VISUAL ARTIST
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 and India.
She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education:
Academy of Photography, Warsaw, Poland
Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
Personal exhibitions:
2024 "Секретик" 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 “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
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 Mandorla Studio, Poznan, Poland
2020 "Be a lady", Month of photography in Minsk, Conserva, Brest, Belarus
2019 "100 Flag", Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, Poland
2018 "Traditional values", Gallery Y, Minsk, Belarus
2017 "#opentolive" Cult. Center Courpus, Minsk, Belarus
2017 "Art of Female Orgasm", Toronto-Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine
Festivals & Fairs:
2024 BAAM#8, Berlin Germany
2023 BAAM#6, Berlin Germany
2023 BAAM#5, Berlin, Germany
2017 "Board of Honor", Vulica Brazil Fest, Minsk, Belarus
Residences:
2023 VANHA PAUKKU Artist Residency in Lapua, Finland
2023 Culterim Gallery Residency in Biesenthal, Germany
Grants:
2023 Mobility Grant by Danish Cultural Institute, European Commission
Works are in public collections in Finland and Poland as well in private collections in Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, USA, Japan, Russia, Georgia, UK, Malta, Spain, India
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 and India.
She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education:
Academy of Photography, Warsaw, Poland
Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
Personal exhibitions:
2024 "Секретик" 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 “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, Germany2023 "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 Mandorla Studio, Poznan, Poland
2020 "Be a lady", Month of photography in Minsk, Conserva, Brest, Belarus
2019 "100 Flag", Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, Poland
2018 "Traditional values", Gallery Y, Minsk, Belarus
2017 "#opentolive" Cult. Center Courpus, Minsk, Belarus
2017 "Art of Female Orgasm", Toronto-Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine
Festivals & Fairs:
2024 BAAM#8, Berlin Germany
2023 BAAM#6, Berlin Germany
2023 BAAM#5, Berlin, Germany
2017 "Board of Honor", Vulica Brazil Fest, Minsk, Belarus
Residences:
2023 VANHA PAUKKU Artist Residency in Lapua, Finland
2023 Culterim Gallery Residency in Biesenthal, Germany
Grants:
2023 Mobility Grant by Danish Cultural Institute, European Commission
Works are in public collections in Finland and Poland as well in private collections in Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, USA, Japan, Russia, Georgia, UK, Malta, Spain, India
Artist Statement
My current work explores the emotional landscape of memory, nostalgia, and the search for identity in the context of displacement. Unable to return to my home country due to political circumstances, I engage with the feeling of lost belonging—a feeling that subtly permeates my practice and draws me toward the terrain of my inner child.
Color is the foundation of my work—a way to access, translate, and hold memory. My visual language resists sharp borders, favoring fluid, abstract forms that echo the ambiguity and complexity of emotional experience.
Informed by psychological and neuroscientific research, my work seeks to make visible the invisible architectures of feeling—how memory lives in the body, how home is internalized, and how identity forms in the spaces between what is remembered and what is lost.
Color is the foundation of my work—a way to access, translate, and hold memory. My visual language resists sharp borders, favoring fluid, abstract forms that echo the ambiguity and complexity of emotional experience.
Informed by psychological and neuroscientific research, my work seeks to make visible the invisible architectures of feeling—how memory lives in the body, how home is internalized, and how identity forms in the spaces between what is remembered and what is lost.
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Contacts
+48 881 276 621
dashabubenart@gmail.com
dashabubenart@gmail.com