Ala Savashevich works with sculpture, installation, video and performance. In her artistic practice she addresses the issues of social pressure, control mechanisms and oppressive systems. In particular, she explores themes of collective memory, trauma and identity formation in societies with experience of authoritarianism and patriarchy. Savashevich is interested in the mechanisms of socialisation into the role of women in family systems, education and through the gendered division of labour. By working through histories of exploitation and violence, she also visualises the prospects of reclaiming agency, solidarity and freedom. In her works she often uses the atavistic power of the image, coping with the post-Soviet symbolic and material heritage.

Savashevich is a graduate of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk and the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts. The artist is a laureate of the ING Polish Art Foundation Award 2021, while in 2025 she was nominated for prestigious Polityka Magazine’s Passport Award within visual arts category. Her recent solo exhibitions include: The Rite Of Fall at Cricoteka (2024) in Cracow, 1374 (2024) at eastcontemporary in Milan and Can one guess what will have to be remembered (2021) at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok. Savashevich has shown in group exhibtions at Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2024) in Warsaw, Kunsthaus Graz (2024) in Graz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (2024) in Dresden, Krupa Art Foundation (2024) in Wroclaw, West Den Haag in Hague (2023), Kode Art Museum (2023) in Bergen, Central Museum of Textiles (2023) in Łódz, Manifesta 14 Biennale (2022) in Pristhina, GFZK (2022) in Leipzig, Sentiment in Zurich (2022), Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (2022), as well as BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Wrocław, Katowice and Zielona Góra. Her works are part of ING Polish Art Foundation, NOMUS Museum in Gdansk and private collections.