OLYA AVSTREYH

The artist researches the thin line between the real and the fake in her practice while fixating the gap between life perception from the outside and from within. Her goal is to grasp the evasive and ghostly forms and to feel the inner emptiness that we know all too well how to hide. Olya highlights that in the modern world one feels more awkward than natural and she studies the difficulties of the modern socio-cultural landscape and the feeling of isolation we often find ourselves in. According to the artist herself, her works balance between full loneliness and a neurotic fiesta.

Olya graduated MSU Faculty of Foreign Languages (2010), the Westminster University (London) Faculty of Media Management and HSE School of Design's Contemporary Painting program with Vladimir Dubosarsky's supervision (2021). She also attended Ivan Gorshkov's workshop To find and to better.
Lives and works in Margate, UK.

Personal exhibitions:
2024 Odd Winds, Serene Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2023 Confusions, szena, Moscow
2023 When We Poke It, the Blood Runs and We Find Ourselves in a Belly, Gathering х Voskhod Gallery, Basel
2022 Kissing Inferno, szena x Cosmoscow, Moscow
2022 Lights out, Lobby, Moscow

Selected group projects:
2024 Hide In My Room, Serene Gallery, Moscow
2023 «Called by Vasari. Manierisme», NCCA Nizhny Novgorod — Arsenal, Nizhniy Novgorod
2022 «Light feathering», Seréne Gallery, Moscow
2022 «Monsters under the bed», MAXart foundation х Third place, Saint-Petersburg

Residencies:
2025-2026 The Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR)

Online projects:
2020 Videochat: send nudes, HSE Online Gallery