Angie Siveria (legally Anzhela Schuster, born Anzhela Bogachenko) is a Ukrainian illustrator, filmmaker and poet. She was born in Donetsk, grew up in Mykolaiv, lived in Kyiv and currently lives in Berlin. Angie also has Bulgarian, Greek, Polish and other roots.

She has two higher education degrees: designer of the environment (Mykolaiv's branch of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, 2006-2011) and scriptwriter of cinema and TV (Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Ukraine, 2011-2015).

Angie has experience in various art fields, including book illustration, board and video game illustration, comic book illustration, book trailers, album artwork and music videos, video art backdrops for theaters, video poetry and more.

She took part in various art exhibitions and video projects:

• First personal exhibition "TRACK-LIST" (gallery "GALLERY 45", Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 2016);
• "A4, Ballpoint Pen" exhibition (gallery "Karas", Kyiv, Ukraine 2015-2019; Gallery "Arsenal" at the festival "Book Arsenal", Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017);
• art installation artist and author of poetic films at "GOGOL Fest" (Kyiv, 2014, 2015);
• international art exhibition "COW" (Dnipro, 2015);
• creation of an animated background to a concert featuring works of Morton Feldman with the ensemble “Sed Contra Ensemble” (“Dim aktora”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2016);
• creation of a video for a performance concert featuring works of Mauricio Kagel with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, with the musicians of the “Sed Contra Ensemble”, as well as with the assistance of the Kyiv organization of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (“New Theater on Pechersk”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018);
• Creation of animated book trailers for books by Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Arenev (“Powder from the dragon bones” and “Dushnytsya”, 2016);
• A number of short films for the project "Ukrainians read Stanisław Lem" with the support of the Polish Institute in Kyiv (2016-2017), where Angie was director and editor;
• Creation of a book trailer for the book “Still Waters Run Deep” by Yevhen Lir (2018);
• “NordArt Ukraine” with the project “THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY” as part of the “A4, ballpoint pen” project (Kunst in der Carlshütte GmbH, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2021);
• "Granice, Grenzen, Кордони, Ribos" - a collective Polish-Ukrainian-German-Lithuanian exhibition with the video project “Dreams of Vanishing Islands" with Andrii Merkhel’s music (gallery “Sztuki ROZruch” Poznan, Poland, 2022; the church St. Thomas, Berlin, Germany, 2022) etc.
• Creating a visual background for “Live in concert: Ukrainian cellist Denys Karachevtsev” (Berlin-Vienna, 2022);
• Collective exhibition “The Ties that Bind” (Duza Scena UAP Gallery, Poznan, Poland, May 11- 28, 2023) etc.

Angie participated in residencies and took part in literature projects:

• In autumn 2014, Angie was selected by the famous Ukrainian writers Taras Prokhasko, Yurii Andrukhovych and Vasyl Karpyuk as a resident for their project of young Ukrainian writers "Stanislavsky Phenomenon" (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). At the end of the residence an almanac of essays was published: "Stanislavsky phenomenon. Occasional guests" (“Discursus”, 2014). Angie also created during and after the residency a number of poetry films based on the poems of Yurii Andruhovich and Serhiy Zhadan, with which she won at international film festivals;
• From 2014 to 2016, she was a finalist in the "Short Story in Ukrainian" contest from "Krayina" magazine, was published in the collections "Euromaidan. Chronicle in short stories" and "Crimea in Ukrainian. Funny and sad stories" ("Discursus", 2014-2015);
• Angie was a participant in the following international events: "Book Arsenal" (Kyiv, 2015-2018), "Lviv’s publishers Forum" (Lviv, 2015), "Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon" (Poznan, Poland, 2017), the cultural exchange project "Tandem Ukraine (participant in poetry readings with Belarusian artists Baisan, Buben and Narushevich. Ukraine, Belarus, 2017), "Creative Youth Seminar" (STM) on the initiative and under the patronage of the Ukrainian publishing house "Smoloskyp" (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2016);
• participation in the “Viadrinicum Summer School. BorderLab. Borderland Experiences" (Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, 2017) etc.

Angie participated and won prizes at the following international film festivals:

• International video poetry festival “CYCLOP” (short-list, 1 and 3 place, Kyiv, 2012-2015);
• “Days Of Ukrainian Cinema In Spain” (Spain, Catalonia, 2014);
• International Film Festival “Vidkryta nich” (winning in the nomination “My independence”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015);
• International Film Festival “MOLODIST” (short-list, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015);
• X and XII International Festival of amateur, student and non-professional cinema “KINOKIMERIYA” (I and III places in 2015 and III place in 2017, Kherson, Ukraine);
• International poetry festival «Liberated Words» (short-list, of Bath, UK, 2016);
• International Film Festival OIFF (non-competition, Odesa, Ukraine, 2016);
• The 4th Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition (short-list, Ireland, Cork, 2016, 2022);
• International poetry film festival “ZEBRA” (Berlin, Germany, 2014, 2016, 2022; a finalist in the nomination “Festival poem by Mustafa Stitou” in 2016);
• International film poetry festival “Fotogenia” (Mexico City, Mexico, 2022) etc.

Angie illustrated books, album covers and games:

• Illustrations of portraits of Stanisław Lem’s 5 volumes of the Ukrainian translation of “Lemov’s Pentateuch” (publishing house “Educational Book Bohdan”, Ukraine, 2016, 2017);
• Illustrations for the book “Let’s talk about it?” by Oksana Deeptan (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017);
• Illustrations for the book “Frost and sun - a wonderful day. My little textbook” by Arkady Shtypel (Publishing House “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine, 2016);
• Illustrations for the book “Steppe God. Hassara” by Yevhen Lir (“Dim Khymer”, Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 2019);
• She was also published in the “KyivComicCon” comics almanac (2015-16);
• Since 2016, Angie made several album and sheet music book covers for the German composer Oskar Schuster and took part in creating his music videos “Sedmikrásky”, “Miramis”, “Odesa” and “Morimond”.
• In 2017 she illustrated the Ukrainian board game “Book of the Sorcerer” (FEELINDIGO publishing house, Kyiv, 2017);
• In 2020 Angie made illustrations for the video game “October Night Games” (a Ukrainian-German project) etc.