Olena
Hrynevych
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| 1988 | Master’s degree equivalent in History and Social Studies, Maxim Gorky Kyiv Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine |
| 1995 | Master’s degree equivalent in English, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine |
| 2024 | Graphic Design Fundamentals, Projector Creative & Tech Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2024 | Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship, Mondragon Team Academy & Travelling U, Spain |
| 2026 | International Curatorial Program, NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany |
Ausstellungen, Veröffentlichungen, Preise
| 2024 | Ages’ Loud Silence, Analogue collage, 15 × 21 cm, cardboard. Explores material memory and architectural stratification. Exhibited at: Dreaming Architectures, Palazzo Carignano, Torino, Italy, 10–31 May 2024. On the Road Edition, Art Space, Municipal Library of Preganziol, Veneto, Italy, 19 Dec 2024 – 24 Jan 2025. This work is held in a museum collection. |
| 2025 | Live Creation — ArtboxExpo Basel 2025, Art Basel Week, Basel, Switzerland Selected by the curatorial jury for live on-site creation; works were created in real time in front of a live audience as part of the Artboxy Live Artist Programme and exhibited throughout Art Basel week NeXus Analogue collage, 50 × 70 cm, mounted on foam board Combines historical fragments and technological traces in a tense spatial composition Court of Misrule Analogue collage, 50 × 70 cm, mounted on foam board Explores inversion of order and destabilization of hierarchical structures |
| 2025 | GOLDEN ∫KIN SERIES (12 works, ongoing). HELD TENSION U = FRAC{1|2} K×^2 Digitally composed artwork with manual enhancements, 50 × 50 cm Hahnemühle Rag Baryta archival print on Dibond XV Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy, Oct 2025 Awarded Fifth Prize in Digital Art Series explores digital abstraction and mathematical notation as visual language systems. |
| 2025-2026 | POWER STRATEGY SERIES (12 works, ongoing) 2025–2026 Phronesis Digitally composed artwork with manual enhancements Produced as a 10 × 10 inch Hahnemühle Photo Rag Giclée print within Social Justice project curated by Amy Jackson Included in the Exquisite Corpse installation — a grid of 60 artists addressing themes of social justice. Each work stands independently while contributing to a collective visual structure Exhibited at: Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week 2025, USA, 3–7 Dec 2025 Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, Italy, Aug–Sep 2026 (independent presentation during the Venice Biennale period) Presented on Artsy with the support of SHIM Art Network |
| 2025-2026 | PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA COVERAGE |
| 2025 | Arts to Hearts Project: Artists to Watch 001 |
| 2025 | 101 ArtBook: Nature Edition, Charuka Arora Studio |
| 2025 | 101 ArtBook: Portrait Edition, Charuka Arora Studio |
| 2025 | XV Florence Biennale. Official Catalogue, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori |
| 2026 | 101 ArtBook: Food Edition, Charuka Arora Studio |
| 2023-2025 | ONLINE AND MEDIA COVERAGE |
| 2023 | Socportal (Ukraine) — “CUTOUT COLLAGE ART FESTIVAL”, Kyiv, Mar |
| 2024 | TERAVARNA Gallery (USA) — Video interview: “This Artist Finds Inner Peace in Her Analogue Collages”, Oct |
| 2025 | Socportal (Ukraine) — “Art Basel 2025: The Return of Tapestries and Bas-Reliefs in Contemporary Art”, Basel, Jun |
| 2025 | Socportal (Ukraine) — “XV Florence Biennale 2025: Light and Darkness in Art — Award to a Ukrainian Artist”, Florence, Oct |
| 2025 | MyUkraineIs.org — “‘Light & Darkness’ at the XV Florence Biennale: Tim Burton, Patricia Urquiola — and an Award for a Ukrainian Artist”, Nov |
| 2025 | TELEVISION AND INSTITUTIONAL MEDIA MENTIONS |
| 2025 | RAI Italia — Casa Italia — coverage of XV Florence Biennale 2025; Golden ∫KIN series featured in the segment “Essence of Light and Darkness”, 18–26 Oct 2025 |
| 2025-2026 | RESIDENCES |
| 2025 Oct | Pollinator — virtual professional residency; international online program focused on peer learning, exchange, and development of artistic practice |
Practice overview
Analogue collage and mixed media 
2022 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
NeXus
Analog collage on foam board 
50x70 cm 
Video Live Collage Performance at Artboxy Expo Basel 2025. NeXus traces the convergence of corporeal presence, tactile matter, and sensory charge. The composition unfolds in a state of controlled excess, where contrasting fragments do not simply collide but form transient alignments. Color accents act as pulses — not decorative, but structural — organizing rhythm and tension within the visual field. © Olena Hrynevych
Court of Misrule
Analog collage on foam board 
