Elena Subach
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Elena Subach (b.1980, Vhervonohrad, Ukraine)Elena Subach is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Lviv. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring memory, space, religion, tradition, the construction of history, as well as the consequences of the Soviet colonial past. A significant theme in the artist’s work is the fragility of the world and its living beings. In her art, Subach often turns to liminal spaces as a visual metaphor for the inner state of a person experiencing change, loss, or a reinterpretation of experience.
Subach turned to photography in 2012. Between 2019 and 2022, she worked as a curator at the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery. She currently teaches art history and curatorial practice at the School of Visual Communications in Kyiv.
The artist has received several awards, including the Vogue Phuturespective (2025), New East Photo Prize from the Calvert Foundation (2016), and Future Talents (2019).
The photographs of Subach belong to important public collections including the Neues Museum, Nürnberg (Germany); the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) and the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography (Ukraine). They were exhibited in leading museums, including the Nordic House in Reykjavik (Iceland); Photo Élysée Museum of Photography in Lausanne, (Switzerland); Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute in Rome (Italy) and Kunstforum Wien (Austria), Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool (GB), Saatchi Gallery in London (GB), in Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (France).
The artist’s photographs have been recently featured by international press, such as The Art Newspaper (France), Harper’s Bazaar (Italy), MoMA Press (USA), The Guardian (UK), The British Journal of Photography (UK), Fisheye (France), Nouvel Obs (France), Weltkunst (Germany), Vogue (Ukraine, Poland).
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Elena Subach ( née en 1980 à Vhervonohrad, Ukraine )
Elena Subach vit et travaille à Lviv, Ukraine. Sa pratique artistique explore la mémoire, l’espace, la tradition et la construction de l’histoire. La fragilité de notre monde ainsi que celle des êtres vivants sont des thèmes majeurs de son travail. L’artiste se sert souvent de la représentation d’espaces liminaires dans son art, comme d’une métaphore visuelle de l’état intérieur d’une personne traversant un changement, une perte ou la réappropriation d’une expérience subie.
Subach s’est tournée vers la photographie en 2012. Entre 2019 et 2022, elle a travaillé comme commissaire à la Galerie nationale d’art Borys Voznytsky de Lviv. Elle enseigne actuellement l’histoire de l’art et la pratique curatoriale à la l’Ecole de la communication visuelle à Kyiv.
La photographe a été récompensée de plusieurs prix, dont le Vogue Phuturespective (2025), le New East Photo Prize de la Calvert Foundation (2016) ou le Future Talents (2019).
Les œuvres de Subach font partie d’importantes collections, notamment celles du Neues Museum de Nuremberg (Allemagne), du Victoria & Albert Museum (Royaume-Uni) et du Musée de l’École de photographie de Kharkiv (Ukraine). Elles ont été exposées au Nordic House à Reykjavik (Islande), au Musée de la photographie Photo Élysée à Lausanne (Suisse), à la Bibliotheca Hertziana - Institut Max Planck à Rome (Italie) au Kunstforum Wien (Autriche) et à Saatchi Gallery (UK), au Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (France).
Les photographies de l’artiste ont récemment fait l’objet de publications dans la presse internationale, notamment dans The Art Newspaper (France), Harper’s Bazaar (Italie), MoMA Press (USA), The Guardian (UK), The British Journal of Photography (UK), Fisheye (France), Nouvel Obs (France), Weltkunst (Allemagne) et Vogue (Pologne, Ukraine).
