Diana Berg was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, where she have lived till 2014 when she has become an activist and have initiated a pro-ukrainian movement in Donetsk in spring 2014. After she had to flee from occupied hometown, she settled in Mariupol, an industrial town at the Azov sea close to the frontline. Diana has founded Platform Tu in Mariupol in 2016 – the centre of social changes and the promotion of human rights and freedoms through arts and culture. Being the only grassroots movement in eastern Ukraine that promotes underground culture and modern arts, through their initiatives she addressed the most acute social themes like gender inequality, discrimination, ultra-right radicalism, paternalism, refugees, totalitarian propaganda, and human rights and freedoms.
Diana Berg was the head of Platform Tu space and Tu art-group, being both the curator and the leader of our right defending work, for 6 years. In March 2022 she managed to survive the blockade and escape from Mariupol, occupied by Russia, to relocate to Kyiv and transform the activities to the realities of war. After losing everything for the second time, Platform Tu still manages to work - volunteering, delivering humanitarian aid, evacuating people from occupation, fundraising for refugees, and saving museums on the frontline. Besides, Tu continues cultural project - Diana has coordinated the only Ukrainian program on Documenta fifteen this year in Kassel, Citizenship Ukraine, involving German intellectuals to talk TO ukrainians, not ABOUT us, co-organized the Ukrainian column at Berlin pride becoming the author of the slogan "Arm Ukraine now, make pride in Mariupol possible". At the moment, the team of Platform Tu is developing the online-memorial of Mariupol culture "Memoriupol".