Polina Masevnina (1997, Ryazan, Russia ), a multidisciplinary visual artist and self-publisher based in the Czech Republic, draws upon radical intimacy, erotic and pornographic aesthetic, rawness, and the utilization of her own body as an instrument to unite various media and themes within her artistic practice. Rooted in tumultuous conflict and liminality, her work transcends boundaries, interweaving concept with artistic form. Masevnina often operates at the nexus of text and image, manipulating and blending these elements to craft minimalist objects with complex and often ambivalent dynamic. At the core of her artistic expression lies a dynamic tension, exploring contrasts between the external and internal, and the personal and the political.Polina describes her visual and verbal language as instinctive, violent, intimate, narcissistic, open to a thousand possible interpretation.
Since 2019, she has been developing and publishing her personal photography series in the form of an intimate diary through self-published editions.

SELF-PUBLISHED EDITIONS
absolute love (2019)
nameless faceless shameless (2020)
blurred memories of the touch (2021)
Q’20 (2021)
unspoken letter: letter n1, letter n2 (2022) 
escapism as destructive action (2023)
Half Empty (2023) 
That could be us (2024) 
где дом мой? (2024) 
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
твои безрассудные тонкие плечи / your subtle reckless shoulders, curator: Karolina Kohoutková
venue: Galerie Umakart , Brno, Czech Republic 27. 06.–04. 09. 2022
Unspoken letter n3, Paulina Masevnina and Adam Michálek, curator: Miroslava Urbanová
venue: Galéria Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia, 31. 13.–15. 15. 2022
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
Mimicry, Metaphor, Mistake, curator: Venelin Shurelov
Toplocentrala Gallery - Cube, Sofia, Bulgaria  27.06 – 7.07.2024
SPOOKY HOUSE - Night of Queer Interventions, curators: Voin de Voin and Michaela Lakova
Rotterdam, Netherlands 03.08.2024
You must entertain!, curators: Adam Michálek and Michal Mitro
BOBy Centrum, Brno, Czech Republic 19.07.2024
SPORNO festival, curators: Voin de Voin and Michaela Lakova
Sofia, Bulgaria 25. 06.–30. 06. 2024
Sofia Underground Performance Festival, curators: Studio DauHaus and Synaesthesia Collective
OKI Krasno Selo, Sofia, Bulgaria 24. 04.–28. 04. 2024
Ode Nie Tamo, curator: art group drugo mesto
 Drugo Mesto, Belgrade, Serbia, 17. 04.–05. 05. 2024
Darwin was my first crush, curators: Neprho Studio and Adam Michálek 
Photogether gallery, Zlin, Czech Republic 13. 09.–13. 10. 2023
Ja sam ranjivost, curators: Nu Simakina, Kota Davudova
Bienale of Youth, Belgrade, Serbia 05. 09.–01. 10. 2023
Through my eyes to your mouth
"Liquid Queer Memoria" project, curator: Jitka Hlavačková
Troja Palace, Prague, Czech Republic 22.8.2023
Casting
Festival of the naked forms, curator:  Lenka Klodova
Altenburg, Prague, Czech Republic 9.9-11.9. 2022
Make porn not war
Y: NORMAL BODIES, curators:  Anna Chrtková & Petr Dlouhý
Divadlo X10 , Prague, Czech Republic 18. 4. 2022
Photography in the context of domestic violence
exhibition by FFA BUT and Magdalenium, curator: Krystina Kolářová
Místodržitelský palác , Brno, Czech Republic 3. 12.–27. 12. 2021
BACTIHUB+
exhibition by Nephro Studio, curator: Denis Baštuga & Nephro Studio
4.09.2021, 18:00–19:00, NTK Gallery, Prague Biennale Projekt 2021: RE–CONNECT ART
Do It Your Way
exhibition by Body Design Studio of FFA BUT, curator: Lenka Klodová
Body Design Studio, FFA BUT, Brno, Czech Republic 19. 11.–21. 12. 2019
Day Off: Final Downcycling
Exhibition the Intermedia Studio of FFA BUT curator: Miroslav Macík
Rainbow Gallery, Prostějov, Czech Republic 8. 3.–8. 4. 2019

Afraid of Virginia
Jelizaveta Kazanceva venue: BEPX, Minsk, Belarus 13.10- 16.10. 2017
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 
Footnote Centre for Image and Text - Artist Residency, May 2024 Belgrade, Serbia
Footnote Centre for Image and Text - Artist Residency, March 2023 Belgrade, Serbia
PRESS 
WÜL COLLECTIVE 
Collater: Poi abbiamo passato la serata insieme
Collater: Perché non sei qui stanotte?
FM ZINE: Bolest, něha, umění: BDSM na Flédě
TS: Paulina Masevnina a Adam Michálek v Galérii Medium
NINU NINA: Erotic artist Paulina Masevnina
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
NAKID MAGAZINE , BOOOOOOOM MAGAZINE , GLOW PROJECT , TOKSIC MAGAZINE , NOT BASIC MAGAZINE, No1 Gender Issue , REKT MAGAZINE , PAP MAGAZINE , CONTRIBUTOR MAGAZINE , CAKE MAGAZINE , BADSEEDZINE , WUL MAGAZINE , THE FLOW HOUSE MAGAZINE  ,C-HEADS MAGAZINE, PORNCEPTUAL