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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.

Xanten

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.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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