Kristina Paustian (*1985 in Omsk / Russia, lives in Berlin) works with video art, film, video installation, and video performance and is a founding member of UNST, a collective of media artists, curators, and academics dedicated to the development of experimental exhibition formats for time-based media. Paustian examines cultural-anthropological and sociopolitical issues in her work, exploring the complexity of seeing and being seen. Her films engage with identity and memory politics and the staging of gender roles and feminism, as well as bodily gestures and the appropriation of behavioral norms.