Petition from Cultural Workers Against War
Open Letter
- To sign please go to: Change.org Signature List
- To contact us: culturalworkersagainstwar@gmail.com
We, cultural workers in Berlin and other places, raise our voices to state that we stand strong and firm with Ukraine. We protest against the ongoing and escalating Putin-led Russian aggression against the people living in Ukraine.
Putin's military invasion threatens millions of civilians, pensioners, care workers, children, and regular inhabitants. Putin's repression particularly targets the lives and health of political activists, the LGBTIQ+ community, cultural workers, journalists and other civilians as well as the exiled Belarusian opposition in Kyiv and in other Ukrainian cities. It targets us and our friends in order to destroy the tissue that keeps our communities connected and breathing.
Ukrainian territory has been violated by Russian aggression since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. The country has been pulled into a defensive war by Russia's incursion into Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, under the cover of so-called local separatist movements, beginning in 2014.
In these territories disappearances, kidnapping, torture and imprisonment reportedly take place. In previous moments of political destabilisation, like the Euromaidan uprisings in 2014 in Kyiv, cases of kidnapping and torture of journalists and activists have been documented.
Whoever has experienced the effect of this kind of repression through intimidation, torture and fear on our societies, like the Belarusian and Russian oppositional movements, knows: There is no invasion which is negotiable. There is no legitimation for repression and invasion. There is no degree of repression we can silently witness without being complicit.
We call on all our fellow cultural workers to raise their voices, to stretch their political empathy, to activate their political courage, to refresh their political memory and to stand up in support of our colleagues, friends, allies, and their (chosen) families.
As we stand together we work towards forming even stronger bonds and deeper alliances with each other. Let us, cultural workers, stand together, to put our weight on public opinion: We demand decisive and firm support of the people living in Ukraine.
The Undersigned
February 2022
To sign please go to
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To contact us:culturalworkersagainstwar@gmail.com
Signatures
Inga Zimprich, artist, Feminist Health Care Research Group
Sönke Hallmann, board member Flutgraben e.V.
Sergej Prokopkin
Thomas Kilpper
bbk Berlin
Kim Wichera, UDK Berlin, Weglaufhaus "Villa Stöckle", INTAR, IDHA New York
Yane Calovski, artist and curator
Anna Zett, Künstlerin und Autorin
Suza Husse, District * SchoolWithoutCenter
The Many Headed Hydra, artist collective
Coven Berlin
Moira Zoitl, artist
Noel Rademacher, musician
Volodymyr Kuznetsov, artist, Ukraine
Zofia nierodzinska, curator
Dominique Hurth, artist, Berlin
Lesia Pcholka, artist, activist, Belarus
Johann Wiede, writer, publisher, activist
Vanessa Gravenor, Research Associate, HFBK Hamburg
Viktoria Lyakh, freie Kunstwissenschaftlerin/Kuratorin, Berlin
Maria Berrios, curator
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Flutgraben e.V., Berlin
Julia Bonn, artist, Feminist Health Care Research Group
Paula Durinova, artistic director ACUD Galerie, Berlin
Karol Radziszewski, visual artist, Warsaw, Poland
tranzit.cz, Prague
Paul Georg, curator Ukrainian music label Standard Deviation
Richard Pettifer, Artistic Director Faki Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
FFBIZ - das feministische Archiv e.V.
