Darya Buben

Dasha Buben (1982) was born in Gomel, Belarus. In 2010, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. She worked as a photographer and art director for several independent magazines focusing on social issues, feminism, and LGBTQ rights. Due to her activism and involvement in independent media, she felt unsafe under the Belarusian regime and relocated.

In 2016, she completed her studies at the Warsaw Academy of Photography. From 2016 to 2020, her work centered around themes of domestic abuse, feminism, body positivity, and women's health.

After the significant protests in Belarus in 2020, abstraction became the primary form of her artistic expression. Her artistic research shifted towards emotions, physiological states, trauma recovery, and mental health. She utilizes painting, drawing, and other mediums such as light, text, photography, installations, and embroidery. She has held solo exhibitions in Vienna and Warsaw and has participated in group shows in Belarus, Ukraine, Germany, India.

She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Gomel State Art College, Gomel, Belarus
Belorussian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
Academy of Photography, Warsaw, Poland

Personal exhibitions:
2024 "Little Secret" UQBar Berlin, Germany
2024 "Recognition in Colors" Donde Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021 "Control Attempt" Art Gallery Poznanska24, Warsaw, Poland
2018 "Survivor" OSCE, Vienna, Austria
Selected group exhibitions:
2025 "What Memory Built In Colour" Pristine Contemporary New Delhi, India
2025 “Spanning Delta II” PAKD Gallery, Berlin Germany
2025 “Group Show 12” New and Abstract, Berlin, Germany
2025 “Fight or Flight II” StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuz- berg, Berlin, Germany
2025 “Portrature Revisited” TAA Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2024 “Anonymous drawings” Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2024 "To Feel" Gallery Pristine New Delhi, India
2024 “Re:HUMANIZE” Green Hill Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 “Wanderings Inside A Waiting Room“ Szczur Galeria, Poznan, Poland
2024 'Fight or Flight" StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2024 “Culterim | Studio Show | Herzbergstraße” Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023 "Gruss aus Biesenthal"Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023 "Mind Over Matter" Staromiejski Dom Kultury, Warsaw, Poland
2023 "Hidden Actions" Flow Art House, Warsaw, Poland
2022 "Connections" Flow Art House, Warsaw, Poland
2021 "Gray Mandorla Manifest" Gray ...