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, and mortality — with embodiment and creativity serving as channels for articulating shared human experience. Often using long exposures, poetic fragmentation, and performative strategies, she investigates the slippage between reality and its image. 

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, 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.

Education

Docdocdoc Photography School, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Experiences of Contemporary Photography                           2024 — to date

Nizina Lab, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Conceptual Photography                                             2023 — 2024

Private Image Lab, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Think a Project                                                    2023 — 2024

Fotodepartament Photography School, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Surmounting the Photography                                        2016 — 2017

Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

PhD in Philosophy                                                  2001 — 2004

Central European University (Soros Foundation), Warsaw, Poland

MA in Culture and Society                                          2000 — 2001

Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

MA in Sociology                                                    1994 — 2000 

 

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