Anna Martynenko

Photographer

Anna Martynenko (b. 1994, Ukraine) is an artist and photographer based in Berlin, Germany. She graduated with an MA in Photography from the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, in 2019, and also studied Audiovisual Techniques at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland in 2015. Recent selected exhibitions include Men, Spoiler Galerie, Berlin; Mirrors and Reflections, Millepiani Gallery, Rome; Fashion and Fibre Art, CICA Museum, South Korea, all 2020; Between Us, Neukölln, Berlin, 2019; Flurgold, Kunststriftung Sachsen- Anhalt, Halle, 2018; Pitch In!, Public Space One Gallery, Iowa City; Ustructure, Gjilan, Kosovo, both 2017. She has also been included in group shows presented during international photography festivals and co-curated an exhibition entitled Flashback Displacements at Voodoo55, Berlin, 2018. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the SpaceNet Award and she won the Fellowship with Peace Revolution Artist Retreat in 2016, among other competition commendations. She attended the Re: Main German- Ukrainian residency sponsored by Stiftung EVZ in 2019 and has been the recipient of travel grants in 2019 and 2018 from Schwarzkopf Stiftung; and from the European Cultural Foundation in 2016.