Yevgenia Belorusets b. 1980

Yevgenia Belorusets is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and partly Kiev.

Yevgenia is co-founder of the journal Prostory, the journal for literature and art, and a member of the interdisciplinary curatorial collective Hudrada. She works with photography and other forms on the intersection of art, literature and social activism. Her photographic work calls attention to the more vulnerable sections of Ukrainian society - queer families, out-of-work coal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in the East - and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale.

Lucky Breaks, her first work of fiction, was given a 2020 HKW International Literature Award in Germany. For her work on A Wartime Diary she received 2022 Schering Stiftung Special Award for Artistic Research and Horst Bingel Prise for Literature. In 2023 she was awarded with Price Frau Europas, and in 2025 - with Alice Salomon Poetik Preis. She is a member in advisory board of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and of the Zentrum Liberale Moderne.

Yevgenia has been documenting full-scale Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since 24th of February 2022.