ALENA KAKHANOVICH (1985)
Alena Kakhanovich is a visual artist and photographer born in Belarus. Currently, she lives in Warsaw. She works on long-term visual projects bordering on photography, psychology, and art. In her work, she deals with issues related to transformation in times of crisis. She focuses to show processes happening in the inner worlds of people. The photos she makes reflect the poetry of melancholy, its magnetism, and its beauty.
Alena is a member of the Belarusian Association of Photographers.
Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and international festivals, including the Helsinki Photo Festival in Finland, the Kolga Photo Award in Tbilisi (Georgia), Month of Photography in Krakow (Poland). Moreover, she has exhibited her photographs in important art spaces such as the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art (Japan), Caelum Gallery (USA), Center for Contemporary Art (Belarus), and several galleries in Europe such as Galerie Huit in Arles. Alena’s works are in the collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan.
AWARDS:
2020 - 3rd place & three Honorable Mentions - International Photography Awards Lucie Foundation 2020
2020 - Winner - LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards 2020
2020 - Honorable Mention - PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2020
2020 - In the shortlist - PHmuseum 2020 Mobile Photography Prize
2020 - Winner - OpenWalls Arles 2020 , British Journal of Photography & 1854 Media
2020 - Finalist - Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan
2019 - In the shortlist - “MESH” - Vancouver, Canada
2019 - Finalist - Millennium Images #FotoRoomOPEN, UK
2019 - Finalist - Kolga Photo Award 2019, Georgia
2019 - Finalist - Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan
2018 - Finalist - Critical Mass 2018, Photolucida - Portland, OR, USA
2018 - Finalist - Helsinki Photo Festival - Helsinki, Finland
2017 - In the summer shortlist - «Fotofilmic 2017» - Vancouver, Canada
2017 - In the longlist - «PRAFOTA» - Minsk, Belarus
2016 - In the summer shortlist - «Fotofilmic 2016» - Vancouver, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017 - «Granny’s House», curator - Pawel Bownic, creative space «Belarusian House» - Warsaw, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 - LENSCULTURE NEW YORK 2022, Caelum Gallery, USA
2020 - OpenWalls Arles, Galerie Huit Arles, France
2020 - Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan
2019 - URBAN Photo Awards 2019 - Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle, Cividale del Friuli, Italy
2019 - Kolga Photo Award 2019 - Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 - Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan
2018 - «From Helsinki With Love», curator - Rafael Rybczynski, Helsinki Photo Festival - Helsinki, Finland
2017 - group exhibition of the Academy of Photography within the Month of Photography - Krakow, Poland
2016 - Best Photography Academy Graduates, curator - Joanna Kinowska, «Gallery officyna art & design» - Warsaw, Poland
2016 - «Crisis? What crisis?», group exhibition of the Academy of Photography within the Month of Photography - Krakow, Poland
2015 - «Arteria», Center for Contemporary Art - Minsk, Belarus
PUBLICATIONS:
«LensCulture» magazine, 2021
«The Guardian» magazine, 2020
«Неизвестная галерея» («Unknown gallery»), 2020
«PHmuseum» magazine, 2019
«MAKEOUT» magazine, Minsk 2017
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (2018, 2019)