Artists

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Zula Rabikowska

Polish visual artist and founder of Rethinking Eastern Europe, focusing on themes of migration, Eastern Europe, and the LGBTQI+ communities, drawing inspiration from her Polish heritage and upbringing. Through her photography, Zula aims to amplify voices often overlooked, using an intentional approach to explore the complexity of identity and the power of human connection.

Paulina Korobkiewicz

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Zsuzsanna Ida Papp

Hungarian visual artist based in Bratislava. Her creative approach is characterized by artistic research, combining community and independent art projects, blurring the boundaries between genres and mediums. She explores Eastern-European and female identity, visual and spiritual heritage, peasant culture and folklore, visual storytelling.

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Vera Hadzhiyska

Bulgarian multi-disciplinary artist, curator and photography lecturer based in Portsmouth. Her practice explores themes of migration, cultural and national identity, history, and collective memory. Vera's work traces family narratives and shared traumas. Through the use of photography, archival documents, audio and video installations she examines historical and political events and their impact on people’s lives and identity.

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Magda Kuca

Polish visual artist and photographer based in London. She explores the cyclical nature of rituals and traditions through portraiture and visual storytelling. Specialising in historical photographic techniques, such as wet collodion, her work reflects the link between folklore, individual memory and shared ancestry. Her projects draw on personal experience, pagan traditions and Slavic culture.

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Marcelina Amelia

Polish multidisciplinary artist based in Brighton, UK. Her practice spans painting, print, textile, photography, installation, video, and performance. Drawing from her Polish heritage, she explores migration, motherhood, mental health, feminism, spirituality, personal rituals, and dreams. Founder of the feminist art incubator Grupa Łono, her work engages personal and collective memory through storytelling and has been exhibited in commercial and institutional contexts internationally.

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Ksenia Kazintseva

Multidisciplinary artist and producer working across painting, text, and participatory formats to explore memory, migration, and the emotional archives of Central and Eastern European experience. Rooted in her background between cultures, her practice blends personal narrative, research, and community engagement into immersive installations and experiences.

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Michaela Nagyidaiová

Slovak visual artist living and working between Vienna and Bratislava. Her practice explores the intersections of memory, migration, and landscape, tracing the social and environmental transformations of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Grounded in lived experience and her regional background, she examines how ideology and politics permeate everyday life - shaping communities, and family histories.

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Laura Bivolaru

An early-career Romanian cultural practitioner in the field of photography, activating between artistic research, writing, curating, and education. She works with photographs, text and moving image to explore the tension between nation and individual, and to reveal the impact of time, collective narratives and history on lived experience.

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Maria Gvardeitseva

Belarus-born, Riga-based multidisciplinary visual artist working across performance, installation, sculpture, photography, and video. She has presented multiple museum exhibitions, including solo shows at the Mark Rothko Art Centre (Latvia), the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (Lithuania), and the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum (Latvia), and is the author of the artist book Five Minutes Bedtime Stories (Skira, 2025).

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Alexandra Baker

Polish-English multidisciplinary artist based in London. She works across painting, photography, collage, and other mediums, exploring themes of home, memory, belonging, and womanhood. Drawing on Eastern European heritage and personal histories, her practice reinterprets folk motifs and cultural symbols through a contemporary lens, often centring women as carriers of memory, identity, and cultural continuity.

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Diana Serban

Romanian visual artist based in London, working primarily with photography and installation. Her practice explores memory, identity, and constructed realities, investigating the quiet politics of domestic and public space, particularly in pre and post-communist Romania, where objects and material environments become containers of belonging, transformation, and emotional legacy.

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Diana Takacsova

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer working between Brussels and Bratislava. Her practice explores identity and the physical and emotional ties between people, place, and environment, particularly examining their intersection with power structures. Diana’s work draws on interdisciplinary perspectives and lived experience to create layered projects often set in perceived - or constructed - peripheries.

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Ella Natalia Hopkins

Polish Filmmaker and Podcaster based in London. She began her career working on documentary and commercials projects. Since moving to London in 2013, she's been exploring her identity as an Eastern European migrant. She created a podcast From The Bloc and directed short documentaries spotlighting UK-based Eastern European artists, promoting representation and supporting creative talent.

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GRUPA ŁONO

Feminist art incubator founded by Marcelina Amelia and Marta Borkowska, united by a shared dream. It was created as a response to a reality in which women must fight daily for bodily autonomy, offering a space for free expression, empathy, and community. Working across visual arts and community practice, the group explores themes of the body, emotions, relationships, and connection to nature.

