olga karyakina

A visual artist working with range of media including installation, sculpture, video and printmaking. Developing her artistic concepts combining elements of audience participation and performance art with installation art. Artist’s practice focused on ecological issues and the relationship between human beings and the environment. Consistently involves the public into participation and provokes the viewers to think about the envi- ronment and everyday surroundings in a new way.

Has been selected for a number of world-famous art residencies, such as UNIDEE Cittadellarte (Italy), Home Base (Germany), Cambridge Sustainability Art Residency (UK), and others. Works were exhibited intenationally at solo and group exhibitions. Extensive portfolio is available for viewing.

Our site-specific installations create a new extension of the existing space, where the observer can get an unexpected experience of the presence. This experience is not about passions or disasters but it is often associated with ordinary feelings, everyday experience or childhood memories and the area of the common human sensibility. Such experience we can mark as “quiet” or “silent” happening or “anti-narrative inner theater”.

Working with public art commissions with Valery Kazas. We work in collaboration with a manufacturers and technical experts so even if weather conditions limits our choice of materials, we use the potential of these limits creatively. Each of our project is completely unique because of the consideration of place, research of it’s social history and natural conditions. In a dialog with architects and curators we work on possible ways to transform social idea into a form of a visual art.

Bilingual; English and Russian also speaks conversational Italian.