MASHA SVIATAHOR
Artist
Born in Minsk, Belarus 😱.
mashasviatahor@gmail.com
I’m available for portrait and editorial commissions. I shoot women, men, couples, nudes, and designer clothing 👽.
I also create illustrations and posters, book and album covers, and work with both analogue and digital collage 🤯️.
My works are avaliable for sale 😏️😳️😬️😇️.
Statement on Secondary Archive, a platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe
Artist
Born in Minsk, Belarus 😱.
mashasviatahor@gmail.com
I’m available for portrait and editorial commissions. I shoot women, men, couples, nudes, and designer clothing 👽.
I also create illustrations and posters, book and album covers, and work with both analogue and digital collage 🤯️.
My works are avaliable for sale 😏️😳️😬️😇️.
Statement on Secondary Archive, a platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe
SOLO SHOWS
2021
Everybody Strike!, KVOST, Berlin, Germany
2017
Kurasoushchyna, My Love, Cech Art Space, Minsk, Belarus
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025
Displacements and Torrents, Dům umění Ústí nad Labem, the Czech Republic
2024
Displacements and Torrents, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2023
Fotofestiwal Lodz, OFF Piotrkowska, Lodz, Poland
2022
Manifesta 14, within Secondary Archive, Prishtina, Kosovo
When the Sun Is Low—the Shadows Are Long, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
UNFAIR, Gashouder, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
When the Sun Is Low—the Shadows Are Long, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
A Forest Marathon, pARTizanka Party, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Feminam Aspectum, IESA gallery, Paris, France
Red Line, KKKC, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2021
Odkształcenie/Дэфармацыя/Unlearning, Domie, Poznań, Poland
Prix Levallois. City Hall, 1 place de la République, Levallois, France
Rybnicki Festiwal Fotografii, Fundacja Elektrowni, Rybnik, Poland
Visage(s) d’Europe, on the gates of the Saint-Jacques Tower, Paris, France
Machine Is Breathing, and I Am Not, Mesca Art-space, Minsk, Belarus, closed by authorities
2021
Everybody Strike!, KVOST, Berlin, Germany
2017
Kurasoushchyna, My Love, Cech Art Space, Minsk, Belarus
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025
Displacements and Torrents, Dům umění Ústí nad Labem, the Czech Republic
2024
Displacements and Torrents, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2023
Fotofestiwal Lodz, OFF Piotrkowska, Lodz, Poland
2022
Manifesta 14, within Secondary Archive, Prishtina, Kosovo
When the Sun Is Low—the Shadows Are Long, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
UNFAIR, Gashouder, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
When the Sun Is Low—the Shadows Are Long, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
A Forest Marathon, pARTizanka Party, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Feminam Aspectum, IESA gallery, Paris, France
Red Line, KKKC, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2021
Odkształcenie/Дэфармацыя/Unlearning, Domie, Poznań, Poland
Prix Levallois. City Hall, 1 place de la République, Levallois, France
Rybnicki Festiwal Fotografii, Fundacja Elektrowni, Rybnik, Poland
Visage(s) d’Europe, on the gates of the Saint-Jacques Tower, Paris, France
Machine Is Breathing, and I Am Not, Mesca Art-space, Minsk, Belarus, closed by authorities
2020
Visual Acts of Radical Care, Yale University, Virtual exhibition
Futures Digital Festival: RESET
Month of Photography. Brest Edition, Conserva Art-quarter, Brest, Belarus
Vintage Photo Festival, Department Store "Jedynak", Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dealing with Memory, EEP Berlin & OSTLOOK, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Fotofestiwal Lodz (projection), Lodz, Poland
Circulation(s) Festival, Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
STATUS—Artistic Practice and Social Change, Konstepidemin Art Center, Göteborg, Sweden
2019
How to Stay With Art Today?, KX Gallery, Brest, Belarus
Month of Photography in Minsk, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Mirror Land, Batumi Photodays, Batumi, Georgia
OSTLOOK: How to Deal with History?, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
2018
Human Impact on Landscape and Living Spaces, Fine Art Galerie, Traismauer, Austria
Self-Reflection (projection), Nida International Photography Symposium, Lithuania
Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia
OSTLOOK, Gallery 21, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany
Independence Day, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2017
Freedom (Not) Yet Again, Queering Yerevan Happening, Armenia
Hold On/Let Go, Aff Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Logpose, Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Odesa//Batumi Photo Days (screening), Batumi, Georgia
Names, Korpus, Minsk, Belarus
Visual Acts of Radical Care, Yale University, Virtual exhibition
Futures Digital Festival: RESET
Month of Photography. Brest Edition, Conserva Art-quarter, Brest, Belarus
Vintage Photo Festival, Department Store "Jedynak", Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dealing with Memory, EEP Berlin & OSTLOOK, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Fotofestiwal Lodz (projection), Lodz, Poland
Circulation(s) Festival, Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
STATUS—Artistic Practice and Social Change, Konstepidemin Art Center, Göteborg, Sweden
2019
How to Stay With Art Today?, KX Gallery, Brest, Belarus
Month of Photography in Minsk, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Mirror Land, Batumi Photodays, Batumi, Georgia
OSTLOOK: How to Deal with History?, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
2018
Human Impact on Landscape and Living Spaces, Fine Art Galerie, Traismauer, Austria
Self-Reflection (projection), Nida International Photography Symposium, Lithuania
Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia
OSTLOOK, Gallery 21, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany
Independence Day, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2017
Freedom (Not) Yet Again, Queering Yerevan Happening, Armenia
Hold On/Let Go, Aff Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Logpose, Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Odesa//Batumi Photo Days (screening), Batumi, Georgia
Names, Korpus, Minsk, Belarus
AWARDS
Prince Claus Seed Award, 2021
Prix Levallois Special Mention Prize, 2021
“Ones to Watch” Artist by British Journal of Photography, 2021
FUTURES Artist, 2020
MPM Award 2017: Winner (Photographer of the Year), 2018
RESIDENCIES
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2023–2025
Q21 Artist-in-Residence, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, 2022
Residency at the Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland, 2022
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
British Journal of Photography #7924: Body Talk (print issue), Oct–Dec 2025
Fisheye Magazine #72: Résistance (print and online), July 2025
Der Greif (Artist Feature; Blog #1, #2, #3), Nov 2023
Common Ground, European Cultural Foundation, May 2022
Kritiker #63 (print issue), April 2022
Secondary Archive Platform, Feb 2022
De Standaard (online and print), Oct 2021
GUP Magazine (print issue), Sep 2021
British Journal of Photography #7904: Ones to Watch (online and print), July–Aug 2021
WePresent, Nov 2020
Fisheye Magazine (online), June 2020
GUP Magazine (online), Feb 2020
STATUS, June 2019
Calvert Journal, Feb 2017
i-D Magazine, Dec 2016
Fisheye Magazine, 2016
Feature Shoot, May 2016