Lana Yanovska is a Ukrainian fine arts photographer, a video artist, and a printmaker based in Austria. She studied Art Education (painting and photography) in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Through photography and moving film, Yanovska explores the perception of gender and sexuality, and challenges the viewer to look more closely at themselves through her work.
Having taken up linocut and printmaking in the time of pandemic, she has started the journey into the play between light and shadow using minimalist approach in her work. Each print is a challenge of leaving behind just enough to tell a story and going deep enough to see a reflection of oneself in it.
Lana Yanovska is open for collaborations and commissions.
education
2016 Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Magistra Artium in Art education and Romance philology // Germany
2003 Mykolaiv State Humanitarian University of Petro Mohyla (of complex of Kyiv Mohyla’s University), Bachelor of Arts in Ecology // Ukraine
awards, festivals
2020 Pride Photo Award (special mention) // Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 DongGang International Photo Festival (laureate) // Yeongwol, Republic of Korea
2018 Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards (finalist) // London, United Kindom
2017 Festival ManifestO (laureate) // Toulouse, France
2017 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards (finalist, open category) // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017 Hellerau Photography Award (finalist) // Dresden, Germany
2016 "Out Frames", Gender Bender Festival // Bologna, Italy
2016 Pride Photo Award: Audience Award // Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Pride Photo Award: 1st 'Insiders / Outsiders'; Friends Award // Amsterdam, Netherlands
selected personal exhibitions
2023 Open Closeness (video) // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022 Open Closeness (photography) // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022 Open Closeness (photography, video) // Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 Polarity, Selective Perseption (photography), Adyen Pride Week 2021 // Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo (and other locations)
2019 Polarity, Selective Perseption and Open Closeness (photography, video), Equality and Pride Days, LIGA // Mykolaiv, Ukraine
2015 Polarity (photography, video), Master exhibition, Goethe Universität Frankfurt // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2015 Selective Perception (photography), sankt peter Café // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013 About Birds (photography), Galerie Mountee // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013 About India (photography), Verhaltenstherapeutische Ambulanz der Goethe Universität Frankfurt // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010 Momente (photography), LesBiSchwules Jugendzentrum KUSS 41 // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
selected group exhibitions
2021 Pride Photo Award Exhibition (photography) // Amsterdam, Gröningen, Maastricht, Assen, Den Haag, Weert, Zwolle, Netherlands
2018 Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards at Isle of Wight Pride (photography) // Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
2018 DongGang International Photo Festival (photography) // Yeongwol, Republic of Korea
2018 Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards 2018 (photography) // London, United Kingdom
2017 Pride Photo Award Exhibition (photography) // Skopje, Macedonia
2017 Pride Photo Award Exhibition (photography) // Pristina, Kosovo
2017 LGBTI Pride Photo Exhibition (photography) // Tirana, Albania
2017 Festival ManifestO (photography) // Toulouse, France
2017 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards Exhibition (photography) // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017 Pride Photo Award Exhibition, SF LGBT Center (photography) // San Francisco, USA
2017 "In/Out", iSee, Nhà Sàn Collective (photography) // Hanoi, Vietnam
2017 "Photography for Tolerance and Diversity" (photography), Erasmus Huis // Jakarta, Indonesia
2017 Portraits - Hellerau Potography Award 2017 (photography) // Dresden, Germany
