Solomiya, No.2

Since October 2022, the editors Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin and Sebastian Wells as well as the art direction around Anne-Lene Proff and Peter Bünnagel from Kollektiv Scrollan and the Berlin-based publishing house SHIFT BOOKS have been working on a second issue of the magazine. The 132-page edition contains works by talented and already well-known Ukrainian artists. Artists:inside from the areas Photography and Graphic and Texts about photography, film, contemporary art, literature and, above all, the everyday lives of young people in Ukraine, which attempt to make the complex reality of life in the constant sights of the Russian aggressors comprehensible.

The new issue focuses in particular on the stories of people from the now-occupied territories in Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea, who have already been facing the war since 2014. The cover of the new issue was designed exclusively for Soлomiya by the renowned artist Alevtina Kakhidze. It shows a woman surrounded by missiles and drones, raising her hand. “Our hands became more skilful during the war,” says Kakhidze, who has already created hundreds of drawings during the war and drew a tardigrade on the back cover of the magazine — the only creature to survive the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

“This magazine, created in Kyiv and designed in Berlin, is a testament to resistance through the means of art”,the editors say.