Visible Histories: Minority Narratives
November – December 2025, Graz
Visible Histories: Minority Narratives is an artistic research residency that took place in Graz in late 2025. The project was initiated by 127 Garage (Kharkiv) in collaboration with the Embassy of Austria in Kyiv and supported by local partners, including <rotor> Center for Contemporary Art.
Over the course of one month, three artists from Ukraine — Alina Panasenko, Mariia Agisian, and Olga Polyak — worked in Graz on their research-based projects. For each of them, this period became a time of focused work, meetings, conversations, and the gradual unfolding of ideas within a new context.
The project focused on themes of memory, identity, and minority experience, as well as on ways of articulating these through artistic practice.
In collaboration with local institutions and communities in Graz, the artists engaged with different cultural contexts, including the histories of Armenian and Romanian communities in Austria.
Visible Histories became a space for attentive work with personal narratives and their connection to broader cultural and social processes. At the same time, the project created opportunities for new professional connections and dialogue between Ukrainian artists and the local cultural scene in Graz.
The residency concluded with public events at ZIEGEL, including artist talks and presentations of ongoing processes and research outcomes.
Visible Histories: Minority Narratives підтримує Європейський Союз за програмою Дім Європи.
