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Artist biography and selected exhibitions

Maryna Brodovska

Visual Artist and Filmmaker

Maryna Brodovska is a Ukrainian visual artist and filmmaker born in Mykolaiv and based in Kyiv. Working across photography, digital collage, text, and documentary film, her practice examines memory, displacement, and the long-term consequences of war on both personal and collective identities.

Her projects often emerge from autobiographical experiences, unfolding into broader reflections on instability, belonging, and the construction of reality in times of crisis. Combining documentary and conceptual approaches, she creates layered visual narratives that move between intimate storytelling and political contexts.

The artist has published 2 photobooks. The photo book “My dear Vira” self-published in 2020 was shortlisted in Aperture Photobook Awards, Kassel Dummy Awards and IPA. Maryna's photographic projects are featured in the publications of “Bird in Flight Magazine”, “Camera Austria”, "Photo Evidence", "Untitled", "5,6" and many others.

Brodovska has taken part in Ukrainian and international exhibitions since 2008, her works are in public and private collections. She is a Ukrainian Professional Photographers Association member and a tutor at a MYPH School.

Selected exhibitions

2024 – «Circulations: Focus Ukraine» Reseau LUX, FR
2024 – «100 Woman» Ins Blaue Gallery, GER
2024 – «Your loss» Her Clique Gallery, PT
2024 – «Circulations - hors de murs» Pont Saint-Ange, FR
2024 – «Echo dieser Tage», Stuttgarter Stadtgarten, GER
2024 – «Circulations festival», CENTQUATRE-PARIS, FR
2024 – «Subconscious», Porokhova Vezha Lviv, UA
2023 – «Visual history of Mykolaiv», ArtPier, Mykolaiv, UA
2023 – «Mimesis», Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2023 – «Greifbar», Galerie Moderne Saarbrücken, Germany
2023 – «Art a powerful tool», Maryna Brodovska & Oleg Chernykh, Irok Gallery, NL
2023 – «War diary» Castello di san Michele Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
2023 – «Whispers and shouts - voices of Ukrainian woman photographers», Fotodok, NL
2023 – «Freedom redefined» Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022 – «Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today», SUMA, USA
2022 – «Ukraine, I miss you. The magnificent 12», Rheged, Cumbria, UK
2022 – «You can call it love», Photolux Festival, Lucca, Italy
2022 – «In the name of freedom», UWPO, CHAUSSE 36, Berlin, Germany
2022 – «Collages», Kreis Galerie Nürnberg, Germany
2020 – Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation Finalists Photobook Exhibition, Delpire&Co, Paris
2018 – Solo Exhibition «Context», Izone, Kyiv
2018 – «Synoptic» Akt, Kyiv
2017 – «Fetish X0» Akt, Kyiv
2016 – «Territory/Space», Odessa/Batumi Photo Days
2015 – «Ukraine. Art», Institute of Contemporary Arts
2015 – «Simulation», Gogol Fest, Kyiv
2010 – «Confidence» ( II place in the photographic contest ) Kyiv
2008 – «Journey through the body», «Ra - Photo» Gallery, Kyiv

Filmography

2026 — The Illusion of a Quiet Night — documentary, 70 min. Ukraine — commissioned by Suspilne
Author

2026 (in development) — My Dear Vira — documentary, 82 min. France / Sweden / Ukraine
Co-director

2023 — Tiny Summer Trilogy — short film, 8 min
Ukraine / Georgia
Co-director

2023 — The Land of Aliens — short film, 18 min
Ukraine
Author, Screenwriter

Residences & Portfolio Reviews

2024 - Gothenburg Film Festival Residency, Sweden

2024 - Magic Carpets Residency, Tbilisi, Ge

2024 - Artist Talk, MYPH art

2023 - ISSP residency, Riga, Latvia

2023 - PlatForm, Fotomuseum Winterthur portfolio review

2022 - Rikstolvan residency, Sweden