Tijn van de Wijdeven, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Victoria Pidust
RA Walden, Berlin
Kornelia Kugler, filmmaker
Vera Kavaleuskaya, Curator, editor, Helsinki and Minsk
Babi Badalov
Ingela Johansson, artist, Stockholm
Couvet Patricia, curator Brussels/Berlin
Oleksandr Kaliberda, Ukrainian creative producer
Beate Absalon, PhD student at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Germany
Franziska Böhmer
Yulia Krivich, visual artist, Academy of Arts in Szczecin, UA/PL
Jorge Esda
maria sarycheva
Elena Ishchenko, curator at Typography Center for Contemporary Art (Krasnodar, Russia)
Kateryna Vincent
Anastasiia Syradoieva
Natalia Tikhonova
Lysovenko Kateryna, Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv
Andrej Babenko
Irca Solza, artist and independent researcher, Siberia, Russia
Pavel Grazhdanskij, Moscow, Russia
Alicja Jelińska, Fundacja Artystów Kolonia Teraz, Gdańsk, Poland
Larissa Babij, Translator, Curator, Movement researcher, Kyiv
Lia Perromat - Perriez, Bordeaux
Lesia Vasylchenko
Gvidas Pakarklis, Illustrator, Printmaker
Kaja Kusztra
Natalya Stupka
Alisa Marchenko
Vera Ganzha, artist, graphic designer
Maria Patsyuk, artist, Moscow
Dora Vasilakou, curator/writer, Athens, Greece
Mikhail Tolmachev
Dzina Zhuk, artist, part of eeefff, Flying cooperation, Work Hard! Play Hard! working group
Nicolay Spesivtsev, artist, computer scientist, co-organizer of Work Hard! Play Hard!, Speculative Computer Club, eeefff
Rickard Aall, Oslo, NO
Natalia Sielewicz, Curator, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
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Elisabeth Bauer
Viktor Pedersen
Daniel Falb, poet and philosopher, Berlin
Christian Bauer
Wojciech Puś, filmmaker, artist
Kristiana Lytviak
Grace Fielder, Kyiv, Mystetskyi Arsenal
Moritz Küstner
Catherine Arbassette, Bordeaux, France
Daria Prydybailo, independent curator, founder of NGO ART MATTERS UKRAINE
Michel Lacombe
Masha Maroz
María Linares, visual artist (COL/DE)
Sasha Zubritskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia
Yuliia Elyas, Utrecht, Netherlands
Vitaliy Matukhno
Misho Antadze, Film Director, Amsterdam
Stephan Kurr
Inga Lāce, curator, Riga
Ivan Isaev, curator, Moscow
Oleg Perkowsky, artist
Anton Shebetko, artist, photographer, Ukraine
Dariia Kuzmych, interdisciplinary artist, Berlin/Kyiv
Heidi Sill, bildende Künstlerin, Berlin
Mat Fink
Stacey de Voe
Renāte Lagzdina, Riga
Sophie Wright
Alicja Rogalska, artist
Olia Sosnovskaya, artist and scholar, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
An Laurence
Jakub Gawkowski, curator, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź
Susanne Clausen
Pavlo Kerestey
Till Gathmann (artist and typographer)
Aykan Safoglu Berlin/Vienna
Vicki Thornton
Weronika Zalewska, artist, Poland
Clemens v. Wedemeyer, artist, Berlin
Zuzanna Wesołowska
Magdalena Morawik, independent curator
Daria Demia
Svitlana Libet, editor and language teacher
Magdalene Solli, Oslo
Sergey Shabohin, artist, curator, editor in chief
Ron Winkler
Sandra Becker
Zoë Claire Miller, artist
Julia Voloshyna
Max Voloshyn
Sergei Starkowski, Berlin
Marianna Dobkowska, art historian and curator, Warsaw
Karolina Grzywnowicz, artist, Berlin
Julia-Anna Simonchuk
Kai Hermann
Erdal Bilici, Artist
Oleksandr Halishchuk
Tanya Alipchikova, writer, Belarus
Marta Romankiv
Dominik Skrzypkowski
Fedor Kokorev, performance artist
Natalia Pichłacz, Bydgoszcz (Poland), Bydgoskie Centrum Sztuki
Daria Lytvynenko
Robbie Schweiger
Suzanna Zak
Ira Lupu
I-Wei Li, SideBySide Studio e.V.
