{"id":1711,"date":"2025-07-20T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:53:45","slug":"common-ground-discussion-with-yulia-kostereva-and-rusanda-alexandru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/2025\/07\/20\/common-ground-discussion-with-yulia-kostereva-and-rusanda-alexandru\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ground: Discussion with Yulia Kostereva and Rusanda Alexandru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-07-18T15:54:00\">July 18, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-medienarchiv wp-block-embed-medienarchiv\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"___madek-embed\">   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SNF208232_2025_Moldova_VID_CommonGround_Discussion2_Kostereva_Alexandru_edited\"   width=\"500\"   height=\"281\"   src=\"https:\/\/medienarchiv.zhdk.ch\/entries\/4af4ba95-737a-4a25-8ac0-1d70eee608ab\/embedded?height=281&amp;width=500\"   frameborder=\"0\"   style=\"margin:0;padding:0;border:0;\"   allowfullscreen   webkitallowfullscreen   mozallowfullscreen   ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The evolution of Ukrainian artists\u2019 artistic strategies in the last decade<\/em><\/strong>, by Yulia Kostereva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yulia Kostereva showed how artists&#8217; methods and strategies have changed during the ten years of war, based on the activity of the platform Open Place. Her presentation explored how the full-scale invasion in 2022 has affected society, cultural life and artists in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In <strong><em>Building cultural safe spaces in rural regions<\/em><\/strong>, Rusanda Alexandru presented projects she worked on since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, working with displaced people from Ukraine and integrating them in Moldovan rural communities. She also touched on building trusting relationships with communities in the Gagauzian region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">photo: Vladimir Us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rusanda Curca<\/strong> [MD] &#8211; cultural, environmental and civic activist from Moldova. She is the co-founder of the Centre for cultural projects \u201dArta Azi\u201d, an organisation that promotes access to art and culture in rural areas and marginalised groups. She is also the director of the Coalition of the Independent Cultural Sector from the Republic of Moldova, an umbrella organisation that unites representatives of the independent cultural scene.&nbsp;<br><strong>Yulia Kostereva<\/strong> [UA] \u2013 artist, curator, and organizer. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv (2001). Her practice concerns both visual arts and art of interaction. In 1999, with the artist Yuriy Kruchak, she launched the interdisciplinary platform Open Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/11\/image-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rusanda Alexandru, Rada Leu and Yulia Kostereva. Photo: Vladimir Us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of Ukrainian artists\u2019 artistic strategies in the last decade, by Yulia Kostereva. Yulia Kostereva showed how artists&#8217; methods and strategies have changed during the ten years of war, based on the activity of the platform Open Place. 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