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OPEN ACADEMY KITEV untersucht das Potenzial von Kunst, in Zeiten ungelöster Krisen alternative Zukünfte zu entwerfen. Vom 1. bis 5. Oktober 2025 werden künstlerische Forschungsergebnisse im kitev-Wasserturm und in der Unterhaus-Galerie Oberhausen präsentiert.

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OPEN ACADEMY kitev
A Part of Urban Art Mycelium (TUAM2)

OPEN ACADEMY kitev explores the potential of art to imagine alternative futures in times of unresolved crisis. From October 1–5, 2025, artistic research results will be presented at kitev, Unterhaus Gallery in Oberhausen.

ARTISTS & CURATORS

Lisa Biletska lives in Kyiv and works with text , translation, and computers. Her ongoing project is Noha—a journal of literary documentary writing. Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Lisa has worked with documenting fires on the Kinburn peninsula; toxic waste in the Black Sea; and Ukrainian children living as refugees on the Curonian Spit. At kitev, Lisa will share notes on a partially real utopia glimpsed for a moment in between the villages of Zabucha-Zabuttya-(G)Rubezhivka*, in the summer of 2025. *Beyond-Bucha, Beyond-Being (Forgetfulness), (Rough)Borderplace. Medea in the Gardens of the Hesperides // Noha magazine // Glowwood cards

Paul Granjon is an artist and educator whose early work with self-made robots explored the co-evolution of humans and machines with a humorous and critical perspective. The work questioned the validity of a creeping digitization that tends to replace living beings with digital programs and creatures, supporting a society based on economic profit, surveillance and extraction. His interest in vital issues of resilience and ecological implication grew over the years, based on the conviction that a renewed relationship with plant, animal and mineral beings and environments, combined with a radically re-imagined use of technology are crucial pre-requisites for a good life on earthSeveral recent works explore the potential of electrogenic soil bacteria - microbes that generate tiny amounts of electricity - for artworks, citizen science and public engagement. Paul is a member of the Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths University London. More info at www.zprod.org

Vite Joksaite is a cultural manager, curator, and activist. Since completing her Master’s degree in Cultural Management and Cultural Policy at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in her hometown, Vite has been exploring how art can contribute to social change and how creativity can be made accessible to diverse audiences. She pursued further studies in Curatorial Studies (MA) at the Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt, deepening her knowledge of both the theory and practice of artistic participation. A scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation opened doors to new networks and societal issues such as ecology, human rights, migration, and feminism. Vite has been a core member of the kitev team for the past five years and co-curated the project TUAM2. In addition, she is the founder of Village e.V., an initiative that explores innovative approaches to strengthening social cohesion in local and global contexts.

Lina Kusaite is an illustrator, eco-art educator and coach, living and working in Belgium. Her main source of creative activities is Nature's ecosystems within human relations. Lina works on creating different methodologies, workshops and artworks in order to inform people about the social life of plants and the undeniable need for humans to connect with wilderness.

Natalia Matsenko is an independent curator and art critic. She was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine, and holds a Master’s degree in Art Theory and Art History from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Her work focuses on landscape and environmental transformations, human and non-human communities and networks, new media, and the preservation of cultural heritage. Her recent practice is connected to the relationship between ecological and political action and art, and its impact on socio-environmental systems. She has curated exhibitions and events in Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, Belgium, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Mexico, and beyond. Several of her projects have been carried out in collaboration with the European External Action Service. She worked as a guest curator at the Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (2022–2024).

Refugees’ Kitchen is the oldest kitev project and has been active. It is a mobile kitchen, co-planned, co-built, and co-operated by artists and refugees. Traveling from city to city, it not only shares culinary traditions but also offers a cultural program including concerts, talks, and discussions. At various urban sites, the members cook traditional dishes from their regions. Alongside the meals, they also share political insights: the causes of displacement such as war, authoritarian regimes, and military interventions. In this way, Refugees’ Kitchen combines food with political awareness – “fast food with fast facts” – making the topic of flight tangible through both personal stories and political contexts. since 2021, with weekly activities in a collaboratively developed space LEERSTAND in Oberhausen Central Station. http://refugeeskitchen.de

Carlos Andrés Rico is a Colombian composer whose work moves between classical and popular music. He studied composition in Bogotá and later in Hamburg, where he completed a Master’s degree in Multimedia Composition. In 2022, he earned his doctorate (Dr. Sc. Mus.) in Artistic Research at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. His music spans theater and dance productions, concert works, and interventions in public spaces. Many of his projects explore social issues and are inspired by the cosmovision of Indigenous peoples of Latin America.https://carlosandresrico.com/biography/

Since 2016, Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten have been collaborating on stage-like installations and performances that explore feedback systems between nature and technology both on and with the earth. The duo relates the interaction between the environment and living beings not only to human beings, but equally to flora and fauna. Thus, the protagonists within the multimedia works are mostly those beings that have no voice in reality: hybrid beings of nature and technology, plants and animals that convey their own perspective on the world through musical environments. The duo collects stories from around the world based on fact-rich research in order to develop narratives that allow for new connections. The duo lives and works at the Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund.

Yuri Yefanov is a Ukrainian artist and filmmaker whose work explores the otherworldly digital dimensions through computer-generated imagery. His practice examines the interactions between everyday life and politics by creating his digital systems and mythologies. His practice is focused on the future, landscapes, war, and ecology. He is using a game engine to generate digital simulations of various decentralized societies. Within these virtual domains, he cultivates utopian visions of the distant future of humanity.

Margo Zālīte works as an opera director and curator both nationally and internationally, with a focus on social and ecological justice. She studied Visual Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin and Opera Directing in the Master’s program at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. Her experience with multidisciplinary projects and festivals in Latvia, Poland, and Germany laid the foundation for her own approach to stage interpretation: www.zalite.net. As an alumna of the Akademie Musiktheater heute (2011–2013), she has extensive experience in writing libretti, scenarios, essays, and plays, including many works for student and youth theater. From 2020 to 2024 she was a member of the artistic direction of the FAVORITEN Festival, Germany’s oldest festival of the independent performing arts scene. Margo is currently teaching opera directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and conducting research at the Ligeti Center at the intersection of AI and social justice, aiming to shape the future of artistic education in innovative ways.
www.ligetizentrum.hfmt-hamburg.de