Collections (selection):
Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Victoria & Albert Musem, UK
Modern Religious Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
MOCA, Ukraine
Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine
Bibliography:
2025 Book “Paris Photo 2025”, inaugural publication, edited by Paris Photo and Spassky Fischer, Paris, France
Book "Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine: Reflections, Perspectives, Challenges", publishers: the University of Salford and 89books, multiple contributors
2022 Art Book "Hidden (Сховане)" by Besides Press, UK
Awards & Mentions (selection):
2025 Winner of Vogue FUTURESPECTIVE 2025
2022 "Ones to Watch" by The British Journal of Photography
2019 Participant of Futures Platform
Gaude Polonia scholarship by National Centre for Culture Poland
Shortlisted to Gomma Grant
Fotofestival Lodz Grand Prix finalist
2016 New East Photo Prize Bigmag Special Prize and grant winner
Personal exhibitions:
2025 New Borders of my Body, The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
We don’t want to see this anymore, in the frame of the opening of “Voyage en Ukraine”, Ukrainian season in France, by Ukrainian Institut and French Institut, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France
New Borders of my Body, Open Eye Gallery's Outside Walls, Liverpool, GB
Unbroken: Fragility, Body, Arthitecture, a panel discussion with a visual essay by Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov, as part of the GENS Public Programme in the frame of the 19th International Architectural Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venise, Italy
2023 Hidden, Palazzo Zuccari, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Rome, Italy
2022 Subach / Poliakov, Szara Gallery, in the framework of Друг друга / Druh Druha – Ukrainian Art in Galleries of Warsaw, Poland
2020 Posters on Walls of Hamburg, Galerie 21 im Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Heroic Trip, Szara Gallery, Katowice, Poland
City of Gardens, PIB gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Subach / Poliakov, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Taxidermia, with Periscope group, Lviv, Ukraine
2014 Retablos de Galicia, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions (selection):
2025 Paris Photo, main sector, Grand Palais, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery
Futurespective, by Vogue Ukraine & Photo Vogue, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Voices from Ukraine, Galeria Labirynt, with a support of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Lublin, Poland
2024 NichteLemberg, 91 Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Essential Goods, Kyiv’s Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine
Home Again, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Testimony. Boris Lurie & Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Generations of Resilience, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Home: Ukrainian Photography, Edinburgh Art Festival, Steel Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Home Beyond the Dawn, MUSA (Museum of the Arts), University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Contra Spem Spero. Storie dall’Ucraina, Museo Civico di Bari, Italy; Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo, Italy
2023 CROSS-ING WAY-S, Modern Religious Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
How Did I Get To The Bombshelter, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia; Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland; Ukraine House in Denmark, Copenhagen; Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centro (KKKC), Lithuania
Crossing Lines. Politics of Images, Foto Arsenal Wien, FOTO WIEN 2023, Austria
Our years, our words, our losses, our search, our us, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
How River Roars, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
Are you okay? Ти як?, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
Home, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK & Ukrainian.Photographies
The Art of Coping with War, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany
Ukraine. Work-in-Progress, KVOST, Berlin
Riga Photography Biennial "NEXT 2023!", Riga, Latvia
Kharkiv School of Photography — 50 Jahre künstlerische Fotografie aus der Ukraine, MAXI – Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany
2022–23 Tell Them About Battles, Meteors and Eggplant Caviar,, Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres de Bretagne, France; Simultania, Strasbourg, France; Claude Cahun Center, Nantes, France
2022 Незридані сльози [nezrydani slʹozy] UNGEBORENE TRÄNEN (Unborn Tears), Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany
We are no longer feel the Future, MUZA — Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
UKRAINE IMAGES OF WAR, Photo Elysee Museum of Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland
Death and the Maiden – Der Tod und das Mädchen, Kunstforum Wien, Austria
In Ukraine, Gallery at Dobbin Mews, New York, USA
Stand with Ukraine, Photaumnales Festival (#19 Cartographies), Palace Saint-Etienne, Beauvais, France (by Diaphane photographic centre)
