Artist
Ana Zhuk
Belarusian Fine Art Photographer
Ана Жук · А.Ж.
Ana Zhuk is a Belarusian fine art photographer working across photography, video, and performance. Her practice explores memory, the body, and the state of being between home and exile — moments where personal experience ceases to be only personal and becomes an archetypal image in which a viewer can recognize their own story. Working primarily in high-contrast black and white, in the visual register of Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida and Japanese contemplative cinema, her images are simultaneously intimate and archetypal.
Her practice draws from diary-based observation and personal histories, frequently engaging biblical themes — exile, return, the body's connection to earth. She has exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Tbilisi (2023), the New Platform Tbilisi (2025), and at independent spaces in Belarus and Georgia since 2022. Her professional work has included photo curation for cross-disciplinary projects, workshop facilitation, and art direction for the RIA KEBURIA Foundation in 2025.
She is represented in the United States by Brett Sanders. Limited edition prints, music commissions, editorial work, and gallery inquiries are available through this site.
Color is too much information. This is more like memory remaining from reality.— Ana Zhuk, on why she works in black and white
I regulate the light and give the subject a simple action — and the body speaks for itself.— Ana Zhuk, on her process
We came from the earth and we will go into the earth. I love feeling that connection.— Ana Zhuk, on the body and landscape
Practice
Ana works across photography, video performance, and personal narrative. Her photographic work centers on portraiture and the figure — bodies and faces in stark, contemplative settings, treated as forms rather than as individuals. The visual language draws from European art-house cinema, particularly Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida, and from the contemplative pacing of Japanese cinema.
Recurring themes include identity, displacement, the body's connection to earth, and the personal becoming archetypal. The work emerged from and continues to be shaped by her movement between Belarus and Georgia — two cultures, two languages, two political climates.
Beyond photography, her practice extends into video work — including the ongoing music-and-visual collaboration DEAD SELF with Brett Sanders, performance documentation, and dance — and into curatorial and teaching work in Tbilisi's cross-disciplinary creative community.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2025Interaction, New Platform, Tbilisi
- 2025Fragment 19 (art direction), RIA KEBURIA Foundation, Tbilisi
- 2023Genesis, Brest, Belarus
- 2023Into the Water, Space KX Digital Gallery, Belarus (online)
- 2023SENSE / აზრი აქვს, Goethe-Institut, Tbilisi
- 2022The Invisible Ones, UZU House, Tbilisi
Selected Moving Image Work
- 2024–26Visual Director, DEAD SELF — 8 music videos directed to date (concept, direction, cinematography, editing)
Curatorial & Professional Work
- 2025Art direction, Fragment 19, RIA KEBURIA Foundation, Tbilisi
- 2024Photographer, Shamel Pitts / TRIBE Project, Platform for Contemporary Dance and Experimental Music, Tbilisi
- 2023Photo curator, Movement Adventure
- 2023Course creator, A Bird Flew Out research program
- 2022Photographer, Dance Performance, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial
- 2022Photographer & Videographer, Festival of Dance Practices "Collectiv__a", Tbilisi
- 2022Photographer, Creative Laboratory "A Place", Tbilisi
- 2022Workshop Facilitator, Photo Diaries and Photobooks Masterclass, Tbilisi
Representation
Ana Zhuk is represented in the United States by Brett Sanders. For sales, gallery placements, licensing, and editorial inquiries in the US market, please contact Brett directly through this site.
For inquiries in Europe, Russia, or other markets, please contact Ana directly.