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Natalka Diachenko

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As a documentary photographer and videographer, Natalka Diachenko approaches questions of cultural heritage, archiving, marginalized history, and the relation between the personal and intimate and global historical narratives.

She is a member of the self-organized art initiative DE NE DE. Founded in 2015, the initiative unites artists, historians and architects intending to study and preserve the
inconvenient and non-obvious Ukrainian cultural heritage and cultural heritage of Soviet period in Ukraine. The group has a focus on architecture and public art, which is under the threat of destruction.

Recent exhibitions of Natalka Diachenko are: Out of Sight (Gallery Stadtpark, Austria, 2022), You’ve got to be here! (Lokal_30, Poland, 2022), First impression (Braga, Portugal, 2022), Online exhibition Trust Cut (Ukraine, 2022), The Service of Strange Services (Kyiv, 2021), ДЕЗЕЛЕНІЗАЦІЯ / DE-GREENING (Kyiv, 2019), Here again (Mala Gallery Arsenal, Kyiv, 2019), Festival Construction (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2018) etc.

Natalka Diachenko was born in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and moved to Kyiv in 2006, and has been living there since the start of a full-scale invasion of russian troops on the territory of Ukraine. As a resident of the program Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr she is based in Mülheim an der Ruhr from January to July 2023.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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