Tamara Becerra Valdez, Chicago, IL USA
Martin Jankowski (poet and writer, Berlin)
Yana Verba
Teresa Leung
Emre Busse
Anna Litovskikh, art critic and curator of contemporary art archive, Ekaterinburg
Selina Wepf
Theresa Kampmeier, artist
Julia Rodowicz
Anthony Hüseyin
Karla Bauer
Andrea Ancira / Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Frauke Zabel Künstlerin/Kunstvermittlerin
Melanie Meystre
Joe Riley
Magdaléna Michlová, PLATO Ostrava
Tatiana Kochubinska, curator
Nikolay Alutin, curator, Amsterdam/Moscow
Anna Anufriieva
Wolfgang Obermair, Wien, Künstler
Eva Mattes
Michał Grzegorzek, art curator, Warsaw
ujjwal utkarsh, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Rina Rosenqvist
Anastasija Gubina
Alessandra Franetovich, Turin (Italy)
Thjerza Balaj
Ekaterina Rudaia, editor at the Center for Culture CC19, Novosibirsk, Russia
Najaaraq Vestbirk
Martyna Miller, DOMIE
Esben Weile Kjær, Copenhagen
Peter Sit - artist, curator, APART collective, Bratislava
Claudia Contu, London/Florence
Lizza May David, artist
Zeynep Barakat
Nicholas Grafia
Olivia Danielsson
Hedda Grevle Ottesen
Frederik Svanholm
Burcu Sahin
Flóra Gadó
Rikke Bank
Daria Zhuravleva, music journalist, Tomsk, Russia
Maria Isserlis, Ukrainian curator A:D: Berlin, Albertinum, SKD Dresden
Jack O'Flynn
Darja B. Zub, M.A., Project Manager Art & Film Curator, Berlin, Kyiv, New York
Shirin Yousefi, artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland
Olga Sivel
Mariana Carvalho, artist living in Berlin, studying at UdK
Sebastian Cordes, Filmmaker and writer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sisi Savidge
Zoë Mc Pherson
Valentinas Klimašauskas, curator, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lydia Hamann, Berlin
Ekaterina Sharova, Art historian, curator, activist
Thijmen Michiels
Anna Galeeva
Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse
Ivan Tsanko, Kyiv
Bazinato Bazil, Belarussian artist
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, curator
Katarzyna Zielińska - MitOst e.V., Project Manager, Berlin
Dereck Marouço
Emilie Imán, artist, EDU. The Royal Academy of Arts, Denmark, Copenhagen
Alexander Plusnin, artist
Kateřina Olivová, artist, pedagogue of Academy of Fine Arts Prague
Alla Dmitrievna
Karin Keisu, Sweden
Egorova Maria, Russia
Nastya Istomina, cultural worker, Russia
Julie Marie Mønsted
Caroline Ballegaard
Clara Scola, curator, Milan, Italy
Arash Shahali, freelance press agent
Magdo Chuchracka
Justyna Bilik (Łaja Szkło), screenwriter
Haesoo Jung, Artist
Marianna Maruyama, artist, The Hague
Sophie Filtenborg, artist, Denmark
Sonja Ovaskainen, visual artist
Lorena Juan
Judy Landkammer
Maria-Thalia Carras, curator, Athens
Fruzsina Kigyós, Easttopics, Budapest
Tamara MacArthur
annette hollywood
Lærke Cecilie
Marwa Arsanios, artist, Berlin
Anna Barbieri
Anna Sagalchik, curator and producer of the art group 12:12, St Petersburg, Russia
Alishia Farnan, Photographer, Glasgow
Bahar Noorizadeh, Visiting Lecturer at Royal College of Art, London
Andreas Klassen
Ania Molenda
Joakim Kruse Lykke, cultural worker, visual artist and writer, Copenhagen
Gallery Schaubmarov mlyn
Anastasia Sosunova
Amalia Nangeroni, art historian, Italy
Jules p. Fricker (LEGZ)
sabihe awanzai mahmoud
Mindaugas Patapas
Laura Herman, course director curatorial studies KASK
Julia Gerdner
Philipp Hindahl, Berlin
Natasha Klimenko
Andrea Popelka
Lisa Simpson, craftivist, Berlin
Elda Oreto
Stephanie Maria Stadler, Art Historian, Social Media Manager, Curator, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Munich
Paul Griffiths
Vikenti Komitski
Rhea Dall
marie lea lund
Caro Feistritzer
Emanuele Guidi, Curator and artistic director ar/ge kunst, Kunstverein Bolzano
Jelena (Jelly) Luise
Nina Eriksson, artist and art student, Bergen, Norway
Haryung Lee
Sebastjan Brank, cultural worker, Berlin
Alex Ostojski, Berlin
Freja Sigsgaard-Hansen
Alina Scheyrer-Lauer
Nicola Godman
Karolina Kubik
Hildur Ása Henrýsdóttir, artist in Berlin
Uladzimir Hramovich, artist
Olivia Rode Hvass
Maria von Hausswolff
Soley Ragnarsdottir, artist
Katarzyna Różniak, curator, Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, Poland
Ida Mariboe Nielsen
Juliet Skogen Raczkowski
Beatrice Alexanian, Copenhagen
Christina Gigliotti, curator and artist liaison at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Greta Weibull, set designer and artist, Stockholm, Sweden
Hanna Launikovich, Belarusian performance artist based in Gießen
Konrad Worning Eilenberger
Andreas Haglund, dancer and choreographer, copenhagen/stockholm
Anna Ptak, curator
Post Brothers, curator, Bialystok
Matthias Krause Hamrin (board member Flutgraben e.V.)