The Cockerel with Black Wings: A Recovered Heirloom, viennacontemporary STATEMENT UKRAINE, Vienna, Austria
With Ukraine, Hinterconti Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Foreboding Landscape (Odessa Photo Days), La Chambre, Strasbourg, France; Palais de Tokyo (Parliament of Photography), Paris, France; Fotofestival Lodz, Poland
Unfolding Landscapes, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark; Art & History Museum, Brussels; KunstZeugHaus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
Slava Ukraini, Czwartek Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Secondary Archive, Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation
2021 Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Who is next to you? (Odesa Photo Days Festival, main exhibition), Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Ukraine
2020 Staged Realities, Outdoor Exhibition by OSTLOOK+EEP Berlin, part of POSTWEST \ guess where, Transcultural Festival, Volksbühne Berlin, Germany
2019 Woven Matter, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now, Ukrainian Institute at Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
Let’s Talk About Modernity, Fundacja Tadeusza Kantora, Jam Factory, Lviv, Ukraine
Ukrainian Cross-Section (Український Зріз), Triennale of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Inny, Obcy, Swoi, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Fotofestival Lodz, Poland
FotoArt Festival, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
II Biennale of Young Ukrainian Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
How to Deal with History, Ostlook Platform, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
2018 Somewhere now (Tam gdzie teraz), Galerię Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Circulations Festival, Paris, France
2017 Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists, Mysteskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Knowns–Unknowns. Lviv Photography after the year 2000, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok Interphoto Festival, Poland
Ostrale Biennale, Dresden, Germany
EASTStreet 4. Photo Festival, Lublin, Poland
2016 The Boutographies — Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, slideshow, Montpellier, France
Elementary Manipulation, Ukrainian Week in Gdansk, Poland
Galicia Cult: Western Ukrainian Art, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Odesa-Batumi Photodays Festival, Batumi, Georgia & Odesa, Ukraine
Group "Group", WBA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Strolls With Pleasure And Not Without Moral, Group "Group", Ya Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
Performative Curatorial Exhibition, Lars Willumeit & Der Greif Magazine, Krakow Photomonth Open Weekend, Poland
Saving the Bridge, Urban SOYC project, Henychesk, Ukraine
2015 Gogol Fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
Dnipro Alternative Art Guide (publication photography), SvitArt Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
Cell|One|Fication / Paul Celan Festival, Shteinbarg Gallery, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
EASTStreet 3. Photo Festival, open call finalists, Lublin, Poland
Stops (Subach, Cherneha, Poliakov), Chernihiv Municipal Museum, Chernihiv, Ukraine
2014 Terra-Futura Festival, Kherson, Ukraine
London Analog Festival, open call finalists, London, UK
She (Maria Voynova, Mariana Klochko, Marta Shwets, Taisiya Raynyk), Bastion Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Publications and Press (selection):
"Artist in focus: Elena Subach. Capturing Ukraine’s New Normal", Contemporary LYNX, online press, December 2025
"Motherhood by Elena Subach”, Vogue, Ukraine, November 2025
"Paris Photo" : 10 images frappantes de l'édition 2025", Nouvel Obs, France, 15 November 2025
“Paris Photo torna al Grand Palais”, Harper’s BAZAAR, Italy, Chiara Bardelli Nonino, 15 November 2025
"Notre sélection de galeries à voir à Paris Photo" The Art Newspaper, France, Zoe Isle de Beauchaine, November 2025
"Paris Photo 2025", Artpil, November 2025
"Against Image Fatigue: On Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine", e-flux, online publication, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, 31 October 2025
"Douleurs muettes. Elena Subach. Portfolio", Legende, France, summer 2025
"On Elena Subach", e-flux, Kateryna Iakovlenko, 18 July 2025
"Vogue Ukraine and PhotoVogue announce FUTURESPECTIVE 2025 Finalists”, Vogue, Ukraine, by PhotoVogue, April 2025
"Photos of Everyday Life During Wartime", MoMA Magazine, US, Kateryna Radchenko, 6 January 2025
"La force de résistance de la photographie ukrainienne dans une expo à Bruxelles", BeauxArts, Belgique, Charlotte Jean, 24 February 2024
"Resilience and bravery in Ukraine: PhotoBrussels festival 2024", The Guardian, UK, Fiona Shields, 30 January 2024
"PhotoBrussels : la capitale belge fait son festival", Fisheye, France, Eric Karsenty, 7 February, 2024
"In Ukraine a battle for the future", Blind Magazine, Iris Mandret, 9 February 2024
"La langue pour refuge", l’OBS, Luba Yakumtchuk, France, February 2024
"PhotoBrussels Festival : expressions en bataille", Milena Ill, Fisheye, 24 Janvier 2024
"En images - à Bruxelles, les photographes ukrainiens à l’honneur", Liberation, 20 Janvier 2024
