Photography Workshops with Mariia Kulchytska

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT I and II

August and December 2023

As part of the extra funding for artists from Ukraine, 2 workshops were held by the photographer Mariia Kulchytska. Mariia offered participants theoretical modules on the history and examples of photography, as well as practical exercises with ballet dancers and models, professional lighting, and photographic experiments with a wide range of different techniques.
Participants explored working with different textures and learned techniques for long exposures and a variety of color schemes. Another focus of the workshops was on conceptualizing projects and putting them into words.

ABOUT MARIIA KULCHYTSKA
Mariia is a certified photographer with an art education, specializing in Ballet Photography. She was born in Ukraine and now she’s been living in Berlin for one year. For over 10 years now, she has worked with renowned Dance Companies and Artists around the world, Mariia’s work has been featured on posters for Dance Companies and covers of Magazines. She also filmed an advertising campaign for Nike and works with Dance Masterclasses production. ADOX.  
Now she is member of  LOT1 (Berlin) and HUJ:C (Berlin)
“In my creative work, I have defined four main components: the body, the soul (emotions), classical forms, and images. No matter how much I delve into contemporary forms, social issues, or search for my own underground, I always come back to questions that concern me, questions that have existed throughout all times and will continue to do so.
What is our body?
To what extent does it belong to us?
Does the body control emotions, or do emotions control the body?
How well do we know ourselves?
What do we associate ourselves with?”

Education: 
2020-2020 “Seeing Through Photographs” New York
2019-2019 Analog Photography Florence
2015-2016 Contemporary art education at MOMA (Moscow)
2009-2010 ‘Photographer and photojournalist “in the First National School of Television (Moscow) 
Group Exhibitions 
2023 “Dostoevsky. The evil of living” BURANELLO LIBRARY GALLINO MUNICIPALITY II CENTRE WEST (GENOA)
2022 “Lange Nacht der Bilder Lichtenberg” Berlin, Германия 
2021 Art Marbella Marbella, Испания
2018 “Needlework” / parallel program of the Moscow Photobiennale