Laktionova
Director, Editor, Visual artist
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June 4, 2025
The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #10 — The Voice of Documentary
Before the festival wrapped on May 24, Film Comment partnered with Cannes Docs, the nonfiction-focused section of the Marché du film, on a panel titled “The Voice of Documentary.” Moderated by FC Editor Devika Girish, the panel convened three practitioners of radical nonfiction—Eduardo Williams (The Human Surge 3), Brett Story (Union), and Zoya Laktionova (Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface)—to unpack the ethical and practical ways in which documentaries use sound, voice, and audio to speak to us and shape us as listeners.
May 16, 2025
CANNES DOCS: Doc Talk > Film Comment Live: The Voice of Documentary - Ethics & Pragmatics of Audio in Nonfiction Panel
Cannes, France
Palais Stage (Palais -1) & Online
14:00-15:00
Pooja Rangan Amherst College | Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Eduardo Williams Filmmaker, Zoya Laktionova Film director and contemporary artist, Devika Girish Film Comment | Editor
Curated by DAE - Documentary Association of Europe & Film Comment
May 10-Aug. 31, 2025
GROUP EXHIBITION: And the Wind Will Take Us Away
Panevezys, Lithuania
Respublikos 40, STASYS MUSEUM
The exhibition introduces participating artists from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway, with a particularly emphasis on Ukrainian artists. The exhibition contemplates historical events that, in certain ways, are repeating themselves today. Artists: Eero Alev, Katya Buchatska, Vija Celmins, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Kristaps Epners, Gabrielė Griciūtė, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Edith Karlson, Zoya Laktionova, Alina Lamakh, Kris Lemsalu, Dainius Liškevičius, Laura Põld, Marharyta Polovinko, Viktoriia Rozentsveih, Solveig Settemsdal, Paulius Šliaupa, Jaan Toomik, Ivar Veermäe, Lina Albrikienė
Apr.22, 2025
CANNES DOCS: Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes – has just revealed its Spotlighted Projects for 2025
Next pitch for Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface has been announced. Spotlighted Projects’ “Speedy Pitches!” session is on 17 May at 14:00, live at the Palais Stage.
See you in Cannes!
Apr.22, 2025
CINEUROPA: Zoya Laktionova • Director of Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface
We caught up with the Ukrainian director to discuss her new project, the winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Visions du Réel
Apr.11, 2025
SCREEN DAILY: Ukrainian documentary takes top prize at Visions du Reel industry awards
Zoya Laktionova’s Ukrainian documentary Ashes Settling In Layers On The Surface took home the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award at the Visions du Reel industry awards.
Apr.9, 2025
VARIETY: Zoya Laktionova’s Mariupol Memoir Wins Big at Visions du Réel’s Industry Awards
Zoya Laktionova’s “Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface,” a deeply personal reconstruction of family life in wartime Mariupol, has won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the prize-giving of Visions du Réel’s industry section, VdR–Industry.
Mar.7-Apr.16, 2025
PERSONAL EXHIBITION: Memory Practices
Kyiv, Ukraine
Igorivska 1/8 UKRAЇNKA Gallery
Memory Practices is a solo exhibition of Zoya Laktionova that was created and first exhibited at AncaPoterasu Gallery in 2024 (Bucharest, Romania). Exploring the manipulation, the exhibition Memory Practices delves into the delicate nature of memory and its vulnerability to distortion.
Feb.7-8, 2025
OPEN STUDIOS: Les Rencontres de Montmartre
Paris, Cité internationale des arts
Montmartre site
15, rue de l'Abreuvoir 75018
For this year's open days at its Montmartre site, the Cité internationale des arts invites you to discover the practice and work in progress of artists in residence:
Baff Akoto, Fedora Akimova, M’barka Amor, Judith Auffray, Anna Biriulina, Alice Brygo, Loucia Carlier, Sorour Darabi, Juliana Dorso, Basmah Felemban, Eve Fowler, Damien Fragnon, Omar Fidel García, Zoya Laktionova, Estelle Labes, Aurelia Lüscher, Weronika Marianna, Kenrick McFarlane, Marisol Mendez, Benny Nemer, Myriam Omar Awadi, Chae Biole Park, Emilie Pitoiset, Gaby Sahhar, Wantanee Siripattananuntakul, Suzanne Treister, Cléo Totti, Ali Tnani, Amalia Vekri, Evita Vasiljeva
Nov.15-17, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: Warsaw, My Warsaw (Poland)
Warsaw
Jasna 10
Presentation of the 20 HECTARES a new multimedia work by Zoya Laktionova and Kayarzyna Szyngiera. The Warsaw War Memorial Cemetery for Soviet Soldiers, also called the Mausoleum, occupies almost twenty hectares in the city center, close to Mokotowski Field, which is five and a half times larger than it is. We propose to rethink this space and the memory it holds through five renovation concepts.
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Oct.24-Nov.24, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: AFAR: TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PROJECT
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU
Trg žrtava fašizma 16, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
The exhibition presents the results of the two-year European project Artists for Artists Residency Network, which aimed to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while also creating greater opportunities for women in the arts.
Exhibiting artists: Željko Beljan (HR), Bik Van der Pol (NL), Tanja Boukal (AT), Larisa Crunțeanu (RO), Megan Dominescu (RO), Nikolina Hrgović Knežević (HR), Zoya Laktionova (UA), Sarah McNulty (DK), Iza Tarasewicz (PL), Eve Woods (IE)
Oct.11-25, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: ᴀ ᴠᴇꜱꜱᴇʟ. ᴀ ᴄᴀɢᴇ. ᴀ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ. ᴀ ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ.
Minuszwei
Domgasse 6, 1010 Vienna
The exhibition "A Vessel. A Cage. A Machine. A Temple." questions and interrogates the representation of the body in (post-)heteronormative society and contemporary art from a queer-feminist, decolonialist and antiracist position.
Artists: Jupiter Rhae Braun, Vinko Nino Jaeger, Zoya Laktionova, Naa Teki Martey Lebar, Frederik Marroquín, Danielle Pamp, Damien Rouxel, Francis Ruyter, Siggi Sekira, Shiraz Soeker, Camila Téllez & Eszter Katalin.
Sep.14-Oct.13, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: DE/CODING TEXTILE. CONTEMPORARY ART REFLECTING TEXTILE TRADITIONS
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
Artists: Yasmina Assbane, Yana Bachynska, Željko Beljan, Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik & Jos Van der Pol), Tanja Boukal, Anetta Mona Chișa, Larisa Crunțeanu, Megan Dominescu, Bernhard Frue, Aurora Kiraly, Zoya Laktionova, Kamruz-zaman Shadhin, Iza Tarasewicz, Christina Zurfluh