Lia Dostlieva & Andrii Dostliev
As artists and cultural anthropologists, we focus in our practice on collective memory, mass traumas in visual culture, conflicting identities, and decolonial practices in Eastern Europe. We work across a wide range of media, including video, photography, installations, durational performances, and textile sculptures.
Lia Dostlieva (1984) is an artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist. She was a participant in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. She has exhibited her work in numerous international institutions, including the Malta Biennale; Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany); Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); Kolumba Museum (Cologne, Germany); Ludwig Museum (Budapest, Hungary); the National Gallery of Art (Vilnius, Lithuania); the Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia); the National Museum of Fine Arts (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); and the Latvian National Museum of Art (Riga, Latvia), among others. She is a member of the RUTA association and a co-founder of the Young Network TransEurope at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Andrii Dostliev is a Ukrainian-Polish artist, curator, and photography researcher based between Berlin and Poznań. Andrii’s primary areas of interest are memory, trauma, decolonial practices in Eastern Europe, gay history of Ukraine, and the limits of photography as a medium. Andrii’s art practice works across photography, video, drawing, performance, installations, and book publishing. Former visiting fellow at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna) and artist-in-residence at Central European University (Budapest) and Akademie der Künste (Berlin). Participant of the Ukrainian National Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024.




