|
Issues, Shop, Subscribe, Events, Info, Donate |
Solomiya No. 6 — State of the Nation
Contributors
Aysel Akhundova, Yurii Boyko, Colette Desmier, Andrii Fert, Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Borys Medvedik, Olha Marusyn, Beatrice Moumdjian, Yana Musiychuk, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Asia Pavlenko, Salt Salome, Rahul Sharma, Max Svitlo, Sebastian Wells
Specs
13,8×21,6 cm
140 pages
ISBN 978-3-00-088300-2
Published in September, 2026
by Solomiya Collective
Aysel Akhundova, Yurii Boyko, Colette Desmier, Andrii Fert, Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Borys Medvedik, Olha Marusyn, Beatrice Moumdjian, Yana Musiychuk, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Asia Pavlenko, Salt Salome, Rahul Sharma, Max Svitlo, Sebastian Wells
Specs
13,8×21,6 cm
140 pages
ISBN 978-3-00-088300-2
Published in September, 2026
by Solomiya Collective
The reader State of the Nation reflects multiple experiences of not belonging in the nationally prescribed sense, and instead explores the heights and abysses of the in-between: through movement and migration, through doubts about the prospects of the war, through a longing for forms of political subjectivity that are not organised along national lines. It questions traditions that have long served as carriers of national sentiment in Germany since the Nazi era; reflects on the relationship between decoloniality and nationalism in the contemporary art world; uses counter-mapping to understand the political imagination of ancient Mediterranean societies; searches for possibilities of mini-solidarities between Estonians and Russophone Estonians in Narva; delves into new forms of artistic mentorship that help to escape the shackles of the postcolonial era in Ghana; and playfully reflects on the Minute of Silence in Ukraine—a nationwide ritual recently enshrined in law.
Solomiya No. 5 — After Now
Contributors
atelienormalno, Khulud Alharthi, Mohammed Al-Qadhi, Commercial Public Art, Anna Dziapshipa, Yuliia Elias, Alina El Assadi, Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Tetiana Kyselova, Dariia Kuzmych, Darja Lukjanenko, Oleksii Minko, Anastasiia Omelianiuk, Vladyslav Plisetskyi, Volodymy Prylutskyi, Bojan Stojčić, Starman, Illia Todurkin, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
Specs
20x26 cm
144 pages
ISBN 978-3-948174-35-4
Published in November, 2025
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
atelienormalno, Khulud Alharthi, Mohammed Al-Qadhi, Commercial Public Art, Anna Dziapshipa, Yuliia Elias, Alina El Assadi, Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Tetiana Kyselova, Dariia Kuzmych, Darja Lukjanenko, Oleksii Minko, Anastasiia Omelianiuk, Vladyslav Plisetskyi, Volodymy Prylutskyi, Bojan Stojčić, Starman, Illia Todurkin, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
Specs
20x26 cm
144 pages
ISBN 978-3-948174-35-4
Published in November, 2025
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
Solomiya No. 5—After Now reflects on hope and freedom not as a triumph, but as a complex, often compromised condition, entangled in inequality, shaped by trauma, and co-opted by power. By gathering voices from Yemen to Ukraine, from Georgia to Germany, we turn our attention to the present conditions shaping the paths that futures may follow. With contributions from 21 artists, journalists and scientists, we navigate the deadlocks of communication and the paradox of imagining a post-war future within ongoing war. They hold space for doubt, contradiction, and the possibility of being wrong—through testimonies of soldiers and veterans, and expressions of embodied experiences of dancers, imagined chess figures, dopamine supermen, astronauts, and dried watermelons.
Solomiya No. 4 — The Environmental Issue (out of print)
Contributors
Kateryna Aliinyk, Lisa Biletska, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Yana Kononova, Katia Motyleva, Oleh Perkowsky, Oksana Semenik, Daria Svertilova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Jonathon Turnbull, Oleksii Vasyliuk, Iryna Zamuruieva
Specs
13,8 × 21,6 cm
100 pages
ISBN 978-3-948174-27-9
Published in February, 2025
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
Kateryna Aliinyk, Lisa Biletska, Dmytro Chepurnyi, Yana Kononova, Katia Motyleva, Oleh Perkowsky, Oksana Semenik, Daria Svertilova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Jonathon Turnbull, Oleksii Vasyliuk, Iryna Zamuruieva
Specs
13,8 × 21,6 cm
100 pages
ISBN 978-3-948174-27-9
Published in February, 2025
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
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?
