As an art community, ODRA is thrilled to share its manifesto. We publish some parts, and a full version could be found on the platfrom odraplatform.com
'</odra> is an open platform for the Eastern European art community and beyond, offering a new outlook on the contemporary art of the countries often underrepresented by the mainstream. Our mission is to help artists, curators, researchers, critics and all other members of the community to be heard and seen, and make it easier for them to integrate into the global art context.’
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We welcome artists, authors, researchers and other art participants who share our manifesto, to become an ODRA member.
Welcome to new </odra>. After a year of growth, we are presenting a new version 2.0.
‘One of ODRA’s most important goals is to explore and illuminate contemporary culture in Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet countries, and to create an open platform for local artistic initiatives.
That is why ODRA's new identity is based on the idea of an open interface or a digital window, where the exchange of experience takes place organically from the first person. And ODRA is only the code that triggers this interface and allows others to write their own commands to create an original cultural reality.’
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There’s something quietly radical about choosing silence when your source material is all talk.
Thomas Mann’s ‘The Magic Mountain’ is notoriously verbose — a 700-page philosophical marathon set in a tuberculosis sanatorium, where characters debate the nature of time, death, and European civilization as if words alone could keep them alive. And perhaps, for them, they could.
Petr Kirusha @pjotrs.kirjusa doesn’t argue with that. He simply sets it aside. What he offers instead is what the novel never quite shows: the interior life of the body itself. Paint that clusters and disperses. Lungs that glow from within. Figures caught somewhere between disintegration and becoming.
Full review by Alexander Bykovski @abykoos on odraplatform.com — link in bio.
The conversation between artist Yanis Proshkinas @proshkinas_ and art critic Boris Klyushnikov @borisklyshnikov explores labor in the art industry, the rising impact of AI, and how pressure to meet business KPIs affects creative processes.
You can find the full artist talk on our website, link in our Stories or in bio.
Thank you to everyone who took part in our open call ’’Craft and Environmental Narratives in Central Asian Art Today’’ for the /essays section. We’ve received all the submissions and are currently reviewing them — we’ll be back with updates soon.
Photos from the Bukhara Biennial by Madina Karimova @madkarry
In September 2025, Kazakhstan welcomed the opening of a major new museum of contemporary art. We’ve taken a closer look at the exhibitions that have already launched. Check our new post!
Photo credit: Almaty Museum of Arts @almatymuseumofarts
Amazon Prime Video has acquired the rights to stream four films by Yakut director Stepan Burnashev, including Aita — a film currently banned from public streaming in Russia. Soon it will be available in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the UK, and several European countries. Global platforms continue to discover the power of independent cinema from the North.
Recently we’ve already published the research about cultural context in Yakutia. You can find a link in our Stories!
ODRA Platform has become a media partner of the exhibition „It happened to me“ at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre @winzavod , one of the leading institutions in Eastern Europe.
You can find the key highlights in our post.
The artist of the cover work is @dmitrygutov .
This is last call: craft and environmental narratives in Central Asian art today
ODRA launches an open call to give visibility to artists, curators, and researchers from Central Asia whose practices explore craft, ecology, and the shifting relationships between tradition and environment.
We are waiting for your essays or pitches in English.
How to apply: send your application to the email address odraplatform.com with the subject line <Open call: Central Asia>
Put your short biography including your name and professional background.
Submissions are open until November 15.
Guest curator: Aziza Sharopova @aiza.atakhan
More in our highlight <Open call>.
