Contemporary History of Ukraine

Middlesbrough Art Week 2025, the North East’s leading contemporary art festival, returns for its eighth edition with an ambitious program of artist and community exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, and public interventions happening across the town from September 25th to October 4th.Middlesbrough Art Week is built on collaboration, support, and the nurturing of creative practices. This year, it weaves together diverse artistic voices and community perspectives into a collective expression of solidarity. Under the evocative theme In All Possible Worlds, the festival dares to imagine a future shaped by creativity, resilience, and hope. MAW25 embraces this uncertainty, offering a space where we see and feel through one another’s eyes. By providing space for mutual support and creative nourishment, the festival becomes a platform for new ideas, new perspectives, and the possibility of new worlds, In All Possible Worlds.Middlesbrough Art Week was born in 2017 as an artist-led festival powered by The Auxiliary Project Space, a small growing team of artists, curators and coordinators, and fueled by wide reaching partnerships. MAW supports artist ecologies in the North East, connecting artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and not just preach principles of fair work and social justice.www.middlesbroughartweek.comInstagram: @middlesbrough.art.weekTwitter: @MAW_weekender

Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

Contemporary History of Ukraine is a live, interactive performance-lecture by artist and filmmaker Oksana Kazmina

12 Captain Cook Square

This year’s festival runs for eight action-packed days from 25 September - 4 October hosting a programme of free events, critical conversations and creative activities.

📍 12 Captain Cook Square (former TK Maxx Store), Middlesbrough TS1 1SR 🗓 Friday 3rd October | 7pm - 9pmContemporary History of Ukraine is a live, interactive performance-lecture by artist and filmmaker Oksana Kazmina, developed following a short research visit to Middlesbrough. Drawing on her previous fieldwork in Mariupol, the project explores resonances between post-industrial landscapes and collective memory. Using montage, Google Maps, archival footage, and embodied storytelling, the piece reflects on Ukraine’s recent history through a personal and political lens.Mature audience only, viewer's discretion advised. Content: possible nudity, obscene language.🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com Join our WhatsApp to receive the latest updates on MAW25. 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/J7SH81T7Ls3EGH3Nzg026s

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