Dana Kavelina

Dana Kavelina’s new stop-motion film, as intended by its screenplay, follows two exhausted bodies wandering through the Ukrainian landscape: one a soldier, the other a dairy cow, both lost. The soil is another character in the film—wounded, exploited as a resource, but still holding the bodies straight and giving them ground. The film’s script and its production are suddenly interrupted by reality, and another story begins …

Dana Kavelina (1995, Melitopol, Ukraine) is an artist who works primarily with animation and video, but also with installation, painting, and graphics. Her works often address military violence and war with regard to the victim as a political subject as well as the distance between historical and personal trauma, memory and misrepresentation. Her works have been shown at Salzburger Kunstverein (2025); 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Kyiv Perennial, Vienna (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); and M HKA, Antwerp (2022), among others. In 2022, Kavelina won the PinchukArtCentre Prize. She lives in Berlin and Lviv.