Masha Pryven, an artist, working primarily with photography. In her work, she explores the relationship between the political and the private, interested in the forms of co-authorship and collaboration.
Masha was raised in Luhansk (Ukraine) and studied in Kyiv. A Fulbright Graduate Scholarship recipient, she holds a M.A. degree in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, USA (2009–2011). In 2014, she moved to Berlin, Germany, and she has lived and worked there since. Currently she is an MA student at Berlin University of the Arts.
As an artist, Masha Pryven has exhibited both in institutional settings and non-art contexts,, including NART, Narva Art Residency (2024), Rathaus Lichtenberg (2024), Immanuel-Kant-School (2023), Berliner BücherTisch (2022), GlogauAir Gallery (2022, 2021) and others. Among the recent group exhibitions, there are Roots Gallery in Pisa (2023) and the duo exhibition »double take/побачити« Kateryna Lysovenko, Masha Pryven at Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (2023). Her first photography book The Way to Combray was published by Edition Frölich in Berlin in 2022.
One of Pryven’s collaborative projects See What I See was published in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, edited by Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and others, Thames and Hudson, UK, 2023. For the »ABC of WAR« project she received a Cultural Education Project Fund and follow-up support for an upcoming book based on it.
Photo Credits: Philippe Kayser
