We invite you to join the release of the fifth issue of Solomiya Magazine. The magazine’s team, as well as many contributing artists, will be present and discuss their work with Natalia Martynenko, a contributor to the Berlin-based Cashmere Radio. A music live set by Udda will follow the presentation.
Solomiya No. 5 — After Now @KVOST 27.11.2025 . 7 pm
Now in its twelfth year, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has transformed from a singular rupture into an enduring state of crisis; from a suspension of law into a law of suspension. At a moment when grief and anger dominate public and private life, envisioning the future can feel out of reach. Solomiya No. 5—After Now reflects on hope and freedom not as a triumph, but as a complex, often compromised condition, entangled in inequality, shaped by trauma, and co-opted by power. By gathering voices from Yemen to Ukraine, from Georgia to Germany, the issue turns our attention to the present, to the conditions shaping the paths that futures may follow. With contributions from 21 artists, journalists and scientists, Solomiya navigates the deadlocks of communication and the paradox of imagining a post-war future within ongoing war. They hold space for doubt, contradiction, and the possibility of being wrong—through testimonies of soldiers and veterans, and expressions of embodied experiences of dancers, imagined chess figures, dopamine supermen, astronauts, and dried watermelons.
Contributors: atelienormalno, Khulud Alharthi, Mohammed Al-Qadhi, Commercial Public Art, Anna Dziapshipa, Yuliia Elias, Alina El Assadi, Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Tetiana Kyselova, Dariia Kuzmych, Darja Lukjanenko, Oleksii Minko, Anastasiia Omelianiuk, Vladyslav Plisetskyi, Volodymy Prylutskyi, Bojan Stojčić, Starman, Illia Todurkin, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells
Editors: Vsevolod Kazarin, Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Sebastian Wells / Art Direction: Kollektiv Scrollan / Text Editor: Odesa Varela / Published by SHIFT BOOKS