Oxana Guryanova is a visual artist working with photography, based in Cologne and Dortmund. She works at the intersection of portrait and documentary photography, with a strong focus on socially critical, cultural, and political themes. In her long-term artistic projects, she explores experiences of migration, discrimination, questions of identity, and the impact of global political events on individual and collective perception.
Guryanova works with both digital and analog photography and deliberately integrates experimental approaches into her practice. One of her key methods is remote photography a way of creating images across distance that allows for a rethinking of presence, intimacy, and authorship. This method has been employed in the projects In the space between times, Mothers in lockdown, and I would have never believed it, which addresses experiences of war, distance, and the impossibility of direct physical contact.
Alongside her artistic practice, Guryanova is actively engaged in educational and mediational work in the field of photography and visual culture (Kunstvermittlung). She develops and leads workshops and educational formats for adults, children, and teenagers, with a particular focus on mobile photography as an accessible and contemporary visual language.
Since 2022, Guryanova has been a member of Index.kollektiv, a collective of documentary photographers working on social issues. Together with the collective, she has realized several exhibition projects, including "Volume I" at Depot Kulturort in Dortmund. In 2025, the collective presented the exhibition "Restless Minds", focusing on ADHD and neurodivergent perception. The collective exhibition "O ihr Menschen" is currently on view at Haus Opherdicke.
The project I would have never believed It, realized as a photobook and based on the method of remote photography, was awarded the Bronze Award at the German Photobook Award 2024/2025.
oxana.guryanova@gmail.com
@oxana.guryanova
+49 179 88 66 346
@oxana.guryanova
+49 179 88 66 346