Oksana Zmiyevska & Oleg Soulimenko

In the course of their Fellowship, the duo Oksana Zmiyevska and Oleg Soulimenko realized a play at Schauspielhaus Wien. In "Rendezvous at My Spot," young people are encouraged to engage with significant places from their everyday lives in Vienna. Using artistic and performative means, they embark on a search for their own personal footprints in places in public space. The resulting drawings, sculptures, texts and much more will serve as source material for a multilingual documentary musical installation. Reality and fantasy merge at the seam between fictional and real events and places.

Oksana Zmiyevska is a Ukrainian-Russian painter and performance artist, she lives and works in Vienna. In 2011 she graduated from the University of Applied Arts with a degree in painting. She has teaching experience in artistic subjects at secondary schools as well as at many private educational institutions such as at Zeichenfabrik(Vienna) and others. She has participated in many notable exhibitions with her works, such as OHO, Cselley Mühle, Kunstraum Kulm and Künstlerhaus. She is an artist in the September 2018 issue of Vormagazin and is having a solo exhibition at RED Carpet showroom on Karlsplatz.

Oleg Soulimenko is a Russian performance artist and choreographer; he lives and works in Vienna. In 1990 he founded Saira Blanche Theatre, whose provocative performances toured the world. In 2010, together with brut Wien, he developed the exchange project “Music Here, Music There between Austria and Russia: Vienna-Moscow” with performances in both capitals. His performances have been shown at various performance venues and international festivals such as the Wiener Festwochen, brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, Performa in New York, Impulse Theater Festival in Germany, Kaaitheater in Brussels, Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, Baltic Circle in Helsinki, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and Kunsthalle Wien.