2016 "Out Frames" (photography), Gender Bender Festival 2016 // Bologna, Italy
2016 Pride Photo Award 2016 Exhibition (photography) // Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Jugendkulturtage Bad Nauheim 2016 (photography, video) // Bad Nauheim, Germany
2015 "Where is your home? - Nowhere and everywhere" (photography, video), PENG // Mainz, Germany
2014 "Exkursionenausstellung St. Jean de Fos-Kleinwalsertal" (painting), Institute for Art Education // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013 Kolmkola Festival (photography) // Païdé, Estland
2013 "Rockmarket stellt aus" (photography), Rockmarket // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012 "Fremd" (photography), Galerie Lorsbach Junge Kunst // Frankfurt am Main, Germany
selected publications
2022 Sofia Pride Arts: Exhibition ‘Open Closeness’ // forbidden colours // Bruxelles, Belgium
2022 Лана Яновска и отворената близост // https://atrakcia.bg // Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 “Отворена близост – Животът на ЛГБТК+ общността в Украйна (2017-)“ от Лана Яновска // Single Step // Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Украинска фотографка с ЛГБТИ+ изложба в София // Actualno.com // Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Украинска фотографка гостува в София с изложба за ЛГБТИ хора в Украйна // Украински Вести // Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 “Ostukraine: „Wir können nicht jeden Tag Angst haben“ // Die Furche. Vienna, Austria. https://www.furche.at/, March 2021
2021 “Eine neue Normalität“ // ff Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin. Bozen, Südtirol, Italy. https://www.ff-bz.com/, January 2021
2020 “Die ukrainische Kleinstadt Awdijiwka: Rückkehr an die Front“ // taz. Berlin, Germany. https://taz.de/ , December 2020
2020 Chaeg Special #1: "Gender" // Magazine Chaeg. Seoul, Korea. https://www.chaegshop.com, February 2020, p. 32
2019 Portraiture as an Expression of Cultural Identity. Emily Rose Larsen // Foto Femme United. Paris, France. www.fotofemmeunited.com
2018 DongGang International Photo Festival 2018 // DIPF 2018 Cataloque
2018 Interview for Winter Pride Art Awards: Kezia Davies talks to Art Awards Finalist Lana Yanovska // Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards 2018 Blog
2018 Beyond The Binaries: Winter Pride Art Awards Announce Finalists // www.artlyst.com
2017 European Photography 101: "FemGaze: Women on Women" // European Photography 101, September 2017, p. 73
2017 Ukraine's LGBTQ soldiers hope their service will change hearts and minds // NBC News
2017 La Depeche: Expos – Photographie. Quand Dupuy s'échappe de la réalité // La Depeche, www.ladepeche.fr
2017 Magazine Mowwgli: La 15ème édition du festival Manifesto à Toulouse // Magazine Mowwgli, www.mowwgli.com
2017 ManifestO 2017 XV edition // Festival ManifestO Catalogue 2017
2017 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards. KLPA 2017: Defining Family // KLPA Catalogue 2017, p. 51
2017 Ukrainian LGBTQ Shelter a Home for 'People Who Have Lost Everything' // NBC News
2017 Portraits: Hellerau Photography Award // Katalog 2017
2016 Oekraïense fotograaf wint publieksprijs Pride Photo Award // www.fotoexpositie.nl
2016 Oekraïense fotograaf wint publieksprijs succesvolle editie Pride Photo Award // IHLIA LGBT Heritage, www.ihlia.nl
2016 Winnaar publieksprijs Pride Photo Award // www.GaySite.nl
2016 Die Inszenierung von Geschlechterrollen // www.Queer.de
2016 In beeld: Lana Yanovska // Out TV Netherlands
2016 International Photo Contest Highlights LGBTQ Diversity // NBC News
2016 It's all about freedom: Pride Photo Award and exhibition // www.gupmagazine.com
2016 Lust, verdriet en angst: zo leven homo’s en transgenders wereldwijd // www.rtlnieuws.nl
2016 Photo Special: To the world of diverse and free LGBT // www.news.livedoor.com
2016 Newsweek Japan: "Picture Power: Sexual and gender diversity" // Newsweek Japan, August 30, 2016, p. 56-59
2016 Picture Power, Sexual and gender diversity // Newsweek Japan, www.newsweekjapan.jp
2016 Er is zoveel meer dan man en vrouw, erken dat in de wet // NRC, nrc.nl
2016 NRC Next: "Er is zoveel meer dan man en vrouw, erken dat in de wet" // NRC Next, August 08, 2016, p. 26
2016 Man of vrouw? // www.nrc.nl
2010 100 Women We Love Class of 2010 // GoMag. www.gomag.com