Oleg Zhukov, born in Odessa, Ukraine, lives and works as a performer, director, dramaturge and author with Raumlabor Berlin, Rimini Protokoll, fringe ensemble and Michikatzu Matsune, among others. His theater engagements have taken him to Theater Oberhausen, Theater Bonn, HAU Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin and FFT Düsseldorf. He is co-founder of the theater collective subbotnik, which develops theater projects with a focus on performative music theater in NRW. Oleg Zhukov is the winner of the Viersen Art Prize, Literature Competition 2008, main prize for the text Lustdorf 1992 and was a fellow at LCB Berlin. He has been developing participatory projects at the FFT Düsseldorf together with choreographer Stefanie Elbers for many years. He also regularly gives workshops, most recently for the Junge Ruhrtriennale 2020. At the fringe ensemble, he directed the project “Unheimlich” and most recently took part in the series of the -> Wunderland project and in -> Garten des Widerstands.