Vite Joksaite is a cultural manager, curator and activist. Since studying Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (MA) at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in her hometown, Vite has been exploring how art can contribute to social change and how to enable creativity for different target groups. She has initiated projects in public spaces, shopping streets, buildings of renowned institutions and train stations. She studied Curatorial Studies (MA) at the Städelschule and at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to expand her knowledge of the theory and practice of artistic participation. A scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation gave her access to new networks and social issues such as ecology, human rights, migration and feminism. Vite is active in the LABSA association (www.labsa.de) and has been a permanent member of the kitev team for 4 years. She is also the founder of village e.V., which explores new ways of social cohesion.
Nils Andersch: An artist himself and deeply rooted in the urban art and event scene for decades, he realized numerous projects in the Ruhr region and internationally in positions of responsibility in various associations for the promotion of art (Beatplantation e.V., Simama e.V., Denkodrom e.V., Port e.V.) even before the implementation of the TUAM1 project at kitev. In the field of urban art, the “Waende Südost” project, in which 21 artists from all over the world created a 3.5-kilometre-long mural on the noise barriers of the A40 in Essen's south-eastern district in 2012, as well as exchange projects with Africa, e.g. participation in the “Street Art Caravan Morocco” in 2016, are particularly noteworthy.
Margo Zālīte is one of our artists in residence in 2025 and will create artistic connections to the Ruhr region and present her works during her stay in Oberhausen. She makes electronic music and works as an opera director and curator, nationally and internationally with a focus on social and environmental justice. She studied Visual Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and Opera Directing in the Master's program at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. She currently teaches music theater directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and conducts research at the ligeti center on the intersection of AI and social justice to innovatively shape the future of artistic education.
www.zalite.net www.ligetizentrum.hfmt-hamburg.de
vixiii is a project by multimedia artist and musician Ksenija Shcherbakova from Kyiv, which was founded at the beginning of the war of aggression. The main theme of the project is an acoustic journey through time and space, which the author conveys with her main instrument - a pocket recorder. The sound archive of the field recorder is complemented by drone synthesizers and vocals that echo throughout this journey.
Anna Dovhan is a sound and visual artist from Kyiv. Her project, which will be presented at the event, is based on field recordings and observations of the sound of sirens in Ukraine.
She refers to this sound as the voice of mourning and looks for ways to interpret it and transform it into other sound structures and compositions by creating an imaginary orchestra with a single recording.
Anton Saenko is a Ukrainian artist working in the fields of painting, installation, photography, performance and land art. Saienko deals with the interface between figurative and abstract art, exploring themes of landscape space, searching for simple forms and creating emotionally charged situations.
