Olia Fedorova (born on 11 Feb 1994 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the field of conceptual art by means of text and textile, as well as photography and video. Since late 2022 based in Graz, Austria, where she works as a part of the team of «Office Ukraine – Support for Ukrainian Artists» and «ZIEGEL. Atelier community of Ukrainian artists» – an independent atelier and project space.
Olia Fedorova is a part of the «Secondary Archive» - Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe (since 2021); «Ukraine Ablaze» - the Ukrainian war-time art online archive launched by Mystetskiy Arsenal art centre (since 2022) and «The Wartime Art Archive» by Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art (since 2023).Her works are included in the collections of Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Jeonbuk Province Art Museum (Republic of Korea), also in the private collections in Ukraine, Germany and Norway.
Education:
2024 – … – MA «textile.art.design» at Art University Linz (Austria).
2012 – 2016 – Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Ukraine).
2008 – 2012 – Kharkiv Art College (Ukraine).
Awards:
Project Scholarship from the city of Graz (Austria, 2025); Scholarship from the President of Ukraine (2025); Contest for young Ukrainian artists MUKHI 2017 (finalist, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017); Contemporary visual art contest of Nathan Altman (winner, Vinnytsya, Ukraine, 2017); Contemporary art festival «Non Stop Media VIII» (finalist, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2016).
Selected solo exhibitions:
2026: «Bold Lines. Fragile Lines» in ZETA Gallery (Tirana, Albania); «Maps of the Disappearing» in Kunstfenster Gnas (Gnas, Austria); «Dreams, Memories and Losses» in ZIEGEL (Graz, Austria)
2025: «More than nothing. Less than something» in kollektiv:raum (Graz, Austria).
2024: «Ghosts of Memories | Memories about Ghosts» in off_gallery (Graz, Austria) – link; «Home 22-24» in Depot 12-59 (Kyiv, Ukraine).
2023: «The landscape I am scared to forget» in Galeria Dim (Warsaw, Poland); «Love | Rage» in Artsvit gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine) – link.
2022: «Tablets of Rage» in Dzyga art center (Lviv, Ukraine); «Off-Road» in Kunsthalle Graz (Graz, Austria) – link.
2021: «Garage Sale» in Garage 127 gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
2020: «Weather Diaries / Weather Maps» in Municipal gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine); «Keep it to yourself, tell no one» in Detector gallery (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).
2019: «Going to the Strawberry Fields» in Dymchuk gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine) – link; «Nothing Will Come of Nothing» in Circolo Cavallerizza (Torino, Italy).
Selected art residencies:
2026: Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France), supported by Austrian Cultural Forum, City of Paris & Salzamt Linz – link; ZETA Gallery (Tirana, Albania), in frames of the Atelier-Auslandsstipendien des Landes Steiermark program.
2025: L’Internationale Museum of the Commons Summer School (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland); Nirox/the Kromdraai Impact Hub in frames of Exter program by Ukrainian Institute (Republic of South Africa) – link.
2024: «Expanded Writing: Philosophy and Art» course by Fahim Amir in Salzburg Summer Academy, supported by ERSTE Foundation Scholarship (Salzburg, Austria).
2023: Gardening of Soul residency in House of Art (Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic); Kunstnarhuset Messen residency program (Ålvik, Norway); Norwegian Bio Art Arena residency program (Vitenparken, Ås, Norway).
2022: Co-iki Arts Living Space research residency (Tokyo, Japan); «Art Kuzemyn» residency, remote participation, organised by YermilovCenter, supported by Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (Kuzemyn, Kharkiv, Ukraine).
2021: «Polytopia» digital residency by Co-iki Arts Living Space (Tokyo, Japan) – link; Old School Art House residency (Hrisey, Iceland); «Crossing» performance residency by Artsvit gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine) and Verein Paersche (Cologne, Germany) in Dnipro, Ukraine; AADK Spain residency program (Centro Negra, Blanca, Spain); Residencia Corazon (participation supported by Ukrainian Cultural Foundation) (La Plata, Argentina); «Digital Art Therapy Studio» by «V-art» digital art platform (online, Ukraine) – link.
2020: «Two Roots» German-Ukrainian digital residency by Gedankendach Centre (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and Villa Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany) – link; «Crossing» online performance residency by Artsvit gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine) and Verein Paersche (Cologne, Germany) – link; «Woven Network» digital residency by Platform TU (Mariupol, Ukraine), Intercult (Stockholm, Sweden) and Fablevision (Paisley, Scotland) – link;
«Creativity from Home» digital residency by Co-iki Arts Living Space (Tokyo, Japan) – link; American Art Incubator media art online-residency by Isolation Fund (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Zero1 (San-Francisco, USA).
2019:Back Lane West residency (Redruth, United Kingdom) – link; <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art (Graz, Austria); «Exter» AIR program by Ukrainian Institute (Berlin Art Institute, Germany) – link.
2018:«Ex.plain air» (Drohobych, Ukraine); «Fundacja ZPK» (Klementowice, Poland); «Pobratymci» (CK Zamek, Poznan, Poland); «Z.mist» («Platform TU», Mariupol, Ukraine) – link.
Selected group exhibitions:
2026:
– To Make Space in the World (Gallery of Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France) – link;
– De:Humanize (Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norway) – link;
– Out of OSTRALE (Municipal Gallery, Lytomyšl, Czech Republic) – link;
– New Media Art Special Exhibition: The Gap Within the Whole (Gwangju Media Art Platform, Gwangju, South Korea) – link;
– Inszenierung und die Stimme aus dem Off (Steirische Kulturinitiative, Reininghauspark, Graz, Austria) – link.
