Katalin Ladik’s body art tore away the veil of conformity for Eastern European women
How Slovene author and adventurer Alma Karlin travelled solo across the globe — and fought the Nazis
Reclaiming the legacy of Anna Bunina, Russia’s first woman poet
Curvaceous shapes in cheerful colours: Ilona Keserü’s paintings wrest unbridled joy out of the grip of sorrow
The story of Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who created music for God in the atheist USSR
How the playful portraiture of 100-year-old Valentina Rusu Ciobanu captured a century of Moldovan life
How Soviet artist Anna Andreeva found freedom from state censors in fabric
Lana Gogoberidze: the feminist filmmaker at the centre of a Georgian cinematic dynasty
How Polish director Wanda Jakubowska used her own experience in Auschwitz to create ‘the mother of all Holocaust movies’
Back to Basha: the enigmatic star of the Polish Poster School who shunned the spotlight
The female gaze behind the Iron Curtain: the brilliant archive of Joanna Helander
Elizaveta Svilova: the woman behind The Man With a Movie Camera
Remembering Yanka Dyagileva, the queen of Siberian punk who died as the Soviet Union fell
Behind the surreal, satirical lens of Binka Zhelyazkova, Bulgaria’s prolific female director
The prolific life and career of Svetlana Kana Radević, Montenegro’s first female architect
How Larisa Shepitko’s pursuit of truth produced a searing legacy of anti-war films
Celebrating Czech avant-gardist Bèla Kolářová, who defied the notion that ‘the entire world has been photographed’
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