Sviatlana Petushkova

Sviatlana Petushkova is an interdisciplinary visual artist, born in 1990 in Minsk,
Belarus. In 2020, for protest art, active civic position and participation in protests
against dictatorship and violence in Belarus, she was subjected to political
repression and forced to flee Belarus, now she is a political refugee in Lithuania.
In Minsk, Sviatlana worked as a curator and founded the Belarusian Graphics
House, the only graphic printing studio in Belarus. She also served as a curator at
the Republican Art Gallery and actively contributed to the development of
Belarusian contemporary art by organizing art festivals and cultural events.
In 2022, due to her support for Ukraine and political position, Sviatlana was expelled
from both the Belarusian Union of Artists and the Belarusian Union of Designers.
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Union of Artists, where she
actively develops her career, participates in competitions and exhibitions, and
continues her creative work and civic engagement.
Her artistic practice spans multiple media, including analog photography,
printmaking, and spatial installations, exploring themes of migration, identity,
acculturation, and the concept of home in a global context. Her art reflects...

2023 - 2025 - VDA, Master of Art (Graphic department)

2015 - 2016 - Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Master of Arts (incomplete)

2009 - 2015 - Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Graphics, Bachelor of Arts

1997 - 2009 - Minsk State Art Gymnasium-College, College of Arts, Textiles, Specialist

2024 - Project “Confession”,Bernardinu church, Vilnius, Lithuania

2024 - Project “ARTIFACTS”,GODO gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2024 - Project “Detailing”, Create Culture Space, Vilnius, Lithuania

2023 - Project “Footprints”, GODO gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2022 - Solo exhibition “Project 27”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius, Lithuania

2022 - Solo exhibition “Make Love”, GODO gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2021 - Solo exhibition “Project 27”, Lukiškės prison, Vilnius, Lithuania

2020 - Virtual solo exhibition “P+B”

2015 - Solo exhibition “Maturity”, Gallery “Academy”, Minsk, Belarus

2014 - Solo exhibition “Under The Water”, Gallery “New Day”, Minsk, Belarus

2013 - Solo exhibition “Neon Life”, Film House, Minsk, Belarus

2012 - Solo exhibition “All My Life”, Gallery-club “Graffiti”, Minsk, Belarus