Daniella Kaliada

cultural strategist, artist and activist

Daniella Kaliada is a Belarusian-born multidisciplinary artist, activist, and cultural strategist whose life and work are shaped by exile and resistance. Forced to flee Belarus with her parents, she became politically active at an early age; at thirteen she addressed the British Parliament, urging sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime and the release of political prisoners. Since then she has spoken at major international conferences representing Belarus Free Theatre and the We Remember Foundation, and she is the host of Monologue for Two, an online programme created by the Ministry of Counter Culture. Alongside her advocacy, Kaliada has built a distinctive artistic practice spanning theatre, translation, and visual culture. She has translated more than a dozen plays, including an acclaimed adaptation of Alhierd Bacharevič’s Dogs of Europe. In 2016 her work on memory and the Nazi occupation received special recognition in the exhibition EPIC CIC, curated by the Saatchi Gallery. Currently, Kaliada is developing a multi-sensory pavilion designed to reclaim the narrative of Belarus at international art fairs. It is a project that fuses artistic innovation with political defiance and positions Belarusian cultural identity within a global context.