ABOUT

artist statement

Anastasiia Antonenko

My artistic practice revolves around exploring the fragile intersections of memory, identity, and the body. Working with analog and instant photography allows me to embrace imperfection, accident, and temporality, turning them into essential parts of the image.

I am interested in how personal and collective histories are layered, fragmented, and reshaped over time. Through abstraction and documentary approaches, I attempt to reveal what usually remains unseen: the silent weight of memory, the instability of belonging, and the intimacy of vulnerability.

By shifting between the visible and the intangible, I create spaces where the viewer can connect their own experiences with mine. Photography for me is not only a way of preserving the moment but also a process of transformation — where fragility becomes a form of strength.

bio

1996 — born in Luhansk, Ukraine.
2014–2019 — studied at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Department of Oriental Studies (Linguistics, Oriental Studies). Alongside her academic studies, she began searching for her own language in photography.
2014–2015 — completed courses at the Kyiv School of Photography, which became her first step into the medium and awakened an interest in the documentary image.
2021–2022 — studied at the School of Conceptual and Art Photography (MYPH). During this period she developed her artistic voice, moving from documentary observation toward more conceptual, poetic, and abstract approaches.
2023 — in 2023, she took part in an artist residency in Nuremberg, Germany, where she worked on projects that reflected her personal experience of displacement and the fragile intersections between private and collective memory.
2024 — since 2024, she has been living and working in Austria, continuing to explore themes of memory, identity, and the body through analog and instant photography.
her works have been exhibited internationally in Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the USA, and Ukraine.

exhibitions

Jun 2025 — The "Faces" Exhibition by Art Icon, Arles, France
Nov 2024 — Corporeality Exhibition, Art-Icon, Paris
Sep 2024 — Imagenation Milan, Exhibition Just Women
Apr 2024 — Exhibition at Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Mar 2024 — Depths of Psyche, Korsak Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art
Jan 2024 — One Day, Ukrainian Culture Center in Stockholm and Ukrainian School of Conceptual and Art Photography (MYPH)
Oct – Nov 2023 — Photopolis Festival, Greece
Oct 2023 — Fresh Eyes Selection, GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep – Oct 2023 — Cutout Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
Sep 2023 — Exhibition at Sklad 5, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Jul – Aug 2023 — If You Look Into the Void Too Long, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Jul 2023 — New Mythology, Ermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Jun – Jul 2023 — "And Will Be Silence", Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
May 2023 — Online Exhibition Baroque Application – Myph 5 Years Anniversary
Mar 2023 — War Exhibition, Mainz, Germany
Feb 2023 — Fotodok, Whispers and Shouts. Voices of Ukrainian Women Photographers
Jan 2023 — Exhibition Opening in Berlin, Kyiv Emerging
2022 — MyArt – Memory, Online & Offline Exhibition

publications

magazines

2025 — Pamplemousse Magazine, Issue #11
2025 — Bilkis Magazine #1
2024 — Art House #11
2023 — Plivka and People
2022 — Zaborona: "Our Worst Six Months"
2022 — Nakid Magazine, Ukraine

books

2024 — Conceptual Photography, CP Publishing
2023 — GUP Magazine – Fresh Eyes
2022 — MYPH – Published Works

achievements

residencies

Apr – May 2023 — residency in Nuremberg, Germany

awards

2025 — Myph Prize, Longlist
2024 — Myph Prize, Longlist