Polina Stohnushko, born 1994 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and based in Berlin, is an intervention artist and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung PhD graffiti scholar at the University of Passau. She is also part of the PhD program "Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices," a collaborative initiative involving UZH, ETH Zurich, and ZHdK. Stohnushko completed her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2016) and her M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Tübingen (2019) as a DAAD scholar. She held a scholarship for spatial practitioners at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2022). Her research focuses on graffiti with social and political statements, as well as the politics of city space. Polina creates text-based, site-specific interventions in city space, many of which are unauthorized. Her work combines sociological insight, civic activism, extensive research on graffiti as alternative democratic media, and a strong belief in city space as a crucial platform for political action and speech—addressing urgent societal issues and fostering civil society