Residency of Jana Shostak

hosted by Berliner Festspiele

Participating countries:

  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • The Netherlands
  • Applied Arts
  • Visual Arts

Period

  • From 10-05-2023 to 20-07-2023
Generation #1

Website

Address

Berlin
Germany

Project summary

Jana Shostak's presence at the TheaterTreffen festival in Berlin, the Spring Festival in Utrecht and the Santarcangelo Festival in Italy will be an opportunity to hear the voice of an exceptional artist who intertwines human solidarity and professional responsibility in her artistic practice. Jana combines activist work and visual practice, and is currently deeply involved in exhausting daily volunteer work. The artist's activities on all three levels (artistic/activist/educational) are a bold reaction to the world we are living in. Jana's actions, although in the field of art, aim at real political change. She treats them as a tool to demand for example political sanctions towards the Belarusian government.
© Tomasz Gzell

Artist

Jana Shostak

Biography: Jana Shostak - Polish/Belorusian multimedia artist who has become an activist since 2020. Since March 2022, she has been co-creating the "peace stewardess" group on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where they inform / transport people, and since the outbreak of the Belarusian revolution, the "partisan" civic movement, helping victims of repression and those forced to flee from Belarus to Poland. He believes in the effectiveness of art, solidarity, the power of cooperation in culture. Doctor of UAP, laureate of Polityka's Passports. Since 2016, he has been consciously using mass media as a platform to disseminate his art/activism activities. Every day at 6:00 p.m. (until the end of the revolution and one day longer) she co-creates the temporary memorial One Minute of Scream for Belarus.
Contact: jana.shostak@gmail.com
Website: https://de-de.facebook.com/jana.szostak/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/heart.is.for.art/ https://pl-pl.facebook.com/jana.szostak/ https://issuu.com/dzmuhawec/docs/jana_shostak_-_portfolio_english_
Work: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/9664/newcomers-poland-migration-art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMxA1T9IMik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XzEab1bMO8

Participating festivals

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