Polina is a core team member of Lernlabor, a Berlin-based social business that creates innovative educational, cultural and artistic projects.
She is a member of the Palace Collective, is an international creative network and events organisation focused on cross-disciplinary collaboration, self organisation and arts based community development.
Links: INSTAGRAM, CV
‘Attunement in Practice’ was a final exhibition inviting audience to engage with residents’ work through performances, installations, readings and somatic sessions.
Fourteen residents (8 from Berlin, 6 from abroad) were offered 24/7 access to the Medley space in Berlin-Mitte and an invitation to gather, work, play, produce, host events, and explore the common space. More about Medley Residency
Polina's role: community manager, curator and producer
of final exhibition
Autumn 2022
Apart from sheer beauty of singing together, the community choir Singen3000 has set its goal to increase the accessibility of communal singing for people without music education. This is achieved by integrating intuitive folk songs into the repertoire and creating audio learning materials for more complex arrangements.
In the season of 2022-2023 with the support of European Solidarity Corps the choir is aiming to extend its community and reach out to people displaced by Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Singen3000 Choir Instagram
Polina's role: coaching, fundraising
Funders: Solidarity Project - European Solidarity Corps
Musical director and conductor George Adje
2021 - ongoing
Climate Caravans is an Art and Ecology residency that brought artists, activists and researchers together to explore the themes of ecosocial balance. By exchanging practises, engaging with the environment and creating artworks the project aimed to draw attention to the climate emergency and foster resilience through exploring sustainable relationships and community-focused artistic practices.
Read more about Climate Caravans
Polina's Role: Curator, Producer
Funders: European Cultural Foundation, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
Organisers: Lernlabor Berlin and CSF
Location: Haus des Wandels, Brandenburg, Germany
May 2022
Connected through a common programme and characterised by continual dialogue PARALLEL provided the opportunity for 16 artists to engage with these questions and collaborate across borders and disciplines in the framework of a dual residency: in the heart of urban Tbilisi in Georgia and rural Schloss Schönow in Germany.
Residency culminated in the series of live performances and collaborative artworks, which were presented and curated online.
More about PARALLEL project
Polina's role: Concept, Curation, Production
Funders: EVZ Stiftung
Organisers: Lernlabor in Germany and Propaganda Network in Georgia
November 2021
Polina's role: Concept, Curation, Production
Funders: EVZ Stiftung
December 2020
DARK PLANET is one of seven hybrid a:part performances happening in real time with Vartan Markarian painting live in Virtual Reality and sharing through VR Cam Capture in Poltava, Ukraine and STACY.O playing live electronic set in Berlin, Germany.
Polina's role: Co-Curation, Production
Funders: Fonds Darstellende Künste
Gerswalde, 2021
Polina's role: Art Direction, Vocals, Guitar, Songwriting
Polly Tikk Band
Berlin, 2017