Images and Objects of Russia's War Against Ukraine

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has destroyed lives, communities, and cities. From the start, images of this war spread across various media platforms. Paintings, photographs, drone footage, TikToks, and Instagram posts shaped how the war is experienced, represented, and archived. In this multidisciplinary volume, artists, scholars, and writers explore how art, media, infrastructures, and material culture respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Natasha Klimenko is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History held at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her PhD project looks at the entangled art histories of Soviet Uzbekistan in the interwar period, with a focus on modernist art, conceptual transfers, identity formation, and the role of institutions. She also researches historical and contemporary art, culture, and media in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Miglė Bareikytė, born in 1987, is an assistant professor of digital studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). She has a background in media studies, STS and political theory. Her research explores and analyses digital media and conflict, media witnessing, digital archives, attention economies, and media accountability, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist, head coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) and academic senior advisor to the research group Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration, Memory. Since 2020, she has also been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a professor at the department of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University