KHARKIV RESIDENCE "SLOVO"
space for creativity, dialog and cultural exchange for artists from Ukraine and abroad
Kharkiv Art Residency "Slovo" – a place of co-creation and discovery of Kharkiv by artists from Ukraine and abroad.
Back in 2018, the Ukrainian PEN branch and the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, with the participation of the Literary Museum, established the Kharkiv Literary Residency. Our guest writers explored the city, worked in the museum, and stayed in hotels or rented apartments.
However, in 2020, the Literary Museum acquired two unique apartments, purchased by the Naboka family from Kharkiv: Petro Lisovyi’s apartment in the "Slovo" building and Yurii Sheveliov’s apartment in the "Salamandra" building.
Now, the Residency is a tangible place on the map of Kharkiv, filled with active cultural life. Here, artists not only work on new projects but also organize intimate gatherings open to all. These walls host lectures, presentations, literary readings, concerts, and informal meetings. In such moments, the memorial spaces transform into the ordinary apartments of creative people, as if joined by the writers of "Slovo" and Yurii Sheveliov himself.
All authors, in one way or another, become ambassadors of Kharkiv:
- establishing connections between various projects and creative communities;
- sharing their residency experiences on social media;
- marking books as "written at the residency in Kharkiv";
- publishing essays in national media about their work in Kharkiv;
- helping to dispel negative myths about the city.
Our residents over the years:
- 2018 – Liuba Paraskevia Strynadiuk.
- 2019 – Liubko Deresh, Yaroslava Strikha, Michael Zeller, Kateryna Kalytko.
- 2020 – Maksym Bespalov, Tania Radionova, Yurii Matevoshchuk, Bandi Sholtes.
- 2021 – Liuba Yakymchuk, Yaryna Tsymbal, Yurii Gurzhi, Yurii Andrukhovych, Sashko Dermanskyi, Jonathan Ben-Shaul, Ivan Andrusyak, Dara Kornii, Virlyana Tkach, Yevhenii Stasinevych.
- 2022 – Oksana Zabuzhko, Dariia Badiior. In 2022, the Residency was expected to host Ukrainian, Czech, American, British, and Egyptian artists and researchers. Instead, it welcomed war correspondents and investigators documenting Russia’s crimes against Ukrainian cultural heritage.
- In 2023, the Residency resumed its work for artists, with Viktoria Amelina as its first resident. Later in the summer, the first international guest, Polish poet Jacek Podsiadlo, arrived.
- 2024 – Ihor Maliievskyi, Pavlo Korobchuk, Ondřej Kundra, Liuba Ilnytska, Yevhenii Stasinevych, Iva Pekarkova, Alena Zemanchikova, Ivan Andrusyak, Yaryna Tsymbal, Borys Filonenko, Mar’ian Pyrozhok, Khrystyna Semeryn, Tetiana Pylypets, Petra Hulova, Adela Knapova, Maryna Kumeda, Sofiia Cheliak.
Residency Team:
The Kharkiv Literary Museum, publisher Oleksandr Savchuk, writer Serhii Zhadan, and the family of the Residency’s steadfast patron, Andrii Naboka.
The curator of Residency-2024 is Vladyslava Dermanska.
Special Thanks
To PEN Ukraine, the publishing house “Vitriani Mlyny”/Větrné mlýny (Brno), and the German “Society for the Collection of Auxiliary Copyrights GVL.”
How to Apply
Submit your application: https://forms.gle/i4y9mSZ1bByvZXCm9.
Residency on Social Media
The Residency’s social media accounts are maintained by our residents and the writers of the 1920s–30s – former residents of "Slovo" (materials prepared by Maryna Kutsenko).
Apartment 1
A space where socially important issues will be raised through exhibits. It will be a comfortable place to communicate: to argue and negotiate, to speak out and hear others, to attend thematic lectures, museum classes, watch movies, etc.
Apartment 2
A space where socially important issues will be raised through exhibits. It will be a comfortable place to communicate: to argue and negotiate, to speak out and hear others, to attend thematic lectures, museum classes, watch movies, etc.
