Katsiaryna Miats.
Working with memory, mimicry, and the right to opacity.
I am a interdisciplinary artist, journalist, feminist and queer activist.
I was born in Polesia (b. 1996), a wetland region in the south of Belarus, where the landscape and rhythms of the swamp shaped my early sensibility and perception of time.
In my practice, I explore the right to opacity, mimicry, belonging, and the vulnerability of bodies under shifting political, social, and ecological conditions.
I work with analog photography, video, scanography, field recordings, and archival fragments. My practice is grounded in the female gaze and queer optic, through which I search for strategies of resistance to the normalizing gaze.
I hold a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the European Humanities University (Vilnius). My earlier academic background in environmental and genetic sciences continues to shape my attention to interconnected systems, fragile ecologies, and the politics of the body, reinforcing the interdisciplinary character of my approach.
Education
Biologist-analyst (department of genetics and ecology) | International State Ecological Institute. A. D. Sakharova at the Belarusian State University (2014 – 2019 )
Master of Arts | European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania (2022 – 2024)
Photography | Academy of Photography “Fotografika” (2022 – 2025)
Exhibitions
group exhibition lunae | cultural center “korpus”, minsk (2019)
solo exhibition headwaters | zerno, minsk (april 2021)
national photo-art festival most-21 | union of photographers, palace of arts, minsk (april 2021)
group exhibition wall: women and justice | osh regional museum of fine arts named t. sadykov, kyrgyzstan (2022) — photoprints in the collection of the museum of feminist+ art central asia
group exhibition tam, dze dobra | zerno, minsk (august 2023)
group exhibition pojma | vilnius (may 2023)
group exhibition / artworks by master’s degree students | artvilnius’2023 (2023)
exhibition as part of malmö pride | x / just black out my name | malmö, sweden (summer 2024)
group exhibition belonging to the end of the world | lithuanian artists association project space, vilnius (march–april 2025)
Guest Lectures, Talks & Workshops
Workshop Cyanotype: Preserved Bloom in Blue & Artist Talk | Nordic Summer University | Oslo, Norway (2022)