Solo exhibitions:

2014 — “Retablos de Galicia”, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2016 — “Слід: Taxidermia / Trace : Taxidermia”, as a part of Periscope photographic initiative, Lviv, Ukraine

2018 — “Субач / Поляков / Subach / Poliakov”, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko)

2019 — “City of Gardens”, “EEP Berlin” gallery, Berlin, Germany (curator — Maya Hristova)

2019 — “Heroic Trip”, “Szara” gallery, Catowice, Poland (curator — Andrzej Tobis)

2020 — “City of Gardens”, “Galerie 21 – im Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift”, Hamburg, Germany (curator — Jewgeni Roppel)

2020 — “Žensko lice Zenice / Female face of Zenica”, as a part of “Urbanherstories” project, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2022 — “Subach/Poliakov”, as a part of “Druh Druha / Друг друга” programme, Galeria Szara, Warsaw, Poland

2023 — “Hidden”, Bibliotheca Hertziana — Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy (curator – Oleksadra Osadcha)

 

 

Group exhibitons:

2016 — “ПогранКульт: ГаліціяКульт / BorderCult: GaliciaCult”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2016 — “Elementary Manipulation”, as a part of Ukrainian Week in Gdansk, Gdansk, Polamd

2016 — screening, “The Boutographies”, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

2017 — “EASTSTREET 4″ photofestival, Centre for the Meeting of Cultures, Lublin, Poland

2017 — “Knowns-Unknowns. Lviv’ photography after the year 2000”, “Białystok” festival, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok, Poland (curators —  Andrij Bojarov, Magdalena Świątczak)

2017 — “re_form“, Ostrale Biennale, Erlwein slaughterhouse, Dreseden, Germany (curators — Mykola Dzhychka, Oliver Kratz, Detlef Schweiger, Holger Wendland, Antka Hofmann, Andrea Hilger)

2017 — Festival of Ukrainian Youth Art (topic — “Today, which has never come”), “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Katerina Filiuk) 

2017 — “Znani-nieznani. Fotografia lwowska po roku”, as a part of “Białystok Interphoto”, festival, Ludwik ZamenhofCentre, Bialystok, Poland (curators — Andrij Bojarov, Magdalena Świątczak)

2017 — Festival of Ukrainian Youth Art (topic — “Today, which has never come”), “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Katerina Filiuk)

2018 — “Tam gdzie teraz”, “Labirynt“ gallery, Польща

2018 — “Ciruclations” festival, Paris, France

2018 — exhibition of “New East Photo Prize” short list, Calvert Foundation, Londong, United Kingdom 2019 — Second Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curators — Anastasiia Yevsieieva, Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska, Borys Filonenko)

2019 — FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

2019 — Fotofestival Lodz, Lodz, Poland

2019 — “Inny, Obcy, Swoi”,“Labirynt“ gallery, Lublin, Poland

2019 — “Український зріз / Ukrainian Section”, at ІVTriennale of Contemporary art as a part of Cultural Congress “Перехід 1989” (topic—“Rituals of Transition”), tenement of Semiradsky, Lviv, Ukraine (curators — Serhii Petliuk, Vlodko Kaufman)

2019 — “Ostlook platform: How to deal with history”, as a part of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia (curator — Jewgeni Roppel)

2019 — “Поговорімо про модерність / Let’s Talk about Modernity”, as a part of the cicle of exhibitions “24H Extended”, Jam Factory art centre, Lviv, Ukraine (curators —  Paulina Olszewska, Antek Burzyński)

2019 — “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now”, Semperdepot Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildendenKünste Wien, Vienna, Austria (curators — Alisa Lozhkina, Konstantin Akinsha) 

2019 — “Woven Matter”,“Unseen” platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2020 — “Staged Realities”, exhibition of “Ostlook Platform” (curator — Jewgeni Roppel) and “EEP Berlin” (curator—Maya Hristova), as a part of “Transcultural Festival Volksbühne Berlin”, Berlin, Germany

2021 — “Чутливість / Sensitivity”, “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine, (curators — Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov)

2022 — “In Ukraine”, Gallery at Dobbin Mews, New York, USA (curator — Ira Lupu and Fred Ritchin)

2022 — “Slava Ukraini”, Czwartek gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2022 — “Unfolding Landscapes—Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Art Centre SilkeborgBad, Silkeborg, Denmark (curator — Faye Dawling)

