Olga Dyakina is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She was born in 1990 in Konakovo, in the Tver region. In 2014, she graduated from the Institute of Journalism and Literary Creation in Moscow. A graduate of the “Docdocdoc” School of Contemporary Photography and the “Fotografika” Academy of Documentary and Art Photography.

In personal projects, she addresses themes of the human psyche and sensory experience, memory, and the relationship between humans with nature and urban space. She works with photography, text, art objects, and digital collages. Since 2017, she has lived in St. Petersburg.

The artist's works are in the Library and Art Residency “SHKAF”, Gogol Library and in private collections.

 

 

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Education

— 2023-2024 Poetry course: how to write poetry and perform. Evgeniya Korobkova, Dmitry Vedenyapin, Boris Pavlovich; grant program finalist | Creative Writing School

— 2021-2022 Academy of documentary and art photography “Fotografika”, grant program finalist | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2019-2020 The school of modern photography “Docdocdoc” | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2008-2014 Institute of journalism and literary creation | Moscow, Russia

 

Selected group exhibitions

— 2024 “Samizdal 2.0” Exhibition, Gogol Library | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2024 “Persona” Collage Exhibition, PROGRAFIKA | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2024 Sustainability Project, Darwin Museum and NoDoubt Gallery | Moscow, Russia

— 2024 “Echoes of Family Relations 2024”, KC Dorćol | Belgrade, Serbia

— 2023 Photo Annual Exhibition, Gwinnett County Public Library GCPL | Duluth, Minnesota, USA

— 2023 “Dressed on the inside” Exhibition, Eight Four Gallery | Novosibirsk, Russia

— 2023 “Planet B” Exhibition, Sevkabel Port | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2023 F-Stop Magazine online exhibition

— 2023 Site-specific exhibition “Corner”, Library and Art-Residence “SHKAF” | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2022 “Okay, I'll think about it” Exhibition, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center | Moscow, Russia

— 2022 “To the city and the world” Exhibition, Cultural Center “Steamship Office” | Tyumen, Russia

— 2022 All-Russian exhibition “Young artists” | Orenburg, Russia

— 2022 “IMPULSUS” Exhibition by Art.coordinate foundation, Youth Center for Contemporary Art | Ulyanovsk, Russia

— 2021 “Human. Being” Exhibition, Art-gallery “Vorota” | Kaliningrad, Russia

 

Publications

— 2024 Uncommon Images

— 2024 Superpresent Magazine

— 2022 Takie Dela Eight Somnambulists project

— 2021 Seasons of life № 61 (print magazine, Autumn, 2021)

— 2021 Private

— 2021 Republic 

 

Awards

— 2021 College Photographer of the Year CPOY 76, Columbia, Missouri, USA | Interpretive Project Award of Excellence Make yourself at home project

 

Contemporary art markets

— 2023 Contemporary Art Market Elephant in the Louvre

 

Education programs

— 2024 Lab “Proyavochnaya” with the final one-day exhibition “In Progress”, Printer Coffee | Kirov, Russia

— 2024 Samizdat Kafka Writing Lab, a joint project of the Goethe-Institut in Russia and the School of Arts and Creative Industries | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2023 Art forum “Base”, Library and Art-Residence “SHKAF” | St. Petersburg, Russia

 

Other

— 2024 Tutor in the photo lab at the cultural space “Transit Zone” | Zelenogorsk, Leningrad Region, Russia

— 2023 Jury member of the festival of site-specific art in libraries “No Place” | St. Petersburg, Russia

— 2023 Leading a master class on photography as part of the “Location: Lakhta” residency, Primorsky District Libraries | St. Petersburg, Russia