экскурсія па выставе
– танцавальны праект Rimma and me
– перформанс Глеба Кавальскага
– канцэрт WTBSK (Sveta Ben & Sergey Novitsky)
– live-сэт ад Madmapper
– майстар-класы па мазаіцы, папяровых кветках і размовы з аўтарамі

Таксама адна з падзеяў — калектыўная выстава «Кропка Сходу / Vanishing Point», фінальны вынік міжнароднага праекта PerspAKTIV, які аб’яднаў беларускіх творцаў, што працуюць у Германіі, Польшчы і іншых краінах. У выставе ўдзельнічаюць: Аляксандр Бельскі, Разаліна Бусел, Аляксандр Кот-Зайцаў, Вольга Савіч, Варвара Суднік і Саша Вялічка. Куратаркі — Вольга Архіпава і Эвеліна Мурашкевіч.

Праект паказвае, як беларускае мастацтва пераасэнсоўвае паняцці памяці, дома, супраціву і трансгранічнасці, спалучаючы асабісты досвед з глабальным кантэкстам.

Падрабязная праграма ў бія 📝

21/03/2025

17/03/2025

Nazar Golianych examines economic life in the wake of destruction, challenging the conventional notion of reconstruction. Through a lens of negative archaeology, he explores how violence doesn’t just disrupt economies — it reshapes them entirely.

The study of Mariupol’s economic collapse under occupation reveals how infrastructure destruction and resource deprivation are tools of economic colonization. What emerges is a fragmented system — bartering, black markets, forced dependencies—where survival is conditioned by control.

📖 Read more in AWC Journal – Issue 1