THE BILLBOARD
(Starters, September 2025)
An autofictional essay on “junkspace” in Kyiv, based on fieldwork in Ukraine and written collaboratively with Kyiv-based architect Anja Riabova (Understructures). The text was published in Starters, Tiny Cutlery’s magazine of new design storytelling.
SINNERMAN, SINNERMAN, WHERE YOU GONNA RUN TO?
(Temptress (Грішниця), issue 5, August 2025)
An interview with artist Nikita Kadan on his painting Shchekavytsia Hill (2025), addressing social prejudice, sex, and belief. I speak with Kadan about painting, working with sitters, and forms of eroticism that border on disaster. The conversation was published in Temptress (Грішниця), a feminist, queer-aligned art magazine exploring eroticism and the politics of desire, intimacy, and identity.
PHANTOM MUSEUM
(PIN–UP, issue 37 (F/W 2024/25), January 2025)
A text accompanying the eponymous installation made with artist Olga Gaidash on looted artifacts from Ukrainian cultural institutions. Originally published in the print Museum Issue of PIN–UP, the text provides context for our work, approached in a non-didactic, exploratory, and experimental manner, and was presented within The Museum Between the Square and the Palace: Warsaw Under Construction at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (24 Oct 2024–4 Jan 2025), the museum’s inaugural exhibition.
PHANTOM MUSEUM
(Zine, gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich; produced for The Museum Between the Palace and the Square: Warsaw Under Construction 16, 2024)
Phantom Museum is a zine designed by Daša Anosova and Olga Gaidash, released on the occasion of the exhibition The Museum Between the Palace and the Square: Warsaw Under Construction 16, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from 25 October 2024 to 5 January 2025.
The exhibition was curated by Fredi Fischli, Tomasz Fudala, Niels Olsen, and Natalia Sielewicz. With texts by Daša Anosova, Olya Gaidash, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, and Geraldine Tedder. Design by Teo Schifferli with Vivien Pöhls.
LIBRARY OF VISUAL PHENOMENA: COLLECTING THE UNPREDICTABLE
(V/A, 26 September 2023)
An interview with the founders of Biblioteka Naochnykh Yavyshch (Ukr. Бібліотека Наочних Явищ — Library of Visual Phenomena) on collecting vernacular image books. The Kyiv-based collection comprises over 600 handmade, often single-edition visual books, initiated by Olga Gaidash, Eugene Shimalsky, and Tasia Shpil and developed through flea markets, OLX listings, and Viber chats. The conversation reflects on the displacement of the archive, its relocation to Berlin, and the transformation of its originally intended Kyiv space into a site for humanitarian medical aid.
VLAD(A) & DAŠA: OCCUPY EVERYTHING
(V/A, 13 June 2023)
A conversation between Vlad(a) Vazheyevskyy and myself reflecting on six months of collaborative work across art, culture, and academia in London. The text discusses our takeover of PPV — Perverting the Power Vertical, a seminar and platform based at the FRINGE Centre for Social and Cultural Complexity at UCL, through which we critically engaged questions of decolonization, Russo-centrism, antifascism, feminism, pacifism, queer politics, and the politics of knowledge production in the so-called “global East.” Published in V/A.
OBERIH
(Publication, 2023)
A publication conceived as a fundraising project for people affected by the war in Ukraine. Edited, designed, and published by understructures — Daša Anosova, Timur Akhmetov, Vitya Glushchenko, Anna Riabova — Oberih has raised and donated over €40,000 to grassroots initiatives addressing the consequences of the war. The publication was produced with the initial support of LC-Queisser and Liste Art Fair Basel.
KYIV LODGE: THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
(Produktionhäuser, online, 21 March 2022)
A text written for an online project by Produktionhäuser. Written by Daša Anosova and Alex Lezhniuk, with art objects and photography by Alyona Tokovenko.
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