Jane Federer (ex Kritchko) — b. 1995, Minsk, Belarus - is a multimedia artist, painter, living and working in Boelhe, Porto.
She arrived from a land where questions were not welcomed, carrying family obligations, and seeking to take a deep breath in liberty. From a post-Soviet context marked by social transformation, through performing arts training at the National Academic Drama Theatre named after Maksim Gorky in Minsk (2009–2010), and into a Master's degree in Computer Science, specializing in physics and algorithms, at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (2012–2017), She accumulates in her a systematic mind paired with observational and perceptional skills: the eye of an actress and the logic of an engineer, learning to read presence, gesture, and pattern at once.
Group exhibition, where her work How Humans See Artworks (Minsk, 2019) paired paintings with data visualizations drawn from eye-tracking sessions, surfacing the invisible patterns of attention that guide how we look.
In 2021, she settled in Lisbon, Portugal; Now living in Boelhe, she works at the intersection of painting, technology, and research on perception – creating what she calls experience art: artworks assembled from data analysis, interviews, and historical inquiry, translated through painting, laser interventions, and interactive pressure-sensor systems into a shared narrative for the viewer.
Her current practice investigates the liminal space between individual perception and collective memory, inviting audiences to participate in the construction of the work itself – the materialization of gesture, pressure, and color as traces that emotion and experience leave in matter.
Jane considers herself a perceiving creature, one who might equally be called an environmentalist.