LESIA PCHOLKA


Lesia Pcholka is a visual artist born in Belarus, currently lives and works in Berlin/DE and Bielsk Podlaski/PL

Curator of the VEHA archive platform, which is dedicated to researching and preserving vernacular Belarusian archival photography.

Pcholka’s practice brings together archival methods, collective memoriesy, and historical continuities to show explore how the past shapes contemporary life in Belarus and beyond. Through photography, video, and installation, she explores the tension between official narratives and undocumented histories, focusing on voices often silenced. Her work situates Belarus within a broader comparative frame, tracing parallels with other authoritarian contexts while also probing spaces of resistance. Exile sharpens her attention to displacement, belonging, and fragile memory, while gender perspectives inform her sensitivity to embodied experience and power. By mobilizing community archives and approaches in experimental storytelling, Pcholka creates layered narratives that move between personal and political, private and collective — reimagining how histories can be remembered and resisted.


PČOŁKA / PCHOLKA / PCZOŁKA


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HEIMAT 

Video, 4:45
 

 
We exist amid war and violence, where human currents become the background of the news. Memory turns into an unstable construction, governed by regimes and politics. This video is like a living monument to refugees bodies resembling both monuments and flags, frozen in motion. Monuments to the present, to which no future is given 


music Olga Anna Markowska






Headlong. The beaver tumbled down the slope.
Arsenal Gallery / 2025. Bialystok, PL