Oksana
Kazmina

Oksana Kazmina is an artist, filmmaker, and educator. She is also a participant in the cine-movement “Freefilmers,” which was originally founded in Mariupol, Ukraine. Kazmina works at the intersection of performance art, moving image, and critical media theory. Her main focus is the relationship between modern body and media, the mediality of experience, the embodied memory. Since 2015, Kazmina has been working on her debut feature, “Underwater,” which evolved into an online exhibition www.dokvira.cam. Just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kazmina developed a series of walks-lectures “Contemporary History of Ukraine” and a bio-art project, “Dead/ly Landscapes or I Myself Should Become All Places I Loved.” Currently, Kazmina is conducting research on the relationship between ritual, cybernetics, and moving image, focusing on the work of Kyiv-born avant-garde artist and filmmaker Maya Deren.

Oksana Kazmina will stay in Berlin in November/December 2024 with a short-term fellowship to support encounters with Ukrainian Artists and will present her work at the event Peilung#7 at the daadgalerie on November 28.