Yulia Bardun

is cultural manager, curator and trainer, with over 15 years of professional career. Her efforts were fundamental for launching bottom-up capacity development processes in the field of culture and strengthening contemporary arts and culture sector in her native Kaliningrad region. She has first-hand experience of cross-border (both in terms of geography and disciplines) arts and culture cooperation in the EU-Russia contexts, specifically in the contemporary arts framework in the Nordic-Baltic region.