Kvartirnik with Mykyta Lyskov: Screening and Discussion of Animated Films

Meet Mykyta Lyskov, a recipient of our Ukrainian Civic Courage Fellowships. An animation filmmaker, author of the award-winning short films Love and Kyiv Cake, and member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, he lives in Dnipro and teaches animation directing at Dnipro Art College.
During the evening, Mykyta will screen his latest animated films and talk about the state of Ukrainian animation and contemporary film education in Ukraine.

Moral faultlines in conflict societies: An anthropological kvartirnik

Our guest is Oxford anthropologist Matthew Porges, whose research has focused on societies living through prolonged conflict, including Western Sahara and the Balkans.

Honest Grants 2 -- kvartirnik

We continue our conversation about grants without conformity. At the first Cosmo Salon, we discussed why grants matter, how to stop fearing or despising them, and how to use them not to fit someone else’s agenda, but to support independent creative work. This time, we move to practice.

Recovery After Total War

Тhe first major international public discussion of Ukraine's post-war social settlement: how Ukraine can retain and return its people, social cohesion and political trust.

Olga Yarovaya's Exhibition

An exhibition by Cosmopolitan artist Olga Yarovaya is opening, featuring her distinctive collage technique, characterized by a unique play of images and details.

Paradoxes of Decolonisation

A joint Cosmopolis-Einstein Forum discussion about the logic and consequences of Ukraine's state-sponsored decolonisation drive.

Ukrainian Portrait

Ukrainian Cosmopolis invites you to the exhibition “Ukrainian Portrait” by Kateryna Biletina at the Odesa Literary Museum.

When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea

When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea, directed by Eva Neymann, will be screened at Produktionhaus NAXOS. The film offers a cinematic journey through Odessa, a city worn down by war. 

PoemsNotBombs

Zoom event with Kaveh Akbar, Carolyn Forche, Kiese Laymon, Valzhyna Mort and Ilya Kaminsky.

The Girl Who Did Not Know How to Hate

Cosmopolis produced the Ukrainian translation of Lidia Maksymowicz's memoir of surviving Auschwitz. With support from journalist Paolo Rodari.

Kvartirnik No. 1

Anastasia Piliavsky talked to Odessa's artists and writers about applying for grant funding without betraying their visions or serving someone else's agendas.

Launch of Azov Horizons

Book launch and signing of Azov Horizons, a photography book by Cosmopolis Member Patrick Wack, with an afterword by Cosmopolis Founder Anastasia Piliavsky.

Cosmo Kino Fest

A one-day documentary film festival, featuring “Pryvoz” by Eva Neymann, “Trust or Rust” by Andrii Kashpur and Dmytro Khopta, “Kherson: Human Safari”, by Zarina Zabrisky and Gar O'Rourke's Oscar-nominated Sanatorium.

Fault Lines

A tribute-exhibition to the late award-winning French photographer Matthieu Chazal (1975–2024), in collaboration with Galerie Hegoa, Paris.

Cosmo Colloquium

Our launch conference about cosmopolitanism in Ukraine's past and future.