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 named after A. D. Sakharov, Belarusian State University, 2014–2019
Master of Arts
European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2022–2024
Photography
Academy of Photography “Fotografika”, 2022–2025
Exhibitions
Lunae
group exhibition, Cultural Center “Korpus”, Minsk, 2019
Headwaters
solo exhibition, Zerno, Minsk, 2021
Most-21
national photo-art festival, Union of Photographers, Palace of Arts, Minsk, April 2021
Wall: Women and Justice
group exhibition, Osh Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after T. Sadykov, Kyrgyzstan, 2022
— photoprints in the collection of the Museum of Feminist+ Art Central Asia
Tam, Dze Dobra
group exhibition, Zerno, Minsk, August 2023
Pojma
group exhibition, Vilnius, May 2023
Artworks by Master’s Degree Students
group exhibition, ArtVilnius, 2023
X / Just Black Out My Name
exhibition as part of Malmö Pride, Malmö, Summer 2024
Belonging to the End of the World
group exhibition, Lithuanian Artists’ Association Project Space, Vilnius, March — April 2025
Art in a Burning House: All Too Good, a Neighbour’s Fool
group exhibition, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kaunas, February 2026
Superglue, or Inventing the Friend
group exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, April — September 2026
Guest Lectures, Talks & Workshops
Workshop Cyanotype: Preserved Bloom in Blue & Artist Talk, Nordic Summer University, Oslo 2022