Biography

Yana Kaziulia is a Belarusian art photographer based in Berlin.

Born in Minsk in 1990, she grew up surrounded by photography. Her grandfather, Yauhen Kaziulia, was a photographer and chairman of the Minsk Photo Club - the oldest photographic collective in Belarus. His work and involvement in the photographic community shaped her early sense of aesthetics.

Yana Kaziulia began her independent practice after relocating to Germany in 2015. Between 2018 and 2024, she pursued training in artistic and analog photography in Berlin and Riga. She studied at the School of Creative Art Photography, founded by Latvian fine art photographer Dmitri Bulkin (2018 - 2019), and later completed an extended program of thematic courses at Ankagrafia Photography School (2020 - 2023), led and supervised by fine art photographer Anka Zhuravleva. In 2024, she completed a course in analog black-and-white photography with darkroom practice at LichtMal – Center for Black-and-White Photography in Berlin. She now works across both analog and digital formats.

Her practice centers on long-term projects exploring memory, identity, the emotional presence of place, and personal perception.

Yana Kaziulia has participated in several group exhibitions in Germany and presented her first solo exhibition, ORIGINS, in Berlin in 2025. In 2026, she was selected for publication in a special edition of the independent photography magazine DOCU, and her project FLOW was selected for the art festival 48 Stunden Neukölln in Berlin. Alongside her artistic work, she has contributed photography to the print magazine Exberliner and various Belarusian online publications.

She also works as a cultural guide in Berlin and brings experience in storytelling, exhibition production, and curatorial projects - an interdisciplinary background that shapes her visual approach and research-driven practice.