Biography
Veronika Shuster (1999, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a documentary filmmaker and a theater performer with a BA in Language, Literature, and comparative studies at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Currently she lives between Paris and Ukraine and obtains a practice-based Master degree `Theatre in creation` in the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
Having a background in ballet and contemporary dance, Veronika Shuster now works in contemporary theatre and film, actively integrating documentary and participatory practices into her artistic approach. As an immigrant and artist in exile, Veronika Shuster explores themes such as memory, identity, and the binary oppositions of connection/disconnection, displacement/belonging, isolation/integration.
In 2022, Veronika was selected for the Filmmaking Lab IndieLab, supported by the U.S. Embassy, where she co-directed the short documentary Say Szesc (2022–2023). From 2022 to 2023, she was an artist-in-residence with the Slovo Theater Group in Pittsburgh (USA), where she co-created and performed in a physical and documentary play about Ukraine. The piece toured across the U.S. East Coast, including presentations at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the A.R.T. Theatre in New York, and during residencies at City Theatre (PA) and ArtYard Theater (NJ).
Having a background in ballet and contemporary dance, Veronika Shuster now works in contemporary theatre and film, actively integrating documentary and participatory practices into her artistic approach. As an immigrant and artist in exile, Veronika Shuster explores themes such as memory, identity, and the binary oppositions of connection/disconnection, displacement/belonging, isolation/integration.
In 2022, Veronika was selected for the Filmmaking Lab IndieLab, supported by the U.S. Embassy, where she co-directed the short documentary Say Szesc (2022–2023). From 2022 to 2023, she was an artist-in-residence with the Slovo Theater Group in Pittsburgh (USA), where she co-created and performed in a physical and documentary play about Ukraine. The piece toured across the U.S. East Coast, including presentations at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the A.R.T. Theatre in New York, and during residencies at City Theatre (PA) and ArtYard Theater (NJ).