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’