RESIDE - Key Persons
Adel Kim is a Russian-born curator currently based in Helsinki. She co-organises in the Association of Artistic Residencies of Russia and runs airofrussia.com, a database of Russian residencies. She did MA thesis research on the residency field in Russia (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and Manchester University, 2020) and wrote the first toolkit on residencies in Russian language Art Residencies: For Whom, Why, and How (2021).
Angelina Davydova is a journalist and environmental/climate expert based in Berlin. She is a fellow with the program Media in Cooperation and Transition and a climate projects coordinator with the cross-border journalistic network n-ost (Berlin). She is also a co-host of a podcast the Eurasian Climate Brief and a member of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group. Angelina has been an observer with the UNFCCC since 2008.
Miina Hujala is an artist and curator that has been curating the Finnish-Russian residency programme Connecting Points at HIAP (Helsinki International Artist programme) from 2016, she is also a curator of a display window art space called Alkovi in Helsinki (from 2009).