"Créer en temps de guerre", Jean-Marc Bodson, Arts Libre (La Libre Belgique), Belgium, 31 January 2024
Gaze N4, LA REVUE DES REGARDS FÉMININS, France, June 2022
"Olena Subach", Secondary Archive, Kateryna Rusetska, 2022
"Hidden", Over, Katerina Radchenko, 10 November 2022
"The Information Front, #2. “Ukraine – The Path to Freedom", Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2022
"De verborgen schatten van Oekraïne", UNESCO, Lisanne Louise Bedaux, 13 December 2022
"The Angels of Lviv. Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction", The Atlantic, Linda Kinstler, October 2022
"Elena Subach compels us to imagine war beyond the frame", The British Journal of Photography, Liza Premyak, 4 July 2022
"Elena Subach", Burlington Contemporary, Sarah Bolwell, 10 June, 2022
"IM FADENKREUZ", Weltkunst, Germany, Simone Sondermann, 4 May, 2022
See Zeen, 2022
“ELENA SUBACH’S CHAIRS, AND THE ABSURDIST SYMPTOMS OF THE UKRAINIAN WAR”, Open Eye Gallery, The Double Negative and ArtReview, funded through Eurofestival, Matthew Lloyd, 2022
SZ Magazin, Germany, 2022
"Ukraińskie artystki w czasie wojny", Vogue Polska, MARCIN RÓŻYC, Poland, 2022
"Der Freitag", Der Freitag, Germany, 2022
‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show”, The Guardian , UK, 2022
FK Magazine, Latvia, 2022
Club Sandwich, France, 2021
"PHOTO JOURNAL MONDAY: ELENA SUBACH", Musée Magazine, June 2020
Paper Journal, Australia, 2020
"INTERVIEW WITH ELENA SUBACH AND VIACHESLAV POLIAKOV", GUP Magazine, Netherlands, 2019
"Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap", It’s Nice That, UK, 2019
"Олена Субач презентувала свої роботи на груповій виставці Woven Matters", Support Your Art, Ukraine, 2019
"Elena Subach's way of honouring her Ukrainian grandmother", C41, Italy, 2019
Knok Magazine, Japan, 2019
K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Greece, 2019
"City of Gardens" Exhibition by Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov”, EEP Berlin Magazine, Maya Hristova, Germany, 2019
"City of Gardens", Elena Subach & Viacheslav Poliakov", Photography in Berlin, 2019
"Kreuzberg goes east: EEP Berlin", Exberliner, Germany, June 2019
"Meteorite Berdychiv", Elena Subach, PH Museum, 2019
Ostlook, Germany, 2019
"Nonne ucraine", Ilpost, Italy, 2019
"City of Gardens", Lensculture, UK, 2018
The Village Ukraine, 2018
Der Greif, Germany, 2016–17
"New East Photo Prize. The Sacrifice by Elena Subach", Bird in Flight, Ukraine, 2016
Portfolio pdf
"Hidden" full series pdf
"Fragility" full series pdf
Elena Subach (b.1980, Vhervonohrad, Ukraine)Elena Subach is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Lviv. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring memory, space, religion, tradition, the construction of history, as well as the consequences of the Soviet colonial past. A significant theme in the artist’s work is the fragility of the world and its living beings. In her art, Subach often turns to liminal spaces as a visual metaphor for the inner state of a person experiencing change, loss, or a reinterpretation of experience.
Subach turned to photography in 2012. Between 2019 and 2022, she worked as a curator at the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery. She currently teaches art history and curatorial practice at the School of Visual Communications in Kyiv.
The artist has received several awards, including the Vogue Phuturespective (2025), New East Photo Prize from the Calvert Foundation (2016), and Future Talents (2019).
The photographs of Subach belong to important public collections including the Neues Museum, Nürnberg (Germany); the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) and the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography (Ukraine). They were exhibited in leading museums, including the Nordic House in Reykjavik (Iceland); Photo Élysée Museum of Photography in Lausanne, (Switzerland); Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute in Rome (Italy) and Kunstforum Wien (Austria), Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool (GB), Saatchi Gallery in London (GB), in Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (France).
The artist’s photographs have been recently featured by international press, such as The Art Newspaper (France), Harper’s Bazaar (Italy), MoMA Press (USA), The Guardian (UK), The British Journal of Photography (UK), Fisheye (France), Nouvel Obs (France), Weltkunst (Germany), Vogue (Ukraine, Poland).
FR
Elena Subach ( née en 1980 à Vhervonohrad, Ukraine )
Elena Subach vit et travaille à Lviv, Ukraine. Sa pratique artistique explore la mémoire, l’espace, la tradition et la construction de l’histoire. La fragilité de notre monde ainsi que celle des êtres vivants sont des thèmes majeurs de son travail. L’artiste se sert souvent de la représentation d’espaces liminaires dans son art, comme d’une métaphore visuelle de l’état intérieur d’une personne traversant un changement, une perte ou la réappropriation d’une expérience subie.
Subach s’est tournée vers la photographie en 2012. Entre 2019 et 2022, elle a travaillé comme commissaire à la Galerie nationale d’art Borys Voznytsky de Lviv. Elle enseigne actuellement l’histoire de l’art et la pratique curatoriale à la l’Ecole de la communication visuelle à Kyiv.
