Masha Svyatogor

Store window with a black-and-white collage of historical photos showing people at strike actions on a red background with the text "EVERYBODY STRIKE".

Wall installation with multiple small rectangular collages and photographs arranged on a large black-and-white patterned background.

Wall with multiple black-and-white and color photographs and illustrations including skeleton figures and groups of people on a black background with small white figures.

Pattern of many small colored rectangles arranged in rows and columns.

Collage of black-and-white photographs featuring people, a submarine, a ship, droplet patterns, and abstract shapes framed by jagged edges.

Key Facts

Nationality

Belarus

Area

Visual Arts

Place of residence

Minsk

Recommending Institution

BMEIA

Period

June – July 2022

Links

www.mashasvyatogor.com

@svyatogormasha

Masha Svyatogor (b.1989) is a Belarusian visual artist based in Minsk, Belarus.She graduated from the Belarusian State University (2013) where she studied philology. Masha debuted in 2017 with a solo exhibition “Kurasoushchyna, My Love“ at Cech art space in Minsk, Belarus.

Her work has been shown internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK Leipzig), Germany, 2022; Arsenał gallery in Białystok, Poland (2022); Prix Levallois in France (2021); KVOST SchauFenster in Berlin (2021); Visage(s) d’Europe in Paris (2021); Circulation(s) festival in Paris (2020); Vintage Photo Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland (2020); Konstepidemin Art Center in Göteborg, Sweden (2019); Obscura Festival of Photography in Penang, Malaysia (2018); Fotopub Festival in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (2017); Queering Yerevan festival in Armenia (2017), etc.

Masha has become one of the recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Award 2021. She has been selected as “Ones to Watch 2021“ by British Journal of Photography. In 2021, Masha received the Special Mention Prize of the Prix Levallois. She was nominated as one of the “Futures Talents 2020“ by Fotofestiwal Łódź.

In addition, Masha’s art has been featured in the De Standaard, British Journal of Photography, GUP magazine, Calvert Journal, i-D,Fisheye, Feature Shoot, etc.

Project info

During my stay at the residency I would like to continue working on my latest series on human fragility and vulnerability in political and social contexts.