2022 — “Ukraine. The Pass to Freedom”, Noorderlicht Photography Foundation, Groningen, Netherlands (curators — Kateryna Radchenko, Wim Melis)

2022 — “Stand with Ukraine”, as a part of Photaumnales Diaphane Photo Festival, Église Saint-Etienne, Beauvais, Haut de France, France

2022 — “The Cockerel with Black Wings: A Recovered Heirloom”, as part of viennacontemporary STATEMENT UKRAINE, das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria (curator — Kateryna Filyuk)

2022 — “We No Longer Feel the Future”, MUZA — Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (curators — Suzanne Landau, Svitlana Reingold)

2022 — “With Ukraine”, Hinterconti Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2022 — “Незридані сльози / Unwept Tears”, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany

2022–23 — “Tell Them About Battles, Meteors and Eggplant Caviar”, Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres-de-Bretagne; Simultania Gallery, Strasbourg; Claude Cahun Center, Nantes, France (curator — Kateryna Radchenko)

2023 — “CROSS-ING WAY-S”, Museum of Modern Religious Art, Brussels, Belgium (curator — Denys Shantar)

2023 — “Crossing Lines”, as part of Foto Wien Festival, Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna, Austria (curators — Kateryna Radchenko, Felix Hoffmann)

2023 — “Home. Ukrainian Photography”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom (curators — Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi)

2023 — “How Did I Get To The Bombshelter”, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia; Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland; Ukrainian House, Copenhagen, Denmark; Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipėda, Lithuania (curator — Yuliia Sapiga)

2023 — “How River Roars”, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland (curators — Oleksandra Pogrebniak, Antoni Burzyński)

2023 — “Kharkiv School of Photography: 50 Jahre künstlerische Fotographie”, MAXI.kunst, Nuremberg, Germany (curator — Illia Zhekalov)

2023 — “Screen[far]shots: Ukraine. Work-in-Progress”, KVOST Center, Berlin, Germany (curators — Maia Hristova, Amina Ahmed)

2023 — “The Art of Coping with War — Ukrainische Fotografie”, as part of the European Month of Photography, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany (curators — Halyna Hleba, Olga Balashova)

2023 — “Дім за зорею / Home After the Dawn”, MUSA — Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico (curator — Natalia Matsenko)

2023 — “Наші роки, наші слова, наші втрати, наші пошуки, наші ми / Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us”, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine (curators — Kateryna Iakovlenko, Natalia Matsenko, Borys Filonenko)

2023 — “Ти як? / How Are You?”, National Center “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Yehor Antsyhin, Olga Balashova, Halyna Hleba, Yuliia Karpets, Anna-Maria Kucherenko, Kateryna Libkind, Tetiana Lysun, Oleksandr Soloviov)

2023 — Riga Photography Biennial “NEXT 2023!”, Riga, Latvia (curators — Evita Goze, Yulia Krivich)

2024 — “Contra Spem Spero. Stories from Ukraine”, Mattatoio, Rome; Ex Polveriera Francese, Venice; Chamber of Commerce, Genoa; Stelline Foundation, Milan; International Center of Photography, Palermo, Italy (curator — Kateryna Radchenko)

2024 — “Перше необхідне / First Aid”, Kyiv’s Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Isabella van Marle, Sonia Kvasha)

2024 — “Generations of Resilience”, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (curator — Kateryna Radchenko)

2024 — “Home Again — Migration | Home | Memory”, City Council, Ulm, Germany (curators — Andy Heller, Oliver Krebs)

2024 — “Home: Ukrainian Photography”, Edinburgh Art Festival, Steel Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (curators — Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi)

2024 — “NichteLemberg”, 91 Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (curators — Hanna Mykytiuk, Kateryna Turenko, Nikita Kadan)

2024 — “Testimony”, Boris Lurie & Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

2025 — “How Did I Get To The Bombshelter”, Linda 2, Narva, Estonia (curator — Yuliia Sapiga)

 

Book

Subach, Elena. Hidden. London: Besides Press, 2022.

Periodicals

Club Sandwich, no. 4 (2020), The Chocolate Issue.

Gaze, no. 4 (2022).

Over, no. 3 (2022).

Sonderman, Simone. “Kulturgut im Ukraine-Krieg. Im Fadenkreuz.” Weltkunst, no. 198 (2022).

