Katia Patin

Katia Patin was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Poland’s ministry of memory spins the Holocaust.

Katia Patin is a multimedia journalist based between Washington, D.C. and Istanbul. She is the producer of Generation Gulag, a documentary series uncovering the impact of Russia’s campaign to rewrite the history of Gulag survivors, shortlisted for the One World Media Award in 2020; and of Jailed for a Like, six films telling the stories of Russians who have been prosecuted or imprisoned for their posts on social media, which was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2018. Her journalism has appeared in TIME Magazine, the Guardian, NBC, the Atlantic among other publications.

Kateryna Botanova

Kateryna Botanova was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Defined by silence.

Kateryna Botanova is a Basel-based cultural critic, curator, and writer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She writes on decoloniality, solidarity, and care with a special focus on artistic practices and societal dynamics in the Global South, Eastern Europe, and Ukraine, in particular. She is a co-curator of multidisciplinary biennial Culturescapes (Basel, Switzerland) and an editor of its anthologies. Between 2010 and 2015 she was a director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, as well as a founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Korydor. She is a member of PEN-Ukraine.

Her essays were included in Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021. Ibidem, 2021; Future We Are Longing For. Tempora, 2020; Bridges Not Walls: What Unites Ukrainians. VSL, 2020.