Anna Sofie Mathiasen, artist, Oslo and Copenhagen
Katrine Staub Larsen
Evgenija Wassilew, Berlin
Andrea Caroline Keppler, Team of Artistic Directors, District*Schule ohne Zentrum
Mikosch Loutsenko
Sonja Borstner: writer and editor, Berlin
Anna Stoppa
Espen Kvålsvoll, artist; Oslo
Lotta Pick
Dimitri Lanctuit, photographer living between Kyiv and Paris
Kerstin Wiehe, kultkom, Berlin
Katarzyna Wojtczak, artist, DOMIE /Poznań, PL
Damla Kilickiran
Anna Püschel, Belgium, Visual artist
Samantha Bohatsch, artist, Berlin
Sheung YIU, a Hong Kong born Helsinki based artist
Borys Slowikowski
Petra Hermanova, Berlin
Dana Maxim
Carla Viola Thurøe
Andrej Babenko artist, painter, Brussels, Belgium
Agnieszka Wodzińska, Polish writer and art history teacher based in Den Haag, Netherlands
NAOMI James SCHATTEMAN
Su Yu Hsin, artist, Berlin
Catherine Wang, Berlin
Tetta Marie Carangi
Lasse Schmidt Hansen
ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG
Priya Bains, poet, Norway
Rasmus Daugbjerg
Ieva Rižė, Vilnius
Kinga Michalska, visual artist and educator, PL
Herb Shellenberger, curator + artworker, London/Philadelphia
Thit Amalie Vienberg Hansen
Ninni Nyhus
Vilius Vaitiekūnas
Johan Klint Sandberg, Opera Director, Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen
Amelie Jakubek, organizer and artistic researcher, Berlin
Ewelina Konieczna, Poland
Sara Mering, writer and journalist
Carlota Jerez
Anna Smolak
Liv Melin
Ayla Dmyterko, Ukrainian-Canadian artist and arts educator
Zuzanna Czebatul, Artist, Berlin, Germany
Agnieszka Roguski, Researcher and curator, Artistic Director M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung
Martin Jon Hasfeldt, Copenhagen
Marie Caye
Maria Morata, independent curator and researcher, Berlin
Been Livne Weitzman, curator and writer
Alberte Westergaard
Jul Vorkefeld, Studio UTZ, Berlin
Pawel Wodzinski, director of Biennale Warszawa
Gabrielle Goliath (artist/South Africa)
Goda Palekaitė, artist and researcher (Hasselt University, Belgium)
Alina Lupu, artist, Amsterdam/Bucharest
Thomas Conchou
Anatol Malinowski, musician, Enjoy Life label
Annika Frahm, HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Leda Bourgogne, artist based in Berlin
Thomas Musehold
Dani Arnold
Kier Cooke Sandvik
Janan Laubscher
Aleksandra Stadnik, mixed media artist Hamburg
alëna vinokurova, visual artist, russia and the netherlands
Adele Dovydaviciute, architect, Vilnius
Klara von Veegh
Kerstin Wiehe, kultkom
Daniel Muzyczuk, curator, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Agata Rosochacka, Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury, Poznan, Poland
Christelle Havranek, Chief Curator Kunsthalle Praha
Carin Klonowski
Sidsel Ana Welden
Anna Karpenko, curator Belarus-Germany
Mehryl Levisse, artist based in Casablanca, Morocco
Philipp Lange, curator and writer