Contributors
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
Specs
132 pages
23×31 cm
ISBN 978-3-948174-26-2
Published in March, 2024
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
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
Specs
132 pages
23×31 cm
ISBN 978-3-948174-26-2
Published in March, 2024
by SHIFT BOOKS and Solomiya Collective
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 (out of print)
Contributors
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
Specs
132 pages
23×31 cm
ISBN 978-3-948174-19-4
Published in March, 2023
by SHIFT BOOKS
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
Specs
132 pages
23×31 cm
ISBN 978-3-948174-19-4
Published in March, 2023
by SHIFT BOOKS
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 (out of print)
Contributors
Christina Erturk, Sasha Kurmaz, Sonya Marian, Vsevolod Kazarin, Mykola Ridnyi, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
Specs
128 pages
23×31 cm
ISBN 978-3-00-072582-1
Published in July, 2022
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.
Order Solomiya Magazine
Directly From Our Stock
Orders from Ukraine
Orders from the UK
Orders from anywhere else
From Our Stockists
Ukraine
Germany
United States
Bulgaria
Netherlands
France
United Kingdom
Lithuania
Become our Stockist!
Events
Upcoming
September 4-6, 2026
Past
June 6, 2026
May 10, 2026
April 4, 2026
January 29, 2026
January 26, 2026
December 7, 2025
Solomiya No. 5 Roundtable
Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv
Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv
December 3, 2025
Launch of Solomiya No. 5
Otel’, Kyiv
Otel’, Kyiv
November 27, 2025
November 20, 2025
Information
Editorial Team
Vsevolod Kazarin (Kyiv)
Andrii Ushytskyi (Kyiv)
Ivanna Kozachenko (Kyiv)
Sebastian Wells (Berlin)
Art Direction
Peter Bünnagel, Anne-Lene Proff (Berlin)
Kollektiv Scrollan
Copy Editing
Odesa Varen (Berlin)
Social Media and Communications
Oleksii Havryliuk (Kyiv)
Events and Project Coordination
Maria Friede (Berlin/Kyiv)
Vsevolod Kazarin (Kyiv)
Andrii Ushytskyi (Kyiv)
Ivanna Kozachenko (Kyiv)
Sebastian Wells (Berlin)
Art Direction
Peter Bünnagel, Anne-Lene Proff (Berlin)
Kollektiv Scrollan
Copy Editing
Odesa Varen (Berlin)
Social Media and Communications
Oleksii Havryliuk (Kyiv)
Events and Project Coordination
Maria Friede (Berlin/Kyiv)
Solomiya (she/her) is a contemporary art collective offering a platform for experimental publishing, curating, and research. Founded in Kyiv in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she focuses on underrepresented discourses and subjective ideas, and connects cities and cultures across the globe. At the heart of the collective’s practice is the publication of the English-language printed magazine Solomiya. The collective also curates public programs and exhibitions, and produces works both by its members and in collaboration with artists, writers, collectives, and designers.
Reach out to us
If you are interested to contribute to Solomiya as an artist, collaborate as an institution or stock the magazine in your shop, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.
Partnerships
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.
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.
Contact
Donate
If you'd like to support our work, the easiest way is through a donation on Buy Me a Coffee.
If you prefer to send us money via a bank transfer, please click here.
Imprint
Responsible for the Content
Solomiya Collective NGO
Kyiv oblast
08700 Ukraine
hello@solomiyamag.com
Solomiya Collective NGO
Kyiv oblast
08700 Ukraine
hello@solomiyamag.com
Confidentiality and security are paramount values for Solomiya Collective and, consequently, we assume the commitment to guarantee the privacy of the User at all times and not to collect unnecessary information.
Find our entire Privacy Policy here