Curator’s Perspective: Antonina Stebur
If Infrastructure Fails, What Remains?

Drawing on her political and activist background, she approaches curating not as something outside systems, but as a practice working within their fractures. In the exhibition Sense of Safety (Kharkiv, 2024), curating operates as a way of holding fragile relations and making space for collective experience. In What Are Our Collective Dreams? (Warsaw), the focus shifts to how connections and interdependencies are produced under unequal conditions, while the transmediale 2027 exhibition extends this approach further, treating curating itself as a form of infrastructure that enables connection.

Across these projects, Stebur proposes curating as a form of counter-infrastructure: not representation, but a way of organising relations, sustaining fragile connections, and responding to conditions shaped by war, displacement, extractivism, and technological regimes.

Antonina Stebur is a curator and researcher working across exhibitions, assemblies, and long-term collaborative projects. She is Editor-in-Chief of AWC Journal and founder of Mycelium [Грыбнiца], a decolonial research lab. Her recent projects include What Are Our Collective Dreams? (2025, Warsaw) and Sense of Safety (2024, Kharkiv). She has contributed to documenta 15, Manifesta 14, ZKM, and Theatertreffen Berlin, and is currently curating the transmediale 2027 anniversary exhibition.

Curator’s Perspective is a series of talks at Almaty Museum of Arts that brings together diverse curatorial practices and approaches across different regions and contexts.

The event takes place in Russian. Participation is free upon registration.