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Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz

British photographer of Polish extraction. Her work is focused on connections between history, the environment, post-conflict landscapes, and people. Her major commissions and projects include landscape works from across the European continent, portraits of cultural and political figures, and collaborations with artists in the fields of theatre, film and music.

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Ioana Marinca

Born in a small town in Transilvania (Romania), Ioana completed her education in Ireland and now lives in London. Temporarily distracted away from photography by a career in technology, her work focuses on documentary and portraiture, giving particular attention to the quieter voices that hold powerful stories. Ioana's work has appeared in the British Journal of Photography, BBC, Guardian, Esquire China, amongst others.

Katalin Halász, PhD

Hungarian artist-researcher and body scholar based at Brunel University of London. Her work explores the affective dimensions of power in relation to bodies, race/whiteness, gender, and nationalism/authoritarianism. She works across filmmaking, video art, installation, performance, cross-dressing, and curation to investigate diverse forms of embodiment and belonging.

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Katerina Kouzmitcheva

Polish photographer of Belarusian origin based in Wrocław. Working between documentary and art photography, she explores invisible boundaries shaping societies, identities, and collective memory. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, and her work has been exhibited internationally and published in various photography magazines.

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Katie McCraw

Scottish visual artist and curator who lived in Bosnia & Herzegovina for 11 years. Heavily influenced by Balkan culture, her work questions notions of memory, heritage and nostalgia. She now runs a multi-purpose arts venue in the Scottish Borders.

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Konrad Koźmiński

Polish photographer, self-publisher, social activist. Documenting pheripheral areas and living folklore; particularly inspired by the Balkans. Student of the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. Has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Author of the 'Autumn Sense'. For many years co-organiser of the 'Photographic Circle' in a small district town.

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Lăcră Grozăvescu

Romanian visual artist based in Bucharest. Her practice spans photography, embroidery, video, and installation, exploring inherited silence, family trauma, and the fragmentary nature of memory. Drawing from her family archive, she constructs intimate narratives that merge documentary and conceptual approaches, often intervening in photographs through thread as a gesture of repair and remembrance.

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Lizaveta Khikhlushka

Belarusian visual artist based in London. Her practice explores how a city becomes personal. She focuses on the emotional and cultural aspects of nostalgia, memory, and urban life. Through drawing cityscapes, she transforms architecture and everyday details into intimate landscapes.

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Maria Quigley

Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Maria moved to London in 2000. She holds an MA with Distinction in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales. Through photography, reenactment, and unconventional cameraless darkroom techniques, her practice focuses on Russian narratives, particularly in relation to media, managed nostalgia, and prosthetic memory.

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Maryna Sulym

Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, Maryna moved to London when the war began in Eastern Ukraine, where she was born. Her work focuses on migrants’ identity, and how it develops and transforms. Combining portraits with interviews, Maryna works to create a fair portrayal of immigration in public media.

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Nastassja Nefjodov

German-Russian multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Her work explores the emotional aftermath of war, loss, and displacement, and how these experiences continue to shape families and intimate relationships across generations. Drawing on her own family history, she moves between photography, video, text, and sound, creating installations that offer intimate spaces for reflection.

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Patricia Petersen

Danish-Polish multidisciplinary artist. Inspired by experimental ethnography, she reframes historical and political narratives, exploring themes of (post)memory, rituals, ecologies, and body through a lens of poetic absurdity. Petersen has exhibited internationally and holds an MA from the Royal College of Art.

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Roxana Savin

Award-winning photobook author and artist from Romania. Her diverse body of work is informed by her cultural heritage and personal experiences, with a focus on the role of women in contemporary society from theological and socio-political perspective. Savin's works have been widely exhibited in Europe and published by Financial Times Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Der Grief, Royal Photographic Society Magazine, among others.

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Polish London-based photographer and visual artist exploring cultural identity, memory, and the transformation of social spaces. Her projects focus on the visual and cultural landscape of her hometown as well as UK, documenting everyday environments with a sense of nostalgia and socio-political commentary, drawing from her own experience of migration.

Andro Manzoni

Multimedia artist specialised in sound. He works with new technologies in contemporary theatre, researching musical expression through contemporary compositions that incorporate sensor-based programming and interactive performance. As an artistic director of multimedia art company Folding House Productions, works with mediums such as site-specific and immersive theatre productions, 360º video installation and interactive installations.