Halina Mihutskaya is an Amsterdam-based artist-researcher working at the intersection of embodied memory and structural critique.
Her practice emerges from the political and cultural landscapes of her Belarusian-Ukrainian background, where questions of history, ideology, and survival are carried through the body as lived experience. She approaches the body as a primary site of knowledge: an archive where memory is continuously written, repeated, and transformed.
Working across performance, research, and facilitation, she develops methodologies that combine the embodied rigor of laboratory-based theatre with critical cultural analysis. This work explores how performance can operate as a mode of inquiry rather than representation.
A central focus of her practice is collective composition: how artistic processes can be structured horizontally, and how authorship, attention, and decision-making shift within group dynamics. Through this, she examines the ethics of collaboration and the conditions under which shared artistic space can be constructed.
Her work frames performance as a research practice that tests how bodies, histories, and structures of power can be reorganised through embodied action.
She is currently developing this practice-led inquiry within a Research Master’s in Art and Performance at the University of Amsterdam.