2025:
– Forum «(Dis)obedient Code: Who Refusal Becomes Form» (Gwangju Media Art Platform, Gwangju, South Korea) – link;
– BestOFF Kunst Uni (Splace, Linz, Austria);
– Kyiv Biennale (Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria) – link;
– «Matter is Messy #1. Embodied Ecologies» (Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria) – link;
– «Short film and digital works from Ukraine» (East Window Gallery, Boulder, CO, USA) – link;
– «Caught on free on the edge of now (Blame the spirit!)» (Splace, Linz, Austria) – link;
– OSTRALE Biennale (Dresden, Germany);
– Pohóda Festival Visual Stage (Trenčín, Slovakia) – link;
– «Women at War» (North Dakota Museum of Art, USA) – link;
– «Words (don’t) come easy» (333gallery, Seoul, South Korea);
– «Undermining the Immediacy» (Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) – link.
2024:
– «Polytopia. Rebirth» (ResArtis Project Space, Melbourne, Australia) – link;
– «Gardening of Soul» (Schafhof Art Forum Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany) – link;
– «Limitless Boundary» (BWA Zielona Góra, Poland) – link;
– «Matter Matters. Ukrainian Textile Art» (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine) – link;
– «Maybe death is not the end?» (Odesa Museum of West & East Art, Odesa, Ukraine);
– «Women at War» (Chicago Cultural Center, USA) – link;
– «Women at War» (University of Manitoba, Canada) – link;
– «Memorialisation. Practices of remembering» (National Museum of History of Ukraine in Second World War, Kyiv, Ukraine).
2023:
– «Gardening of Soul» (House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic) – link;
– «Die Zeit zerfällt oder das Maß an Unordnung» (Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag, Austria) – link;
– «Sterblich Sein / To Be Mortal» (Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria) – link;
– «Gestures of Archiving» (Kunstraum Schwaz, Austria) – link;
– «Załoga. Ukrainian art at the time of war» (CSW Toruń, Poland) – link;
– «Power and Frailty» (East Slovak Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia) – link;
– «Women at War» (Florida State University of Fine Arts, USA) – link;
– «Women at War» (Stanford in Washington, Washington DC, USA) – link;
– «On Violence» (Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary) – link;
– «Osobovy Sklad» (YermilovCenter, Kharkiv, Ukraine);
– «Peremoga» (Bronx River Art Center, New York, USA);
– «Power and Frailty» (Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm, Norway) – link;
– «From the city of iron and concrete» (Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland) – link;
2022:
– «Peremoga» (White Cube gallery, New York, USA);
– «What remains?» (Schaumbad, Graz, Austria);
– «Nothing Where There Should Be Something» (Konnektor Forum für Künste, Hannover, Germany);
– «Śniły mi się bestie» (Gallery Labirynt, Lublin, Poland) – link;
– «Contrapunct» (Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Vienna, Austria) – link;
– Biennale Zielona Góra 2022 (Zielona Góra, Poland) – link;
– Changwon Sculpture Biennale (Changwon, South Korea) – link;
– «Tuesday Secession» in collaboration with Svitlana Zhytnia and Office Ukraine (Vienna Secession, Austria) – link;
– «Women at War» (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA) – link;
– «Women at War» (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA) – link;
– «Women at War» (Fridman Gallery, New York, USA) – link;
– «Stan Wyjątkowy/Emergency State» (State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland) – link;
– «Kunsttasche» (University Culture Center Unikum, Klagenfurt, Austria) – link;
– «Dzisiaj sny pachną żarem» (Pałac Czapskich, Warsaw, Poland) – link;
– «Safe Space» (Dizajn BWA Wroclaw, Poland) – link;
– Series of screenings of Ukrainian video art in collaboration with Videocity (Switzerland, Germany) – link, link;
– Art Ii Biennial (Ii, Finland) – link;
– «Artists in Ukraine: Views from the inside» (The Horse gallery, Dublin, Ireland);
– «Such a spring night» (CentrALT - Centre for Polish Jewish Art and Activism, Krakow, Poland);
– «Vor / Wiosna» art festival (MMF / Slaturhusið cultural center, Egilsstaðir, Iceland) – link;
– «Colored Lenses: Life among Others» virtual exhibition organised by The Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program (CUSP) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta, in partnership with the Karazin Kharkiv National University and YermilovCenter – link;
2021: «No taboo» (Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine).
2020: virtual exhibition «An order we can't recognise yet» (Kharkiv, Ukraine) – link; «I don't feel free to do what I wan't. Part II» (<rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria) – link; «Brüdershaft» project, supported by German Embassy in Ukraine (multiple platforms, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro) – link; «Is the Ritual equal to the Routine?» (Artsvit gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine) – link; «One Hundred Days of Loneliness» (Port Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine); international winter land art festival «Mythogenesis» (Nemyriv, Ukraine).
2019: international winter land art festival «Mythogenesis» (Nemyriv, Ukraine); «Our Skins are Porous Too» (Skelf virtual space, United Kingdom) – link; «Rituals» (The Lit Exhibit gallery, New York, NY, USA); Ukrainian Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, Ukraine); «I don't feel free to do what I wan't. Part I» (Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine).