Biography

Sveta Kaverina (b. 1977, former USSR) is a visual artist working with photography, video and text. With a background in cultural studies and a PhD in philosophy, she previously worked as a political journalist in Moscow before relocating to the UK in 2014 and settling in the Netherlands in 2022.

Her practice navigates spaces shaped by presence, absence, memory, mortality, and fractured identities — with embodiment and creativity serving as channels for articulating shared human experience. She often employs long exposures, poetic fragmentation, and performative strategies, she investigates the slippage between reality and its representation.

Her main medium is the artist book — a material object whose physical properties Sveta engages to expand the work’s field of meaning through a dialogue between form and content.

Her photobook projects have been shortlisted for the Dummy Award 2025, PhotoEspaña 2025, Encontros da Imagem 2025, and selected for the Photobook as Object 2025 Workshop (Reminders Photography Stronghold). Recent exhibitions include Belgrade Photo Month: The Book Embodiment Laboratory, The Nature of Distortion, and Der Greif x Münchner Kammerspiele Auf nach Woanders.

Sveta lives and works in Amsterdam.