Maryna Shtanko is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with photography. She has Master’s degrees in both German language and literature and in communication design and photography. Growing up in Ukraine and relocating to Germany following the Russian full-scale invasion has deeply influenced her engagement with questions of place and collective trauma. By combining analogue photographic processes with textiles, video performances, and book-making, Maryna creates works that resist fixity, emphasizing vulnerability, resilience, and the porous boundary between image, matter, and lived experience. Maryna has been awarded several grants and scholarships, and her work has been exhibited in Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Switzerland, and Slovenia.