La photographe a été récompensée de plusieurs prix, dont le Vogue Phuturespective (2025), le New East Photo Prize de la Calvert Foundation (2016) ou le Future Talents (2019).
Les œuvres de Subach font partie d’importantes collections, notamment celles du Neues Museum de Nuremberg (Allemagne), du Victoria & Albert Museum (Royaume-Uni) et du Musée de l’École de photographie de Kharkiv (Ukraine). Elles ont été exposées au Nordic House à Reykjavik (Islande), au Musée de la photographie Photo Élysée à Lausanne (Suisse), à la Bibliotheca Hertziana - Institut Max Planck à Rome (Italie) au Kunstforum Wien (Autriche) et à Saatchi Gallery (UK), au Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (France).
Les photographies de l’artiste ont récemment fait l’objet de publications dans la presse internationale, notamment dans The Art Newspaper (France), Harper’s Bazaar (Italie), MoMA Press (USA), The Guardian (UK), The British Journal of Photography (UK), Fisheye (France), Nouvel Obs (France), Weltkunst (Allemagne) et Vogue (Pologne, Ukraine).
Collections (selection):
Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Victoria & Albert Musem, UK
Modern Religious Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
MOCA, Ukraine
Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine
Bibliography:
2025 Book “Paris Photo 2025”, inaugural publication, edited by Paris Photo and Spassky Fischer, Paris, France
Book "Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine: Reflections, Perspectives, Challenges", publishers: the University of Salford and 89books, multiple contributors
2022 Art Book "Hidden (Сховане)" by Besides Press, UK
Awards & Mentions (selection):
2025 Winner of Vogue FUTURESPECTIVE 2025
2022 "Ones to Watch" by The British Journal of Photography
2019 Participant of Futures Platform
Gaude Polonia scholarship by National Centre for Culture Poland
Shortlisted to Gomma Grant
Fotofestival Lodz Grand Prix finalist
2016 New East Photo Prize Bigmag Special Prize and grant winner
Personal exhibitions:
2025 New Borders of my Body, The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
We don’t want to see this anymore, in the frame of the opening of “Voyage en Ukraine”, Ukrainian season in France, by Ukrainian Institut and French Institut, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France
New Borders of my Body, Open Eye Gallery's Outside Walls, Liverpool, GB
Unbroken: Fragility, Body, Arthitecture, a panel discussion with a visual essay by Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov, as part of the GENS Public Programme in the frame of the 19th International Architectural Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venise, Italy
2023 Hidden, Palazzo Zuccari, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Rome, Italy
2022 Subach / Poliakov, Szara Gallery, in the framework of Друг друга / Druh Druha – Ukrainian Art in Galleries of Warsaw, Poland
2020 Posters on Walls of Hamburg, Galerie 21 im Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Heroic Trip, Szara Gallery, Katowice, Poland
City of Gardens, PIB gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Subach / Poliakov, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Taxidermia, with Periscope group, Lviv, Ukraine
2014 Retablos de Galicia, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions (selection):
2025 Paris Photo, main sector, Grand Palais, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery
Futurespective, by Vogue Ukraine & Photo Vogue, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Voices from Ukraine, Galeria Labirynt, with a support of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Lublin, Poland
2024 NichteLemberg, 91 Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Essential Goods, Kyiv’s Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine
Home Again, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Testimony. Boris Lurie & Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Generations of Resilience, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Home: Ukrainian Photography, Edinburgh Art Festival, Steel Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Home Beyond the Dawn, MUSA (Museum of the Arts), University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Contra Spem Spero. Storie dall’Ucraina, Museo Civico di Bari, Italy; Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo, Italy
2023 CROSS-ING WAY-S, Modern Religious Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
How Did I Get To The Bombshelter, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia; Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland; Ukraine House in Denmark, Copenhagen; Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centro (KKKC), Lithuania
