Katsiaryna Sheliahovich

Katsiaryna is a multimedia artist born in Minsk, Belarus (1992). Her practice moves across installation, light sculpture, sound, public intervention, and object-making - united by a single obsession: transformation. How grief becomes form. How memory becomes material.

She left Belarus in 2016. After the 2020 uprising she began speaking openly against Lukashenko’s regime - and the last time she was able to return was 2022, before open dissent became grounds for imprisonment. This experience - of watching a system erase, silence, and distort - shaped her understanding of how power works. Belarus is not only a wound. It is a lens.

Her work draws on Belarusian mythology, feminist resistance, ecological fragility, and the quiet violence of systems that erase. She is drawn to the moment when one thing becomes another: grass becomes an angel, a Soviet washbasin becomes a bell, a catastrophe reversed becomes something not of this world - and yet entirely of it.

Her installations combine light, simple mechanics, natural elements, sound, and movement to build spatial situations that are both research-based and deeply felt. Her public interventions use minimal, non-invasive materials - often childhood objects - to open political questions in shared space. She moves between rigorous research and intuitive making, between natural forms and urgent present, without separating them.

Her projects have been presented at Via Farini (Milan), Gaudeamus Festival, CCA Tbilisi, and Esto Association.