Journalist, Photographer, Translator, Lecturer, Curator

Olga Bubich

Olga Bubich is a Belarusian journalist, photographer, lecturer and curator.

She is the author of three books with the latest one decidated to the topic of memory and memory censorship. Her articles and essays were published in Stern, Eurozine, Versopolis, Blaetter, Die Presse, the IWPR and other European media. She is currently an ICORN fellow, based in Berlin as a writer in exile.

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Works

Sveta Ben, Olga Bubich

Searching for »Hope to Hope«

Sveta Ben–one of the most famous Belarusian singers and actresses, now in exile,–speaks about the power and fragility of German interwar cabaret, music able to predict the future, and Berlin where she will always feel as a guest

Bleak House Books, Olga Bubich

»Literary Oasis« in a Cornfield

From Hong Kong with books

Moving countries is a painful process that can involve not only people and their families but entire businesses put at risk by political stances their owneres take. One of such businesses is »Bleak House Books« shop that had to leave Hong …

Masha Pryven, Olga Bubich

Selective Empathy, Russian Colonial Lense and »Opinions« that Start Mattering More than Facts

Ukrainian photographer Masha Pryven speaks up on the problematic issues around the EU’s current perception of the full-scale invasion and the role of artists and art

Maria Gulina, Olga Bubich

Who do wir really care of?

Care as an art practice and a way to collaboration with other-than-humans

Aliaksandr Charnukha, Olga Bubich

»What We call Belarusian Music is Breaking into Pieces«

Aliaksandr Charnukha about resilience and creativity, challenges and successes of Belarusian music four years after the start of the dark days

Atefe Asadi, Juli Nazarova, Olga Bubich

»I Wanted to Hear the Voice Telling me that All Was Temporary«

»exile is a library in Tehran that does not fit in a backpack«

Iranian poetess Atefe Asadi–on the freedom and power native language gives you, translation losses and memory that at times could be very cruel

Olga Bubich, Aliaksandr Veledzimovich

From »I« to »We«: Trauma, Empathy, Memory

Looking for a path toward healing through sharing traumatic experiences and collective memory

Hanna Šot, Olga Bubich

»To Move On, We Need to Take Time to Grieve and Restore Justice«

About loops in time, and history that walks in circles

Hanna Yankuta, Olga Bubich

From Illegal Constitutions to Silent Care of Smaller Lives

Using ecopoetry and self-empowering language Hanna Yankuta builds her »Constitution of Everything«–an unwritten document offering hope for a better, fairer and more equal world, where every living organism matters

Aleksandra Kononchenko, Olga Bubich

»It Breaks My Heart When I See People Refusing to Talk to Each Other«

CARING THROUGH GESTURES–BIG AND SMALL

Belarusian photographer and visual artist Aleksandra Kononchenko on the challenges of shooting dance performances, meaningful collaborations, and cross-cultural trauma healed through dialogue

Chak-lui Chan, Olga Bubich

Planting a Garden of Inclusive and Hybrid Culture

Sam Chak Lui Chan, a star of Cantonese opera, speaks about the reasons of her emigration and new life in Britain with both the story behind her exile from Hong Kong and new challenges she is facing abroad resonating with the stories of artists in exi …

Zmicer Waynowski, Olga Bubich

»Forgetting the Dictator is a Form of Therapy«

BELARUSIAN MUSIC IN EXILE/WORLDWIDE

Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide

Alexander Bogdanov/Papa Bo, Olga Bubich

»In Belarusian culture in exile, our bullets are not symbols–but meanings!«

Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide

Sergej Newski, Olga Bubich

The Art of (not) Forgetting

for four voices and video

A music Performance based on traumatic and resourceful memories of women and LGBTQ+ Belarusians collected into the photobook »The Art of (Not) Forgetting«

Anna Dial, Arina Kalimulina, Olga Bubich

Anything Multiplied by Zero Gets Destroyed

Two researchers in exile launch an anti-war exhibition offering a space for empathy, pain, solidarity and questions many of which remain unanswered

Yauhenia Dougaya, Olga Bubich

It is in silence where the most evil things are done

Belarusian civic journalist and photographer Yauhenia Dougaya talks about women political prisoners enduring inhumane conditions during their incarceration

Maryna Rusia Shukiurava (Rusya), Olga Bubich

Shuma on the Choir Cures

singing that heals

Belarusian vocal therapist shares her experience of group singing in the choir of women émigrés as a way to show care, cherish the moment of togetherness and give each other support

Tatiana Antonova, Valeria Khripatch, Olga Bubich

Interview about »A Place« performance

Yanina Boldyreva, Olga Bubich

Collective inaction

Siberian counter-memory art activist on »Russian guilt«, motherland, and »despite« mode

Hanna Yankuta, Olga Bubich

on »memory plants«

Interview with the writer hanna yankuta

On »memory plants«, books that help define the place we belong, and hope able to give strength to resist

Maxim Kolomiiets, Anton Anishchanka, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer, Nadya Sayapina, Olga Bubich, Siarhei Zwicky, Maria Komarova

LIMINARIUM

International Festival of Performative Arts

My Great-granddad Saw the Statue of Liberty,

or family memory that gain the voice century later

or family memory that gains the voice century later

when monuments can not speak

How memorial sites dedicated to the tramatic past can prevent us from making the same mistakes today