Crossing Lines. Politics of Images, Foto Arsenal Wien, FOTO WIEN 2023, Austria
Our years, our words, our losses, our search, our us, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
How River Roars, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
Are you okay? Ти як?, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
Home, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK & Ukrainian.Photographies
The Art of Coping with War, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany
Ukraine. Work-in-Progress, KVOST, Berlin
Riga Photography Biennial "NEXT 2023!", Riga, Latvia
Kharkiv School of Photography — 50 Jahre künstlerische Fotografie aus der Ukraine, MAXI – Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany
2022–23 Tell Them About Battles, Meteors and Eggplant Caviar,, Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres de Bretagne, France; Simultania, Strasbourg, France; Claude Cahun Center, Nantes, France
2022 Незридані сльози [nezrydani slʹozy] UNGEBORENE TRÄNEN (Unborn Tears), Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany
We are no longer feel the Future, MUZA — Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
UKRAINE IMAGES OF WAR, Photo Elysee Museum of Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland
Death and the Maiden – Der Tod und das Mädchen, Kunstforum Wien, Austria
In Ukraine, Gallery at Dobbin Mews, New York, USA
Stand with Ukraine, Photaumnales Festival (#19 Cartographies), Palace Saint-Etienne, Beauvais, France (by Diaphane photographic centre)
The Cockerel with Black Wings: A Recovered Heirloom, viennacontemporary STATEMENT UKRAINE, Vienna, Austria
With Ukraine, Hinterconti Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Foreboding Landscape (Odessa Photo Days), La Chambre, Strasbourg, France; Palais de Tokyo (Parliament of Photography), Paris, France; Fotofestival Lodz, Poland
Unfolding Landscapes, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark; Art & History Museum, Brussels; KunstZeugHaus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
Slava Ukraini, Czwartek Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Secondary Archive, Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation
2021 Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Who is next to you? (Odesa Photo Days Festival, main exhibition), Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Ukraine
2020 Staged Realities, Outdoor Exhibition by OSTLOOK+EEP Berlin, part of POSTWEST \ guess where, Transcultural Festival, Volksbühne Berlin, Germany
2019 Woven Matter, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now, Ukrainian Institute at Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
Let’s Talk About Modernity, Fundacja Tadeusza Kantora, Jam Factory, Lviv, Ukraine
Ukrainian Cross-Section (Український Зріз), Triennale of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Inny, Obcy, Swoi, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Fotofestival Lodz, Poland
FotoArt Festival, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
II Biennale of Young Ukrainian Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
How to Deal with History, Ostlook Platform, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
2018 Somewhere now (Tam gdzie teraz), Galerię Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Circulations Festival, Paris, France
2017 Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists, Mysteskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Knowns–Unknowns. Lviv Photography after the year 2000, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok Interphoto Festival, Poland
Ostrale Biennale, Dresden, Germany
EASTStreet 4. Photo Festival, Lublin, Poland
2016 The Boutographies — Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, slideshow, Montpellier, France
Elementary Manipulation, Ukrainian Week in Gdansk, Poland
Galicia Cult: Western Ukrainian Art, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Odesa-Batumi Photodays Festival, Batumi, Georgia & Odesa, Ukraine
Group "Group", WBA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Strolls With Pleasure And Not Without Moral, Group "Group", Ya Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
Performative Curatorial Exhibition, Lars Willumeit & Der Greif Magazine, Krakow Photomonth Open Weekend, Poland
Saving the Bridge, Urban SOYC project, Henychesk, Ukraine
2015 Gogol Fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
Dnipro Alternative Art Guide (publication photography), SvitArt Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
Cell|One|Fication / Paul Celan Festival, Shteinbarg Gallery, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
