Kseniya Angelova
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Ksenia Angelova (Xisha) was born in 1975 in Belarus. She is an icon painter, and mosaicist, graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts in 1991–1996. She continued her studies with three-year courses in icon painting from 2006 to 2009. She has decorated a number of temples and churches in Belarus and Ukraine. Facade frescoes, mosaics.
Since 2020 she is an author of The “Belarusian Martyrology”, the project turns into lifelong body of art, being inspired by the miracle of the humanity of Belarusians that was revealed during the peaceful protests against the falsification of the presidential election results in the summer of 2020.
The number of people who have gone through and are still going through imprisonment, torture, fines and exile is measured in thousands. In honor of Independence Belarusian Day on March 25, a mourning wall had painted by her for the library courtyard as a banner with the portraits of Belarusians, who did die over the past thirty years, as well as the names of Belarusian soldiers who did die in the war, fighting on Ukrainian site against Russians.
