Dana Kavelina

As a native to Melitopol’, Ukraine, Dana Kavelina’s life has always been defined by war. Since 2017, Kavelina, an animator by schooling, has used art of various mediums including sketches, video installations, and paintings to share her critiques on war and its consequences.

When, in 2022, the Russo-Ukranian War began to dramatically affect the lives of Ukranians outside of the Donbass region, Kavelina was forced to flee to Berlin, Germany where she lives today, still creating artistic representations of war though they have grown far more grotesque so as to represent the physical, psychological, and sexual sufferings of women during war.

This image shows Kavelina smoking a cigarette in her kitchen.

Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-

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Dana Kavelina