Justina Los, artist, Berlin
Claus Haxholm
Olga Schubert, cultural worker, Berlin
Wioleta Zochowska
Andrew J Beltran
Felix Schiller, Cultural Worker and Writer
Jongbin Park, Berlin
Magnus Larsson, Orchestra conductor, Copenhagen
Patrycja Plich, artist
Elena Konyushikhina, curator and art teacher, Moscow
Evgeniia Skvortsova
Hazel Dunn (cultural worker in Scotland)
Vildana Duzel
Natalja H.B
Coila-Leah Enderstein, pianist, artist and performer, Berlin
Kaunas Artists' House based in Kaunas, Lithuania
Vrishali Purandare, Researcher - Academy of fine arts Vienna
Zuzanna Hertzberg, visual artist, activist and researcher (Warsaw, Poland)
Kasia Törz, writer and curator, Antwerp, Belgium
Virginia Dediego
Janek Simon, visual artist based in Warsaw
Lukasz Jastrubczak, artist
Bryndís Björnsdóttir (Dísa) based in Reykjavík/Berlin
Daria Giwer - visual artist from Poland
Julien Ribeiro, France
Michaela Richter
Kacper Kepinski, curator, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning
Natalia Sucharek, Polish artist based in Berlin
Linda Norris, Senior Specialist, Methodology and Practice, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Nina Iżycka
Adriana Tranca, curator, Berlin/Bucharest
Sophia Scherer
Theresa Weise, Art Historien, Writer, Frankfurt/Hamburg
Bona Stanulewicz, interdisciplinary artist and performer from Poland, Poznań
Lea Moheit
Anna Bargiel, curator, educator, Krakow, Poland
Lena Skrabs, artist, Berlin
Anastasia Kolas, artist, Berlin
Lauren Fournier
Nora Sdun, Textem Verlag
Juri Franken
Eva Beth, black flamingo
Torsten Oelscher, black flamingo
Gabriela Těthalová, Visual Artist, Berlin & Prague
Andrzej Steinbach, Berlin
Kuba Szreder, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Natalia Romik, Senna Collective
Johanna Luisa Müller, art historian
Anne Wodtcke
Luïza Luz, Artist, Brazil/Berlin
Mike Sheffield
Loan Gaikis, Vienna
Raphael Daibert Gomide
Malyshki 18:22, artists from Russia
Debby Farber, Curator, Berlin
Annemarijn Vermeij
Sasha Pevak
Nicolas Mastracchio, Artist
Teodora Talhos, curator (Romania, Germany)
Liz Miller Kovacs, Artist and Curator, Berlin
Lukas Truniger, media artist, Lille/Zürich
Kim Bode, artist
Beyond the post-soviet
Jean-Christophe Arcos from Paris
Lauriane Daphne Carl, artist, BerlinÂ
Eight Fang, visual artist, culture practitioner, Berlin
Tekla Aslanishvili, artist, Berlin
Martin Wendelbo
Kenza Rady, cultural worker based in Berlin
Marc-André Weibezahn
Hannah Hallermann, Studio HAHA
Scott Rogers, Artist, Glasgow, Scotland
Leah Buckareff
Anders Aarvik
Julius Pristauz
Franciszek Orłowski, artist, Warsaw
Florine Lindner, E-Werk Luckenwalde
Eva Ďurovec, Berlin
Sabine Wedege
Daniel M.E. Schaal, Kunschaffender, Berlin
Lutz Längert, MoBe Moving Poets Berlin e.V.
Vlad Brăteanu, visual artist
Jennifer Chert, Chertlüdde gallery, Berlin