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Katsiaryna Sumarava perfectly succeeded in creating a warm painting in cold colors. Very few artists managed to accomplish that...Blue-gray celestial distance. It’s clear and transparent. You are calm and relaxed. And suddenly you notice a huge blue bird flying in your direction. And as long as you observe the scenery all the more it gets dissolved. The blue bird reincarnates, it becomes you, your own consciousness…Such impressions are produced by the artist’s works. And that’s how it is – interpreting her paintings and graphics you should make a start from feelings they stir up. Katsiaryna is a philosopher, an idealist; substance is of secondary importance for her. 
Katsiaryna’s creative development has followed certain stages and resulted in a couple of major series of artworks. One of the series of landscape paintings and graphics is called ‘Subjectivity’. Katsiaryna explains that there is no single formula for a landscape genre. “As for me, a true landscape is the one based on sensitivity of perception. Such landscape is elusive like a mirage. It is a matter of a feeling but not of the material world… Someone might ask me – why have you painted the lake and water again, it feels like the same place over and over again? And this gives me something to think about – why indeed? But how to interpret a dream, which has been chasing me for a long time, at times recurring, someday continuing to develop”. Getting ready to the Art Exhibition of the Finalists of Osaka Triennale in 2001 where her painting “Legend” was on display, Katsiaryna expounded the concept of her work in the following way: “My Legend is not that traditional fixed item of cultural heritage. This Legend was told by the Earth itself and came from the original Source. The Earth and its stones are silent witnesses of the birth of life and its evolution. They are also the witnesses of history. They are soundless but their potential of energetic information is huge. A human, touching the stone with the palm, contacts the stream of Universe’s wisdom. And this illusion of communication is my “Legend” - the Legend of the harmony with the world. Since earliest times humans’ intention has been to balance the Chaos with the Harmony, to counterweight mind and mindless, kindness and angriness, life and death. But the World Chaos is our reality. We are surrounded by a host of contradictions; and it is exactly a contradiction that inspires any progress, diligence and desire of exploration in our lives. We live in such dynamic time - think about Progress, hi-tech and absolutely new standards of living that seemed fantastic just decades ago. It is necessary to stop, to join forces, energy and mind of Mother Nature...a human being is sitting on a giant rock, which was brought by a glacier thousands years ago. So many thoughts inhabited his mind…Legends…” Katsiaryna Sumarava was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1979
1998 - graduated from the Belarusian College of Arts with honors
2004 - graduated from the Belarusian Art Academy
2005 – in-depth study course at the Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy
since 2007 - a member of the Belarusian Artists' Union Personal Exhibitions:
2002 - Gallery of AB Bankas SNORAS. Vilnius, Lithuania
2003 - Art show “Antique”, Gallery of Goethe-Institut in Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2004 - Gallery of the Institute of Belarus. Vilnius, Lithuania
2005 - Art Exhibition of Graphics. The Embassy of Belarus in Italy. Rome, Italy.
2006 - Art show “Subjectivity”, the Museum of the Belarusian Art Academy. Minsk, Belarus.
2007 - Art show “Subjectivity”, Gallery of Goethe-Institut in Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2009 - "The Subjective Landscape", Museum of Contemporary Art. Minsk. Belarus Selected Group Exhibitions:
2000 - National Art Exhibition of Artists’ dynasties “Fathers & Sons”, the National Art Gallery. Minsk, Belarus
2001 - Art Exhibition “Art on paper”. Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001 - Art Exhibition of the Finalists of Osaka Triennale, CASO (Contemporary Art Space Osaka). Osaka, Japan
2001 - Art Exhibition “Sutin”, Gallery of the Artists' Union of Lithuania. Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 - Art Exhibition “Love. Labyrinth”, Gallery "ZilBel", Minsk. Belarus
2003 - Art Exhibition “Zelva”, Gallery of the Artists' Union of Poland. Warsaw, Poland
2003, 2005 - Art Exhibition during the Festival “Zdarzenia”. Poland
2004 - The Art Exhibition “Water. Interpretations”, Gallery of the Palace of the Republic. Minsk, Belarus
2006 - International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Utrecht, Holland
2007 - International Exhibition of Contemporary Art “Out Of Blue”. Brussels, Belgium
2007 - International Art Workshop “Pienkow 2007”. Uher, Poland
2007 - International Art Exhibition “Landscape”, Gallery of the National Library of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2007- Art Exhibition "Homo Pulcher", Gallery of the National Library of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2007- International Art Workshop ‘Nida”. Vilnius, Lituania
2007- Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts of Poznan, Poland
2008 - International Art Exhibition "Words and Paint", Gallery of the National Library of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2008 - the 1st Belarusian Biennale of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, the State Art Gallery 'The Palace of Art', Minsk, Belarus
2008 - Art Exhibition "New Time", the State Art Gallery 'The Palace of Art', Minsk, Belarus
2008 - Exhibition of Lanscape Art, the State Art Gallery 'The Palace of Art', Minsk, Belarus
2008 - Belarusian-German Art Project "Presentation", the Museum of the Belarusian Art Academy. Minsk, Belarus.
2009 - Art Show "Christmas Festival", the State Art Gallery 'The Palace of Art', Minsk, Belarus
2008, 2009 International Art Gathering "Pienkow", Poland
2010 - the 4th Biennial International Art Exhibition "Women and Art 2010 - A Global Perspective", Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates
2010 – "Vasily Sumarev. The Master and His Pupils", the State Art Gallery 'The Palace of Art', Minsk, Belarus
2010 - «Belart.by. Emerging Belarusian Artists», the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. Moscow, Russia Awards:
2000 - Diploma of the Republican Art Competition among emerging Belarusian artists
2001 - Grand prize of the National Competition dedicated to 550th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci.
2002 - 2003 Scholarship from the Fund for Support of Talented Belarusian Artists Her works are at numerous private collections in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, the Ukraine, Iran, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany and Italy.  [gallery of Katsiaryna Sumarava]
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