20/08/2026
Anastasia Kolas is the Artist in Residence at Künstlerhof Frohnau for the months of July and August 2026. Across disciplines, Anastasia’s work explores what she call “aesthetics of disappointment” or the homogenizing forces of globalized modernity.
https://anastasiakolas.com
During her residency at KHF, Anastasia’s been working on a new film project exploring emotional lives of archives. The project incorporates documentary films made by her grandmother, the Soviet-Belarusian filmmaker Elena Kolas, and is supported by Canada Council for the Arts.
As part of KHF Open Studios on September 5 and 6, 2026, Anastasia Kolas will present her recent video work Setup / Upset (2026). Through imagined conversations at the European Parliament in Brussels and around the grounds of Acropolis in Athens, the video explores the relationship between grand narratives of European identity and the everyday labour that sustains these monumental sites.
Images:
Video stills from Setup / Upset (2026) 10’15, HD, 16:9, .mov
Portrait photograph: Roderick Aichinger
Anastasia Kolas is a forthcoming 2026/2027 research fellow at inherit.heritage inherit. heritage in transformation , the Centre for Advanced Study at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.