This episode follows a conversation with curator Eva Khachatryan about how artistic practice responds to the pressures and uncertainties of the present moment. Through her reflections on working across shifting political, social, and cultural terrains, the episode traces how artists and cultural workers navigate responsibility, fatigue, and the search for new forms of engagement.

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This episode features three voices from Central Asia and Ukraine whose practices center on memory, language, and the politics of knowledge.

Alima Tokmergenova works through research, education, and collective practice in Bishkek, developing new ways to speak about local art and building spaces where people can learn, read, and create together.

Katya Buchatska turns to sculpture, installation, and performance to navigate life during a full-scale war, using art as a form of witnessing, resilience, and connection.

Their stories intersect around the need to invent new languages for shared histories, and to imagine futures that resist erasure and isolation.

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This conversation follows two artists from Central Asia.

Dariya Temirkhan traces her path from academic painting to collage, reflects on colonial memory in Kazakhstan, and builds a digital alter ego that speaks to a new Qazaq-speaking generation.

Intizor Otaniyozova examines statelessness, borders, and the limits of the nation-state through film and writing, questioning who gets to belong in the region.

Together, their stories open a broader look at decolonization, shifting identities, and the search for more honest ways of understanding the past and imagining what comes next.

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Photo of Dariya Sabina Khorramdel 

This episode highlights two artists from Uzbekistan — Zumrad Mirzalieva and Munisa Kholkhujaeva. Their work spans photography, moving image, textiles, and research-based practice.

In episode Zumrad Mirzaliyeva reflects on mentorship, collaborative structures, and the challenges of building an art scene with limited resources, while Munisa Kholkhujaeva focuses on fear as an ispiration, and non-human viewpoints in her work. Their experiences at the [Dis]Solutions: Decolonial Encounters residency reveal how slower, exchange-driven formats can strengthen regional ties and support new artistic approaches.

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Photo of Zumrad by Joe Habben, (Fabrica Research Centre)

This episode follows three artists — Amassia Niziblian from Armenia, Ana Kun from Romania, and Sopo Kashakashvili from Georgia.

Amassia Niziblian explores inherited trauma and cultural continuity through multimedia work, Ana Kun focuses on mental health, ecology, food politics, and communal care, while Sopo Kashakashvili traces migrant experiences through site-specific installations and oral histories. Together, their stories build a conversation about how artists create structures of solidarity that challenge rigid systems and open new ways of relating to one another.

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This episode features Latvian artist Inga Erdmane and Estonian artist Jaanus Samma, who examine how history, identity, and power continue to shape the post-Soviet region. Erdmane speaks about working with archives,, and the overlooked “grey zones” of society, while Samma reflects on traditional craft, historical research, and the politics embedded in cultural symbols.

Their trip to Central Asia during the [Dis]Solutions: Decolonial Encounters residency becomes a lens for comparing how different countries rewrite their past and build new national narratives.

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Photo of Inga by Kristīne Briede

Photo of Jaanus by Mari Volens

In this episode of [Dis]Solutions Podcast Moldovan photographer Ramin Mazur talks about Moldova’s fragile identity, the quiet power of propaganda, and why art has to break out of its bubbles to stay real. Ukranian-Romanian artist Evghenia Gritscu reflects on migration, hybrid identity, and the emotional cost of building “home” wherever you land.

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In this episode, two artists from Central Asia talk about identity, community, and the courage it takes to create against all odds. Nazira Karimi revisits her family’s fragmented past to understand what it means to belong in a region marked by migration and colonial pressure. Nurperi Orunbaeva shares how a fight for justice pushed her into art, and how her work now challenges forced silence and patriarchy.

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Photo of Nazira Karimi by Daniyar Jussupov

New episode of the [Dis]Solutions podcast brings together two artists who navigate war, memory, and migration through their work.

Ukranian artist Inga Levi reflects on what it means to listen instead of represent, to rebuild identity while her country fights for peace.

Lithuanian artist Marija Nemchenko follows the threads of migration through her own family history. Together, they reveal how creativity survives even when the ground beneath shifts.

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The first episode of the [Dis]Solutions Podcast traces the origins of the [Dis]Solutions – Decolonial Encounters project, organized by Goethe-Institut Ukraine and Goethe-Institut Kasachstan.

What began as a mapping of post- and decolonial practices soon grew into a cross-border residency program connecting 19 artists from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the Baltic states.

We hear from project manager Franziska Höfler and co-curators Kamila Smagulova, Solvita Krese, and Lia Dostlieva about the questions that shaped the project, why its very name carries meaning, and how residencies were designed to create genuine space for exchange — without pressure to produce, but with the hope of sparking lasting collaborations.

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