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Anastasiia Batishcheva is a visual artist currently based in Munich. Her academic background originates in classical painting education in Ukraine, which later expanded into lens-based practice during her studies in Germany. This shift enabled her to develop a critical distance to reflect on the ideological legacies of Eastern European cultural heritage, as well as the broader apparatus of image-production within global visual economies.

In her artistic practice, she investigates cultural policy and its monumental embodiments in architecture and fine arts. Drawing on archival materials, found footage, and her own artistic research, she examines how political narratives are constructed and sustained through visual culture, while simultaneously creating her own perspectives. Although photography often serves as the entry point to her research, it rarely functions as the final result. Anastasiia’s projects frequently evolve into digital montages, investigative research formats, and spatial installations.

Education

  • 2019 — 2026

    Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
  • 2024 — 2026

    Photography with Prof. Armin Linke and Lea Vajda (Meisterschülerin)
  • 2024

    Guest student, Emergent Digital Media with Prof. Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger
  • 2023

    Guest student, Sculpture with Prof. Olaf Nicolai and Julia Wittmann
  • 2023

    Guest student, Institute of Philosophy and Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, DE
  • 2017 — 2019

    Classical Painting, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, UA

Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2026

    (Upcoming) Expanded Horizons, House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, DE
    (Upcoming) The Sky was Green, Karl & Faber GmbH, Munich, DE (Solo)
    Debütantinnen, Neumeister, Munich, DE
    Klimax Klima, ICAT, Hamburg, DE
    Open Studios, PS61 Studios, Munich, DE
    Neutrinos & Dark Matter, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
    Perspectives, PLATFORM Munich, DE
    Folding Time, EAREAR Munich, DE
    Pickly Wiggly, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE
    Dreams of a Humankind, Graduation Show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE (Solo)
  • 2025

    ciao-ciao, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
    zu viele auftritte, die zu nichts führen, SORRY SQUARE, Sorry Press, Munich, DE (Duo)
    KARL & FABER Kunstpreis, KARL & FABER Art Auctions GmbH, Munich, DE
    Klimax Klima, Schloss Neuhardenberg, DE
    outer in inner out, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
    The Only Possible Story, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich, DE (Solo)
  • 2024

    Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
    Ditry Computer, Gramazio Kohler Research in ETH, Zurich, CH
    Aperto, Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
    Mit lebendigen Strukturen oder festen Elementen, Architektur Galerie Berlin, DE
    Grenzverschiebung, Kunstverein Ebersberg, DE
  • 2023

    Ї, Aspekte Galerie Munich, DE
    Autostrata, DOMIE (Poznań), Stroboskop (Warsaw), Galeria UL (Gdańsk), PL
    Bijenale mladih in Belgrad, CS
    where we relieve or hold, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
    Sehnsucht, Kunstareal, University of Television and Film Munich, DE
    what we dream of – what we pay for, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
    No One is an Island, as a member of Institution of Unstable Thoughts, HALLE 6, Munich, DE
    Camping Campus, Supergau in Salzburg, AT
  • 2022

    KARL & FABER Kunstpreis, KARL & FABER Art Auctions GmbH, Munich, DE
    Rumours of Capture, NEU Workshop, Munich, DE
    Days on Chairs, NODEPRESSIONROOM e.V., Munich, DE
    DRIFT – Sympoetic Worldings, Kaulbach Straße 1A, Munich, DE
  • 2021

    to be an angular something as a round nothing, Kaulbach Straße 1, Munich, DE
    Zwischen Gegenständlichkeit und Abstraktion, Kunstverein Soest, DE
    Pandemic Edition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
    Energie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Nutzen und Schäden, Akademie Galerie, Munich, DE
  • 2020

    This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, poster campaign in public space, Munich, DE

Awards, Grants, Other

  • 2026

    Expanded Horizons, House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the Körber Foundation, Hamburg (award)
    Finalist, Förderpreis für Fotografie der Landeshauptstadt München (award)
    PS61 Studio Grant, Munich
    DebütantInnen Award des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst (award)
    Finalist, PERSPECTIVES Award, Kunstclub13 e.V. in cooperation with PLATFORM, Munich (award)
  • 2026 — 2022

    Studienförderung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., Bonn
  • 2025

    German Research Foundation, Neutrinos & Dark Matter / Sonderforschungsbereich 1258
    KARL & FABER Award, Munich (award)
    BayHost Research Grant, Bavarian Academic Centre for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Regensburg
  • 2024

    AiR, XXVIII CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
    Project Grant, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste e.V., Munich
    Project Grant, BBK Bayern – Verbindungslinien, Munich
  • 2023

    AiR, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv
    AiR, Supergau, Salzburg
  • 2022

    Publication Grant, LfA Bayern, Munich
    Finalist, KARL & FABER Award, Munich (award)
  • 2020

    Jubiläumsstipendienstiftung, Munich