Solomiya No. 4 — The Environmental Issue
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Kateryna Aliinyk, Lisa Biletska, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Yana Kononova, Katia Motyleva, Oleh Perkowsky, Oksana Semenik, Daria Svertilova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Jonathon Turnbull, Oleksii Vasyliuk, Iryna Zamuruieva
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Kateryna Aliinyk, Lisa Biletska, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Yana Kononova, Katia Motyleva, Oleh Perkowsky, Oksana Semenik, Daria Svertilova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Jonathon Turnbull, Oleksii Vasyliuk, Iryna Zamuruieva
The first monothematic issue of Solomiya Magazine—The Environmental Issue—brings together a collection of artists and researchers reflecting and advocating on behalf of Ukraine's more-than-human communities and ecologies. In collaboration with the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network (UEHN)—an international collective of curators, artists, and scholars—we’ve created an issue that celebrates the richness and complexity of Ukrainian landscapes. This issue offers a diverse range of perspectives, amplifying voices that challenge the colonial, imperial, and extractive narratives that have long shaped external perceptions of Ukraine’s environment.
Solomiya No. 3 — The Last Issue?
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Alex Mashtaler, Asia Bazdyrieva, Beauty Studio Tripping, Commercial Public Art, Henrike Naumann, Ivanna Kozachenko, Lucy Zoria, Margarita Polovinko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin, Sebastian Wells, Maxim Dondyuk, SOC.I.A, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni
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Alex Mashtaler, Asia Bazdyrieva, Beauty Studio Tripping, Commercial Public Art, Henrike Naumann, Ivanna Kozachenko, Lucy Zoria, Margarita Polovinko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin, Sebastian Wells, Maxim Dondyuk, SOC.I.A, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni
The third issue of Solomiya is as desperate as it is full of love, beauty, courage, and an unsettling longing for “a journey, an escape, and freedom,” as Yevhen, a young soldier from Odesa, puts it in War Dreams, a poignant series of portraits by Italian photographers Caimi&Piccini. While raising questions about masculinity in war through the recent work of Vsevolod Kazarin, Alex Mashtaler’s yet unpublished photographs juxtapose the innocence of youth with the unforgiving harshness of reality—a reality shaped by Ukraine’s colonial past and a present challenged by ongoing militarization. While Ivanna Kozachenko and the artist collective Commercial Public Art dissect the spatial strategies of the architecture built by Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the writings of Lucy Zoria and Sebastian Wells offer diverse insights into the lived experiences of young Ukrainians abroad.
Solomiya No. 2 — The Means of Resistance
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Lesha Berezovskiy, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Alevtina Kakhidze, Ivanna Kozachenko, Livyj Bereh, Yuliia Manukian, Sasha Naselenko, Daniil Russov, Oleskandra Kalinichenko, Dima Tolkachov, Max Tsukan, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells, Vsevolod Kazarin, Emine Ziyatdinova
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Lesha Berezovskiy, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Alevtina Kakhidze, Ivanna Kozachenko, Livyj Bereh, Yuliia Manukian, Sasha Naselenko, Daniil Russov, Oleskandra Kalinichenko, Dima Tolkachov, Max Tsukan, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells, Vsevolod Kazarin, Emine Ziyatdinova
In the magazine’s second issue, we invite you to appreciate artworks that were created in Kherson despite the russian occupation; to read the stories of Ukrainians who had to flee the war twice—in 2014 and 2022; to engage in conversations that explore the concept of the heroic and the language of witnessing; and to highlight perspectives of Crimean Tatars that russia has been attempting to silence for many years. This issue brings together texts, artworks, and photographs from Daniil Russov, Oleksii (Lesha) Berezovskiy, Livyj Bereh, Alevtina Kakhidze, Sasha Naselenko, Oleksandra Kalinichenko and others. This issue, created in Kyiv and designed in Berlin, is a testament to resistance through the means of art.
Solomiya No. 1 — War but Art
Christina Erturk, Sasha Kurmaz, Sonya Marian, Vsevolod Kazarin, Mykola Ridnyi, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
In Solomiya’s very first issue, you will encounter some of those who grew up in an independent Ukraine and are paying a huge price for the European integration they seek. We invite you to meet young creatives from Kyiv and elsewhere who write, create and don’t stop self-expressing their identities through their fashion. Further, we show for the first time brandnew works by Sasha Kurmaz, who also created the cover motif. While Mykola Ridnyi’s iconic series “Blindspot” recalls the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, a protocol traces the lives of two young inhabitants from Bucha who survived the Russian occupation in 2022.
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Vsevolod Kazarin (Kyiv)
Andrii Ushytskyi (Kyiv)
Ivanna Kozachenko (Kyiv)
Sebastian Wells (Berlin)
Art Direction
Peter Bünnagel, Anne-Lene Proff (Berlin)
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Helena Melikov, Christian Dettler (Berlin)
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Vsevolod Kazarin (Kyiv)
Andrii Ushytskyi (Kyiv)
Ivanna Kozachenko (Kyiv)
Sebastian Wells (Berlin)
Art Direction
Peter Bünnagel, Anne-Lene Proff (Berlin)
Kollektiv Scrollan
Publisher
Helena Melikov, Christian Dettler (Berlin)
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As an independent magazine founded in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Solomiya is the result of an engaged, decolonial involvement of artists with their environment shaped by ongoing imperial aggression. Solomiya offers its readers profound, diverse and subjective perspectives on current realities and complex social issues in Ukraine and beyond, using a wide range of forms of expression from visual arts to text that entail personal experiences, emotional observations and intellectual discourses. Publishing annually and in English, unconventional design is at the core of its creation process conducted in both Kyiv and Berlin. Solomiya is printed vegan, shipped worldwide and stocked in all major European capitals.
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Our magazines would not have been possible without the support of the Akademie der Künste, Klaus Stemmler Foundation, IWM, Ukrainian Institute, Werkleitz Festival, IGEPA and Fedrigoni Paper. For the years 2024-2025, Solomiya Magazine is proud to be supported by WeTransfer’s Supporting Act Foundation. Help us with our mission, benefit from our network and feel free to contact us about possible partnerships.
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