Dasha Buben

Dasha Buben (1982) was born in Gomel, Belarus. In 2010, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. She worked as a photographer and art director for several independent magazines, focusing on social problems, feminism, and LGBTQ rights. During this time, she created personal art projects using photography as the main medium.

Due to her activism and work in independent media, she had to leave Belarus, as she never felt safe under the current Belarusian regime.

In 2016, she graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Photography. From 2016 to 2020, she worked on topics such as domestic abuse, feminism, body positivity, and women's health. In 2020, after the dramatic protests in Belarus, abstraction became the main form of her artistic expression. She began using painting and drawing as the main media of her work. The focus of her artistic research shifted to emotions, physiological states, overcoming trauma, and mental health.

Since 2022, she has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. During her Berlin period, she has continued to focus on mental health, neurodivergency, and healing, as well as the topic of immigration. Her past activism, art, and volunteer work, particularly aiding victims of police brutality during the Belarusian revolution, have placed her in jeopardy, carrying a potential prison sentence of up to seven years in Belarus.

She has had solo exhibitions in Vienna and Warsaw and has participated in group exhibitions in Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and other countries.