Maryna Shtanko is a visual artist, photographer, and bookmaker born in 1992 in Poltava, Ukraine. In 2009-2022 she lived and worked in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Maryna had to flee abroad. She is currently based in Kiel, Germany, where she studies photography at Muthesius Academy of Art. In her artistic practice, Maryna questions migration, personal freedom, memory, and phobias. She mainly works with analog photography and explores other media like bookmaking, textile, text, and embroidery.
EDUCATION:
2023-now M.A. Photography, Muthesius Academy of Art, Kiel, DE
2017-2019 Photography courses, Chekachkov Photo Academy, Kharkiv, UA
2013-2014 M.A. German Language & Literature, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin University
2009-2013 B.A. German Language & Literature, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin University
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS:
2024 DAAD Study Scholarship in the field of art, Bonn, DE
2024 Nathan Altman's Prize, Vinnytsya, UA, finalist
2024 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, AT, scholarship
2023 Münzenberg Forum Art Competition, Berlin, DE, 1st prize winner
2023 FRESH EYES Talent by GUP Magazine, NL, finalist
2022 Urbanautica Institute Awards, US, special mention
2021 Female Ukrainian Photographers, Odesa Photo Days, UA, finalist
RESIDENCIES:
2023 Wo lang?, Altenburg, DE
2022 pARTner Residenz, Feldkirch, AT
2022 Verzasca Foto Festival, Frasco, CH
BOOKS:
2024 Under Suspicion, 8 copies + 1 AP, self-published
2023 A Time to Plant and a Time to Destroy, 30 copies, self-published
2021 Escape, 30 copies + 2 APs, self-published
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:
2024
- Nathan Altman's Prize for Young Artists, Vinnytsya, UA
- Einblick/Ausblick, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE
- Вглиб себе: Методом Експлорації, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, UA
2023
- Lens of Innocence, Galerie Geraldine Banier, Paris, FR
- Münzenberg Forum, FMP1, Berlin, DE
- FRESH EYES 2023, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam, NL
- Perspectives on War and Belonging, galerie KUB, Leipzig, DE
- Von Zuhause, Wo lang?, Altenburg, DE // duo exhibition
- Art is Home, Galerie K55, Heilbronn, DE
- Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s-now, ChaShaMa, New York, US
- Relationships, Im Raum, Vienna, AT
2022
- rûm Issue °V, Oag Kulturraum, Graz, AT
- We No Longer Feel the Future, MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
- Heidelberger Fotopreis, Stadtbücherei, Heidelberg, DE
- razom together,Fluc, Vienna, AT
- Breathing Houses, Verzasca Foto Festival, Gordola, CH
- reStart’22, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, LT
- Days of Photography, iManaLab, Nova Gorica, SI
- Colored Lenses: Life Among Others, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, UA, online
2021
- Light Conversation: Vol. 2, Small Talk Collective, Portland, US, screening
- Isolation | Freedom, Kranj Foto Fest, SI
- Female Ukrainian Photographers, Odesa Photo Days, UA, screening
- Stories, Ph21 Gallery, Budapest, HU
- The Dreamer, LoosenArt, Rome, IT
2018
- Accommodation, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, UA
- Kharkiv, how we don`t see it, Parade-Fest, Kharkiv, UA
- Starting point, COME IN, Kharkiv, UA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Slanted, British Journal of Photography, FK Magazine, Fast Forward, Conceptual Projects, The Space In Between, Float Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Aint Bad, Incandescent Zine (Issue 19), rûm (issue °V, issue °VI),Pearl Press, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Kiosk of Democracy, Don’t Take Pictures, Outlast Journal, DECALOGUE Magazine, The Luna Collective
2024
- Nathan Altman's Prize for Young Artists, Vinnytsya, UA
- Einblick/Ausblick, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE
- Вглиб себе: Методом Експлорації, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, UA
2023
- Lens of Innocence, Galerie Geraldine Banier, Paris, FR
- Münzenberg Forum, FMP1, Berlin, DE
- FRESH EYES 2023, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam, NL
- Perspectives on War and Belonging, galerie KUB, Leipzig, DE
- Von Zuhause, Wo lang?, Altenburg, DE // duo exhibition
- Art is Home, Galerie K55, Heilbronn, DE
- Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s-now, ChaShaMa, New York, US
- Relationships, Im Raum, Vienna, AT
2022
- rûm Issue °V, Oag Kulturraum, Graz, AT
- We No Longer Feel the Future, MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
- Heidelberger Fotopreis, Stadtbücherei, Heidelberg, DE
- razom together,Fluc, Vienna, AT
- Breathing Houses, Verzasca Foto Festival, Gordola, CH
- reStart’22, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, LT
- Days of Photography, iManaLab, Nova Gorica, SI
- Colored Lenses: Life Among Others, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, UA, online
2021
- Light Conversation: Vol. 2, Small Talk Collective, Portland, US, screening
- Isolation | Freedom, Kranj Foto Fest, SI
- Female Ukrainian Photographers, Odesa Photo Days, UA, screening
- Stories, Ph21 Gallery, Budapest, HU
- The Dreamer, LoosenArt, Rome, IT
2018
- Accommodation, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, UA
- Kharkiv, how we don`t see it, Parade-Fest, Kharkiv, UA
- Starting point, COME IN, Kharkiv, UA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Slanted, British Journal of Photography, FK Magazine, Fast Forward, Conceptual Projects, The Space In Between, Float Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Aint Bad, Incandescent Zine (Issue 19), rûm (issue °V, issue °VI),Pearl Press, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Kiosk of Democracy, Don’t Take Pictures, Outlast Journal, DECALOGUE Magazine, The Luna Collective