The Schering Stiftung presents Yevgenia Belorusets with the Schering Stiftung Special Award for Artistic Research, which is presented for the first time this year. It seeks to give special recognition to an artist whose work the jury of the 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research considers to be politically relevant. Her works are situated at the intersection of art, artistic research, literature, journalism, and social activism.
For years, her artistic and literary practice has focused on the political situation in Ukraine. In 2013, she captured the Maidan Uprising in Kyiv in impressive black-and-white photographs. Between 2014 and 2019, she repeatedly traveled to eastern Ukraine to investigate and describe everyday life in times of war. Her research, her photographic works, and her writings have combined to form a unique style bringing together photography and text. In recent years, Belorusets has presented ambitious long-term photography projects. These include Gogol Street 32 showing the residents of a communal apartment building in Kyiv during their daily activities in a slowly disintegrating environment, and Victories of the Defeated, for which she visited Ukrainian coal mines near the war zone in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region between 2014 and 2016 to study the workers’ lives against the background of the military conflict. Her recent publications include the books Anfang des Krieges (Beginning of war; Matthes & Seitz, 2022), Modern Animal (Isolarii, 2021), and Glückliche Fälle (Happy cases; Matthes & Seitz, 2019).
For the jury members, Belorusets’ work is of outstanding importance in light of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and thus merits particular attention. The Special Award is designed to support the artist-cum-author in her artistic and literary work, facilitate planned and future projects, and help make her work more widely known.
February 23, 2023, 6 p.m.
Award ceremony and artist talk with Yevgenia Belorusets and Katja Petrowskaja
Venue: German Bundestag
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin
To participate at the award ceremony on February 23, you must register by e-mail between February 6 and February 17, stating your full name and date of birth to kunst-raum@bundestag.de. Admission will be from 5 p.m. via the south entrance of the Reichstag building upon presentation of an identity card. We ask for binding registration, because access is limited.
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