Online Publications and Interviews

Bedaux, Lisanne Louise. “De verborgen schatten van Oekraïne.” Unesco Nederlandse Commissie, December 13, 2022. https://www.unesco.nl/nl/artikel/de-verborgen-schatten-van-oekraine.

Blanco, Alex. “Interview with Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov.” GUP Magazine, no date. https://gupmagazine.com/interview/interview-with-elena-subach-and-viacheslav-poliakov/?fbclid=IwAR1d1dSpHO20wIVbQbK9l6x7XWVdixjUaHPEI1dk98qgYeVTknZbJ47kGJM.

Bolwell, Sarah. “Elena Subach.” Burlington Contemporary, July 10, 2022. https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/articles/elena-subach.

Kinstler, Linda. “The Angels of Lviv.” The Atlantic, September 10, 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/elena-subach-photographs-ukraine-invasion/671240/.

Kozma, Leila. “Interview — Elena Subach: Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven.” Paper Journal, April 30, 2020. https://paper-journal.com/interview-elena-subach-grandmothers-on-the-edge-of-heaven/.

Moroz, Sarah. “‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show.” The Guardian, March 16, 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/16/glory-ukraine-photographers-show-true-spirit.

“Photo Journal Monday: Elena Subach.” Musée Magazine, July 20, 2020. https://museemagazine.com/culture/2020/7/20/photo-journal-monday-elena-subach.

Premiyak, Liza. “Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov: post-industrial Silesia, but not as you know it.” Calvert Journal, November 23, 2018. https://gupmagazine.com/interview/interview-with-elena-subach-and-viacheslav-poliakov/?fbclid=IwAR1d1dSpHO20wIVbQbK9l6x7XWVdixjUaHPEI1dk98qgYeVTknZbJ47kGJM.

“Photos of Everyday Life During Wartime. War compels three Ukrainian artists to rethink their approach to photography.” MoMA, January 6, 2025. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1165.

Premiyak, Liza. “Elena Subach compels us to imagine war beyond the frame.” The British Journal of Photography, July 4, 2022. https://www.1854.photography/2022/07/elena-subac-compels-us-to-imagine-war-beyond-the-frame/.

Rózyc, Marcin. “Ukraińskie artystki w czasie wojny.” Vogue Polska, March 3, 2022. https://www.vogue.pl/a/ukrainskie-artystki-w-czasie-wojny.

Smutko, Alina. “Bilder aus dem Krieg.” Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, July 1, 2022. https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/leben-und-gesellschaft/ukraine-krieg-bilder-91692.

Snoad, Laura. “Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap.” It’s Nice That, May 13, 2019. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/viacheslav-poliakov-lviv-gods-will-photography-180419.

Tondo, Lorenzo, and Peter Beaumont. “‘Wir werden kämpfen’: Wie sich Lwiw auf den Erstfall vorbereitet.” der Freitag, March 26, 2022. https://www.freitag.de/autoren/the-guardian/wir-werden-kaempfen-wie-sich-lwiw-auf-den-erstfall-vorbereitet.

Ukraine. see:zeen, 2022. https://see-zeen.com/ukraine.

Wright, Sophie. “City of Gardens.” Lens Culture, no date. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/viacheslav-poliakov-city-of-gardens?fbclid=IwAR1zUm99xqIzT_xAjoLZj3Blj0RC0Z1vU25RahK9x7zIvBgeV07Rwbh-nM8.

Лозицкий, Богдан [Lozytskyi, Bohdan]. “Елена Субач: ‘Хорошая фотография — та, о которой жалеешь, что ее снял не ты’.” Bird in Flight, December 7, 2016. https://birdinflight.com/ru/portret/20161207-elena-subach-horoshaya-fotografiya-ta-o-kotoroj-zhaleesh-chto-snyal-ne-ty.html.

Сандуляк, Аліна [Sanduliak, Alina]. “Про неможливість мистецтва в момент катастрофи: розмова з фотографкою Еленою Субач.” Суспільне Культура, June 18, 2024. https://suspilne.media/culture/765675-pro-nemozlivist-mistectva-v-moment-katastrofi-rozmova-z-fotografkou-elenou-subac/.

“Чай, кава, Дзвіниця. Олена Субач і В’ячеслав Поляков — у ‘Рівні цензури’.” Zaborona, no date. https://zaborona.com/chaj-kava-dzvinyczya-olena-subach-i-vyacheslav-polyakov-u-rivni-czenzury/.