Anastasiia Batishcheva is a visual artist, whose practice analyses the borders of visuality and challenges the regime of (in)visibility. She examines ideological cultural policy and its monumental embodiment in architecture and fine art, thereby addressing archival materials, found footage, and artistic research to investigate how political narrative is constructed and upheld.
Her background is rooted in Ukrainian classical fine art education, which later expanded into a lens-based practice in Germany. This transition enabled her to develop the necessary critical distance to engage with the legacy of eastern European culture and the apparatus of image production in a less biased way.

Anastasiia Batishcheva (born Charkiw) is a visual artist. She was educated in the classical principles of fine art in the Ukraine, which developed into a more lens-based practice whilst in Germany. She was able to find the necessary distance to focus on the artistic heritage of the Eastern European cultural hemisphere in a less biased way. In her work, Batischcheva addresses cultural policy and its monumental manifestations in architecture and fine art. To this end, she draws on archives, found footage and her own artistic research. Photography often serves as the starting point of her practice, evolving into digital montage, investigative research formats and spatial installations. In 2025, she was awarded the Karl & Faber Prize. In 2026, she the Debutant prize by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, as well as the Expanded Horizons Award from the House of Photography and the Körber Foundation in Hamburg. Anastasiia Batishcheva’s works have been shown internationally, including at Haus der Kunst, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the ETH Zurich, as part of the Artists’ Research Laboratory of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, and at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.