ARTIST PROFILE

Olga Krykun

  • Ukraine (b. 1994 in Odesa)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Olga Krykun works predominantly within the media of video installation, sculpture, and painting. Combining elements of storytelling with contemporary symbols, she creates the mischievous mythology of today.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • The Garden of my hopes, online.

2020

  • Four Trap Doors, Šachta, Prague, Czech Republic.

2019

  • Dont Panic!, Galerie UM, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • EnjoyeTV, Gallery Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018

2017

  • 720/027, NOD, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • I've painted the gate red, now I think red was the wrong colour with Adrian Altman and Jakub Hajek, korpus., Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Freesome, Berlinskej model, Prague, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • Vyšeart, Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Body Movement as a Space-Time (Dis)continuity, GAMU, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Reality do you need me?, 4+4 Four days, Prague.
  • Beauty Bomb, ISSMAG, Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • Apostasia: Rituals of Letting Go, Garage Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • This Mess We’re In, Svetova 1, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • NO ONE SURVIVES THESE EDGES, Galerie FAMU, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • BLACK BEEMER > WHITE BOOMER, GAMPA, Pardubice, Czech Republic.

2020

  • Soloshow: CHAPTER 2, soloshow.online.
  • DWELLING, Šopa gallery, Košice, Slovakia.

2019

  • Sinkhole project, Pankow cemetery, Berlin, Germany.
  • NEVŠECHNO/NOTEVERYTHING, Des Fours Palace, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Videokemp, Convent of Saint Agnes, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • The Shadow of Dream* cast upon Giardini della Biennale, Ukrainian pavilion, Venice, Italy.
  • Comunite pasta fresca, Kulturni a remeslny prostor Znak, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • a river, a tool, an instep like a half-open book, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018

  • TB 2 RL, +DEDE, Berlin, Germany.
  • Quiet Chamber, Noisy Heart, Holesovicka sachta, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Come dine with Adrian Altman, Tv Prima, Berlinskej model, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • KURS, Atelierhaus Klingental, Raum 103, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Fake Me - Break the Simulation - Be Awesome, galerie amu, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Temporary Arts TV, Bistro 8, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Unleashing Screensaver, International Virtual Exhibition, Worldwide, New York, United States.
  • Supernova, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Supermedia, Museum of Photography and Modern Visual Media, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic.
  • AiC Stefle, Galerie bratri Spillaru, Domazlice, Czech Republic.
  • Nevim, jak tohle dopadne, Galerie Sam83, Ceska Briza, Czech Republic.
  • Young Art, Atelier Grid, Prague, Czech Republic.

2015

  • 'Don't. Just... don't.', Papirna, Plzen, Czech Republic.

2014

  • Intermedia OPEN STUDIO, galerie Ve stredu, Plzen, Czech Republic.

PROGRAMS

2021

  • Walk with me, Presentation, Divadlo Alfred ve Dvore, online. 
, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Springs.video, It is my country even though I do not belong here, Presentation, online
.

2020

  • SlowTV, Presentation, Divadlo X10, online, Prague, Czech Republic.

2017

  • Fx00136302, Performance, Holesovicka trznice, Hala 22, Prague, Czech Republic. With Max Lysacek.

2015

  • Ok, Social Media Project, @all.ok.arround.the.world, International, Czech Republic.
    Instagram and Facebook mirror project

LOCATION

  • Born 1994 in Odesa, Ukraine.
  • Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

  • 2019 - 2020
    National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    MFA in Fine Arts
  • 2019 - 2019
    Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
    MFA in Fine Arts
  • 2018 - 2021
    Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    MFA in Painting (Jiri Cernicky and Michal Novotny)
  • 2018 - 2018
    The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    BCA in Temporary Arts (Jakub Jansa)
  • 2016 - 2018
    Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    BCA in Supermedia (David Korinek and Milan Mikulastik)
  • 2016 - 2016
    T.E.I. of Athens, Athens, Greece
    BCA in Photography
  • 2014 - 2016
    The Ladislav Sutnar's Faculty of Design and Art, Pilsen, Czech Republic
    BCA in Intermedia (Milena Dopitova)

RESIDENCIES

  • 2015
    AiC Stefle, Artists in Cottage, Czech Republic