Yevgenia Belorusets is a writer and artist working at the intersection of literature, photography, and social activism.

Her photographic work focuses on vulnerable and often overlooked communities in Ukraine, including queer families, coal miners, Roma communities, and people living in the war-torn eastern regions. Her work was shown in the Ukrainian Pavilion at both the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale.

Lucky Breaks, her first work of fiction, received the HKW International Literature Award in Germany in 2020. For A Wartime Diary, she was honored with the Schering Stiftung Special Award for Artistic Research and the Horst Bingel Preis for Literature in 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the Preis Frau Europas, and in 2025, the Alice Salomon Poetik Preis.

Her recent projects explore memory and loss, the infrastructures of everyday life, and human and non-human forms of coexistence. Navigating the fringes of documentary, fiction, and realism, she explores how experience and testimony are shaped by storytelling and imagination.

Yevgenia Belorusets has been documenting everyday life during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022. 

She lives and works in Berlin and Kyiv.

Manifesto, written for Secondary Archive (Dec.2021)

Selected exhibitions
Selected publications
Prizes, fellowships, lecturing