50x70 cm Video Live Collage Performance at Artboxy Expo Basel 2025. Court of Misrule explores a state of shifted order, where familiar structures and hierarchies are reinterpreted. The composition features symbolic imagery, with chance playing a vital role in shaping meanings and connections. The central motif evokes a whimsical world inspired by Alice’s Adventures, where the familiar unfolds into new meanings. © Olena Hrynevych
Held tension U = FRAC{1}{2} K X^2
Digital composition with manual intervention 50x50 cm Video Fifth Prize in the Digital Art section at the XV Florence Biennale (Italy, October 18–26, 2025) © Olena Hrynevych
Resonant you Y(T) = A SIN(OMEGA T + VARPHI)
Digital composition with manual intervention 
50x50 cm Video 
2025 © Olena Hrynevych
PHRONESIS (Φρόνησις / Phronesis)
Digital composition with manual intervention 60x60 cm This work is a part of the Power Strategy series. The interlaced hands of the chess player form a vertical axis of concentration, establishing a rhythm of control and strategic attention. The figures on the board construct a field of hierarchies in which each action acquires the weight of a decision. Phronesis—Aristotle’s concept of practical wisdom—is articulated as the capacity to align individual choice with structural demands and the distribution of responsibility. The work examines strategic planning as a form of ethical action arising in the tension between personal agency and collective order. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
KRATOS (Κράτος / Krátos)
Digital composition with manual intervention 60x60 cm In KRATOS, the Power Strategy series investigates power as a structural force operating through necessity, discipline, and the maintenance of position. Bodily fragments—hands, shoulders, taut lines of the torso—are assembled into a dense vertical configuration, forming an axis of institutional control. The chess grid functions as an operational structure, defining a field of role distribution and permissible movement. The repetition of figures fixes the stability of hierarchies in which strategy is realised not through expression, but through compliance with and retention of form. Krátos denotes power as the capacity to sustain order within a given structure. In this work, it appears as an embodied and internalised form of power—restrained, calculated, and devoid of spectacle—yet decisive in the distribution of symbolic capital and the outcomes of interaction within intellectual and institutional fields. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
ARCHÉ (Ἀρχή / Arché)
Digital composition with manual intervention 90x60 cm Part of the Power Strategy series, examining forms of symbolic capital, strategic behaviour, and visual coordination within an institutional field where positions, recognition, and agency are distributed. Fragmented bodily elements—lines of shoulders, profiles, gestures—form a vertical composition in which each element sustains the movement of the structure and its stability. The chess grid introduces an analytical logic and fixes the strategic mechanisms of interaction. Arché—the first principle and originating order—functions here as a visual model of collective action and the structural organisation of the field. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
BOULĒ (Βουλή)
Digital composition with manual intervention 60x90 cm This work is a part of the Power Strategy series. This sequence forms a spatial model of strategic thinking — from the potential for action to collective decision-making. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: Social Practices (after UNESCO Convention, 2003)
Digital composition with manual intervention 60x60 cm This work is a part of the Acta Juris Series. Social practices and rituals as intangible heritage. Half of a male torso, also clothed in handwoven fabric, refers to the legal concept of “social practices and rituals.” The garment becomes a sign of communal belonging, and its visual fixation — an act of preservation and legal codification. The absence of head and face intensifies the effect of anonymity: the individual is dissolved within a collective legal definition. The artistic image transforms the body into a legal document — a “carrier of intangible heritage” where tradition and modernity enter into a tense dialogue. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: Craftsmanship (after UNESCO Convention, 2003)
Digital composition with manual intervention 60x60 cm This work is a part of the Acta Juris Series. Traditional craftsmanship as intangible heritage. Half of a female torso, clothed in handwoven fabric, registers the presence of craft tradition in its bodily and visual carrier. The folds of the fabric, its rough weave, and visual texture become a metaphor for the legal category of “traditional craftsmanship,” recognized and protected under international law. The removal of the head and arms reinforces a sense of documentary reduction: the woman’s subjectivity is fixed only through the material trace of cultural practice. 2025 © Olena Hrynevych
Olena Hrynevych’s practice defines the image as a unified act of artistic research and curatorial gesture, in which form functions as an instrument for the production of knowledge.