Olga
Kirienko

1981 Born in the USSR from a Russian mother and a Ukrainian father.

1998 - 2004 Got degrees in International Relations and Economy.

2002 - 2014 Built international corporate career in product innovations and marketing.       

2014 Gave birth to a daughter and gave up the corporate career.

2017-2018 Studied fine art in Surikov Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow.

2017 Took part in “Unity in variety’ show in 508 Kings Road Gallery in London.

2019 For political reasons had to move from Russia  to Spain.   

2021 - 2022 Studied weaving in Casa Aymat in Sant Cugat del Valles.    

2022 Published a letter to Putin and got under Russian police investigation.

2023 Weaved ‘Eva and Adam’ diptych in my workshop in Sant Cugat del Valles.

I have come to art only in my 30s, already loaded with a heavy luggage of academic degrees, corporate career, immigration, war, and political exile. I just couldn’t find any other way to communicate with the world but creating visual objects then. I speak many visual languages:  painting, graphics, 3D objects, and weaving. Like primitive artists, I connect my experience of a modern global nomad with the materials and techniques I come across. It makes my art raw, full of textures, sometimes even rough, but representing my lyric character and its symbolic narrative, aiming to praise life, love, and nature.