‘The Prettiest Beetle of Eastern Europe. Book of Colours’ (Найкрасивіший жук України. Книга кольорів) is a hybrid visual/literary experiment presented … More
Tag: trauma studies
Ten Faded Faces (2026)
Multichannel video installation What remains of one’s history when the archive is lost? What remains of one’s memory when the … More
Book of Long Objects (2023)
Twenty stories about three grandmothers (with pictures) This collection of images and fairytale-like short stories, where each narrative is tied … More
In your region, even mountains are fake (2023)
Screen printing on textile (1,30*6 m), installation Heavy industrialization and collectivization under Soviet rule not only took millions of lives … More
Soviet Anthropocene 1933 (2022)
Textile sculptures, installation. This project aims to explore the connection between genocides and ecocides, looking into the notion of the … More
Sweet Waters Broke (2021, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, Olga Skliarska)
Photographic triptychs, diasec. This project is built upon memoirs by people who as children had experienced deportations and life in … More
Project of the Memorial to the victims of the Holodomor in Melitopol, Ukraine (2021; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
The concept of our proposal for the Memorial to the victims of the Holodomor in Melitopol, Ukraine is based on … More
So that no one would see (2021; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
Performance documentation; bones, soil. …it needs to be boiled alive in nine waters;In the ninth it should be boiled until … More
Licking War Wounds (2016 – 2021; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
This tank-shaped salt lamp was purchased from a souvenir shop in Bakhmut in late 2016. Bakhmut (formerly Artemivsk) is a … More
Black on Prussian Blue (2020; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
photographic prints, video loops This project is a reconstruction based on the family album of a Wehrmacht soldier aiming to … More
“I still feel sorry when I throw away food – Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor.” (2018; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
Ink and pencil on toned paper, fragments of found photographs. Series of 44. Post-photographic research, which explores traces of a … More
I Lied in Visa Center (2018)
The starting point of this project was an anonymous inscription on the toilet wall in Martin-Gropius-Bau, which said “I lied … More
The cynocephali of Donbas (2017)
Lia (32) and Andrij (33), a cynocephali couple from Donetsk The myth about dog-headed people (“cynocephali”) inhabiting Eastern Ukrainian territories … More
298 (2017)
“298” was an 8 hours long performance during which the artist and the volunteers made 298 dolls which symbolise each … More
Reconstruction of Memory (2016; curatorial; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
The Russian occupation of Crimea and the military invasion into Eastern Ukraine forced a million and a half people (according … More