Belarus 2020. Dictator Lukashenko and the pro-Russian regime silence mass protests through extreme violence and human rights violations. In Lukashenko's Belarus, there is no place for all that constitutes Belarusian culture. What happens when your identity is erased? What happens when you are considered a terrorist in your own country. What happens when you are never allowed home again? Cultural identity and art, connected by traditional slavic embroidery characterize my work and maintain Belarusian culture through the modern day.
Жыве Беларусь !
KATHARINA BÜTTGEN
work and live in Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibitions
Soloshows
03/2025: „Calling for spring“, The Factory, Berlin (DE)
08/2024: „Mama, they say I‘m a terrorist, Haus der Statistik, Berlin (DE)
Groupshows
04/2025: There is no river without sources, PAKD Gallery, Berlin (DE)
03/2025: „It‘s important to leave“, Kunstverein „Zehnthaus“, Jockgrim (DE)
03/2025: „Von Belarus nach Deutschland, Kalinowskiraum, Karlsruhe (DE)
12/2024: Annual Exhibition (juried), Karlsruhe (DE)
09/2024: Flintenweiber Extended, Köln (DE)
06/2024: Regionale in Donaueschingen (DE)
06/2024: Duo-show „Wenn niemand hinsieht“, Karlsruhe(DE)
06/2024: Artexpo, Basel (CH)
04/2024: „Small works that travel a long distance“, Athen (GR)
12/2023: Gallery Künstlerbunker, Leverkusen (DE)
05/2023: Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (De)
12/2022: Gallery Künstlerbunker, Leverkusen (DE)
05/2022: Gallery Künstlerbunker, Leverkusen (DE)
Education
11/2024- 03/2025 Artist Resarch: Rethink belarusian Culture, Berlin
Platformization of Politics in Non- democracies:
Belarus in the 2020s in Comparative Perspective
Since 10/2022 Academy of fine arts, Karlsruhe Diploma fine arts,
painting and graphics
class of Prof. Franz Ackermann
10/2019- 03/2022 University of Cologne
Bachelor of Arts, Art and Philosophy
Scholarship
DAAD Scholarship for education abroad