Katya Bogachevskaia (b. 1986) is a visual artist, curator, editor, and lecturer from St. Petersburg, based in Lisbon.
With an academic background in philosophy and many years of experience as a photo editor, curator, and lecturer, she began developing her own visual practice after moving to Portugal in 2023.
Shaped by experiences of displacement and forced migration after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, her work reflects on memory, loss, identity, and the fragile relationship between personal and collective history.
Working with photography and archival materials, Bogachevskaia creates metaphorical visual narratives that connect intimate experience with broader historical and political realities.
She was nominated for Futures Photography Talents (2024), shortlisted for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award (2024), and won the Narrativa/Fujifilm Award (2025). Her work has been published by Der Greif, among others.
She is the founder of the Academy of Documentary and Art Photography Fotografika and an editor at Republic Media.
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Education:
2000-2015 Institute of Philosophy St. Petersburg State University; philosopher, teacher
Work in media:
2021- till now Editor of Photojournal of Republic Media
2011-2013 Visual editor of special projects and head of the PhotoDepartment of the Lenta.ru portal
2008-2014 Editor of the M-Journal of Documentary Photography and Multimedia Liberty.SU
Teaching:
2015- till now The Academy of Documentary and Art Photography Fotografika
2016-2018 Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Media Technologies, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design / St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Lecturer of BAJ educational course “Catch the Moment. Basics of photojournalism” / Vilnius, Lithuania
2014-2015 Photo Department Institute / St. Petersburg, Russia
2014-2015 Curator of the Faculty of photojournalism named by Y.Galperin / St. Petersburg, Russia
Festivals:
2018 Curator of the direction “Contemporary Photography” at the photo festival “Photoparade in Uglich” / Uglich, Russia
2017 Curator of “Documentary Photography” direction at the photo festival “Photoparade in Uglich” / Uglich, Russia
Curatorial:
2021 Exhibition of contemporary photography “Home” in the festival’s framework “The First Factory of Avant-Garde”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Participants: Ikuru Kuwajima, Igor Samolet, Maria Dyupovkina, Yana Romanova, Olga Pegova, Ksenia Ryabova, Kristina Sergeeva / Ivanovo, Russia.
2021 Exhibition “Family Portrait”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaya. Fotografika Gallery / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2021 “Colours of the City” by Alexander Lefler. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia
SHKAF space | library | art residence / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2020 “Pure with a taste of triangles”, exhibition by artist Alena Zhandarova. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Fotografika Gallery / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2020 “Reflection”, a cross-media exhibition by photographer Maria Dyupovkina. Curators: Katya Bogachevskaia and Marina Dvroskaia. SHKAF space | library | art residence / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2019 “Between”, within the framework of Festival OFF Bratislava. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. OD DUNAJ, Námestie SNP 30 space/ Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 “Future”, within the framework of the contemporary art festival “First Avant-Garde Factory”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Sheremetev Centre/ Ivanovo, Russia
2018 “Borders” as part of the “Fotoparad photo festival in Uglich”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia /Uglich, Russia
2018 “Draft” by Dmitry Markov. Curator: Katya Bogachevskayia. Gallery “Fotografika” / St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 “One on One” by Evgenia Efremova. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. FFTN gallery/ St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 “Point of Return” as part of “Photoparade photo festival in Uglich”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Uglich, Russia
2017 Exhibition of “Valery Faminsky V.1945”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Gallery “Fotografika” / St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 “North” by Igor Elukov. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Gallery “Fotografika” / St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 “Planet K” by Sergey Stroitelev. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Gallery “Fotografika” / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 “Invisible Country”. Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Norilsk Art Gallery, as part of the Festival of Photography “Polar” / Norilsk, Russia
2013 “From White to Black”. Curators: Katya Bogachevskaia and Konstantin Benediktov. Gallery of Classical Photography / Moscow, Russia
2012 “Invisible Country” at the Regional Museum of Local Lore as part of the festival “Days of Documentary Photography”.Curator: Katya Bogachevskaia. Tomsk / Russia
Scientific activity:
2011-2015 Staff member of the Centre for Media Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint-Petersburg State University (SPbSU)
2015 Co-organiser of the conference AFTER (POST)PHOTOGRAPHY Conference on Photography Theory and Visual Studies Conference Organising Committee: Maria Gurieva (SPbGIK), Ekaterina Bogachevskaya (SPbSU), Friedrich Tetjen (University of Vienna)
2015 Paper “Postdoc: Between Photojournalism and Art” (2015, Conference on Photography Theory and Visual Studies After (Post)Photography) St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Art
2015 Paper “From documentary to post-documentary: photography and film” (as part of the workshop “visual practices” of the Media Philosophy Research Centre (Institute of Philosophy, SPbSU)
Publications:
D-Reppubblica, National Geographic, Newsweek, NRC Hasselblad, Expert, Ogonyok and others
Other Activities:
2020 Organiser of the Photographers to Doctors charity auction during the Covid epidemic with 138 photographers