Language: English.
Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 4th floor.

Free admission. Registration online.

At the presentation of the book Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline (ed. by Philipp Goll, adocs Hamburg 2026), the discussants will examine the gas pipelines that stretch from Siberia to Western Europe. Based on the research project Leak. The End of the Pipeline by Philipp Goll, Oleksiy Radynski, and Hito Steyerl, the event will tackle the ecological implications of Russian colonialism and inter-imperial gas pipeline deals between (West) Germany and (Soviet) Russia since the 1970s, the situation of Indigenous peoples in Russian-occupied territories, and anti-colonial activism in northern Eurasia against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. Her work addresses media, technology, and the global circulation of images through video installations, digital environments, and writing. She is Professor for Emergent Digital Media at the Munich Art Academy and co-runs, with Francis Hunger, the research platform at AdbK Munich.

Philipp Goll is a freelance author and cultural researcher combining artistic methods of knowledge production across theory, film and dance. Since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine Philipp's research focus has turned towards the history of the German-Russian gas trade petro-aggression and activism against extractivism. Recent publications include Western Dissidenz (Spector 2025) on literary activism in Western German popular culture since 1968.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films were presented at the Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, where he won the Grand Prix for his film Chornobyl 22. His texts have been published by e-flux journal, The Atlantic, and Die Tageszeitung, among other publications. Since 2008, he’s been involved with the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv. Radynski is also a co-founder of the filmmaking collective Kinotron Group.

Tjan Zaotschnaja is a Soviet dissident and human rights activist who advocates the rights of indigenous people suppressed by (Soviet) Russia since the 1980s. After she was expelled by the Soviet authorities, Tjan moved to Munich, and since then has been informing the public about the impact of resource extraction on the indigenous ways of life, as Germany and Europe were the main consumers of Russian oil, gas, and coal before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She is a member of the Munich group of the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) and the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICPR).