Olha Fedorova (UA)
Born in 1994 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. A multidisciplinary conceptual artist who mostly works with text- and textile-based practices, but also with performance, photography and video. In 2016, she graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts, and started her career on the same year. After Russia launched a full-scale invasion to Ukraine in 2022, she also began to work as an art activist, publicist and journalist to promote Ukrainian culture internationally and to raise awareness about the war among the foreign audiences. Since the summer of 2022 Fedorova lives and continues her practice in Graz, Austria. In 2024 she began her studies at an MA program by the «Textile.art.design» department of the Art University Linz, Austria.
Fedorova has had solo exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Austria and Italy. Participated in art residencies, group exhibitions and projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, Argentina, Japan, Republic of Korea, Republic of South Africa, the USA and many more. 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 private collections in Ukraine, Germany and Norway.
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).