EASTStreet 3. Photo Festival, open call finalists, Lublin, Poland
Stops (Subach, Cherneha, Poliakov), Chernihiv Municipal Museum, Chernihiv, Ukraine
2014 Terra-Futura Festival, Kherson, Ukraine
London Analog Festival, open call finalists, London, UK
She (Maria Voynova, Mariana Klochko, Marta Shwets, Taisiya Raynyk), Bastion Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Publications and Press (selection):
"Artist in focus: Elena Subach. Capturing Ukraine’s New Normal", Contemporary LYNX, online press, December 2025
"Motherhood by Elena Subach”, Vogue, Ukraine, November 2025
"Paris Photo" : 10 images frappantes de l'édition 2025", Nouvel Obs, France, 15 November 2025
“Paris Photo torna al Grand Palais”, Harper’s BAZAAR, Italy, Chiara Bardelli Nonino, 15 November 2025
"Notre sélection de galeries à voir à Paris Photo" The Art Newspaper, France, Zoe Isle de Beauchaine, November 2025
"Paris Photo 2025", Artpil, November 2025
"Against Image Fatigue: On Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine", e-flux, online publication, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, 31 October 2025
"Douleurs muettes. Elena Subach. Portfolio", Legende, France, summer 2025
"On Elena Subach", e-flux, Kateryna Iakovlenko, 18 July 2025
"Vogue Ukraine and PhotoVogue announce FUTURESPECTIVE 2025 Finalists”, Vogue, Ukraine, by PhotoVogue, April 2025
"Photos of Everyday Life During Wartime", MoMA Magazine, US, Kateryna Radchenko, 6 January 2025
"La force de résistance de la photographie ukrainienne dans une expo à Bruxelles", BeauxArts, Belgique, Charlotte Jean, 24 February 2024
"Resilience and bravery in Ukraine: PhotoBrussels festival 2024", The Guardian, UK, Fiona Shields, 30 January 2024
"PhotoBrussels : la capitale belge fait son festival", Fisheye, France, Eric Karsenty, 7 February, 2024
"In Ukraine a battle for the future", Blind Magazine, Iris Mandret, 9 February 2024
"La langue pour refuge", l’OBS, Luba Yakumtchuk, France, February 2024
"PhotoBrussels Festival : expressions en bataille", Milena Ill, Fisheye, 24 Janvier 2024
"En images - à Bruxelles, les photographes ukrainiens à l’honneur", Liberation, 20 Janvier 2024
"Créer en temps de guerre", Jean-Marc Bodson, Arts Libre (La Libre Belgique), Belgium, 31 January 2024
Gaze N4, LA REVUE DES REGARDS FÉMININS, France, June 2022
"Olena Subach", Secondary Archive, Kateryna Rusetska, 2022
"Hidden", Over, Katerina Radchenko, 10 November 2022
"The Information Front, #2. “Ukraine – The Path to Freedom", Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2022
"De verborgen schatten van Oekraïne", UNESCO, Lisanne Louise Bedaux, 13 December 2022
"The Angels of Lviv. Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction", The Atlantic, Linda Kinstler, October 2022
"Elena Subach compels us to imagine war beyond the frame", The British Journal of Photography, Liza Premyak, 4 July 2022
"Elena Subach", Burlington Contemporary, Sarah Bolwell, 10 June, 2022
"IM FADENKREUZ", Weltkunst, Germany, Simone Sondermann, 4 May, 2022
See Zeen, 2022
“ELENA SUBACH’S CHAIRS, AND THE ABSURDIST SYMPTOMS OF THE UKRAINIAN WAR”, Open Eye Gallery, The Double Negative and ArtReview, funded through Eurofestival, Matthew Lloyd, 2022
SZ Magazin, Germany, 2022
"Ukraińskie artystki w czasie wojny", Vogue Polska, MARCIN RÓŻYC, Poland, 2022
"Der Freitag", Der Freitag, Germany, 2022
‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show”, The Guardian , UK, 2022
FK Magazine, Latvia, 2022
Club Sandwich, France, 2021
"PHOTO JOURNAL MONDAY: ELENA SUBACH", Musée Magazine, June 2020
Paper Journal, Australia, 2020
"INTERVIEW WITH ELENA SUBACH AND VIACHESLAV POLIAKOV", GUP Magazine, Netherlands, 2019
"Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap", It’s Nice That, UK, 2019
"Олена Субач презентувала свої роботи на груповій виставці Woven Matters", Support Your Art, Ukraine, 2019
"Elena Subach's way of honouring her Ukrainian grandmother", C41, Italy, 2019
Knok Magazine, Japan, 2019
K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Greece, 2019
"City of Gardens" Exhibition by Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov”, EEP Berlin Magazine, Maya Hristova, Germany, 2019
"City of Gardens", Elena Subach & Viacheslav Poliakov", Photography in Berlin, 2019
"Kreuzberg goes east: EEP Berlin", Exberliner, Germany, June 2019
"Meteorite Berdychiv", Elena Subach, PH Museum, 2019
Ostlook, Germany, 2019
"Nonne ucraine", Ilpost, Italy, 2019
"City of Gardens", Lensculture, UK, 2018
The Village Ukraine, 2018
Der Greif, Germany, 2016–17
"New East Photo Prize. The Sacrifice by Elena Subach", Bird in Flight, Ukraine, 2016
Portfolio pdf
"Hidden" full series pdf
"Fragility" full series pdf