Mila Kotka, born in 1981 in Smilavichy, Belarus, is an artist, cultural activist, and producer specializing in Brazilian culture research. One of the key figures in shaping modern street art in Belarus, she is also a founder and curator of international art initiatives.
A representative of bio-art, she is the creator of her unique artistic method and style “bio-hieroglyphs” — ephemeral compositions made from endemic natural elements of specific biomes, arranged into abstract symbolic structures. The artist combines several art forms: ephemeral installations made from living plants, their digital versions, as well as physical artworks. She creates a hybrid image where different media merge, making it hard to discern whether it’s living plants, a drawing, a photograph, or even generative art altogether.
Mila Kotka’s work is devoted to themes of harmony, balance, self-awareness, geocentrism, animism, and ritual as a cultural form. In her artistic practice, she turns to neuroaesthetics and semiotics within artistic research, as well as philosophical and cultural concepts of human-nature interaction, including ecological philosophy and posthumanist approaches.
