Olga Dyakina is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Konakovo and Saint-Petersburg. A graduate of international photography schools and courses in contemporary art.
She concentrates on an organic worldview, ecological thinking, and forms of connectedness between the human and the non-human through the poetry of everydayness, practices of slow perception, memory, and sensory experience. Her dominant mediums are photography, collage, text, video, and art objects. Participant of exhibitions in Russia, Greece and America.
Education
2025 Museum of Museums, Venice
2025 Between contemporary art and literature, Ilmira Bolotyan's course at the school "Writing on the roof"
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
2025
"How to Meet People? An instructions to St. Petersburg in 30 Parts," Brusnitsyn Hall | St. Petersburg, Russia
"Eco-anxiety", Krasnokholmskaya gallery | Moscow, Russia
“Creative Solutions to Environmental Problems”, Sborka Ecocenter | Moscow, Russia
Online exhibition “The Experience of Touching. Synchronously”
“The poetry of small things” Exhibition, Library and Cultural Centre “NOTA” | St. Petersburg, Russia
2024
“Samizdal 2.0” Exhibition, Gogol Library | St. Petersburg, Russia
“Persona” Collage Exhibition, PROGRAFIKA | St. Petersburg, Russia
“In Progress”, exhibition as a result of Lab “Proyavochnaya”, Printer Coffee | Kirov, Russia
“Sustainability development” Project, Darwin Museum | Moscow, Russia
2023
Photo Annual Exhibition, Gwinnett County Public Library GCPL | Duluth, Minnesota, USA
“Dressed on the inside” Exhibition, Eight Four Gallery | Novosibirsk, Russia
“Planet B” Exhibition, Sevkabel Port | St. Petersburg, Russia
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
“To the city and the world” Exhibition, Cultural Center “Steamship Office” | Tyumen, Russia
All-Russian exhibition “Young artists” | Orenburg, Russia
“IMPULSUS” Exhibition by Art.coordinate foundation, Youth Center for Contemporary Art | Ulyanovsk, Russia
2021
“Human. Being” Exhibition, Art-gallery “Vorota” | Kaliningrad, Russia
Festivals
2025
Open Nights Festival Vol. 10 | Larissa, Greece
Days of Contemporary Art (DOCA) International Festival | Moscow, Russia
Residences
2023 Sociocultural project "CORNER", Library and Art-Residence “SHKAF” | St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 Art residence "What is a man?", Kaliningrad Union of Photo Artists | online
Publications
2025 Trois Points Magazine
2024 Uncommon Images
2023 F-Stop Magazine
2022 Takie dela
2021 Private
Awards
2025 Award's longlist Social Art Award, project of IFAI | Berlin, Germany
2025 reFocus Awards | Nominee in the Conceptual photography category
2021 College Photographer of the Year CPOY 76, Columbia, Missouri, USA | Interpretive Project Award of Excellence Make yourself at home project
Contemporary art markets
2025 Independent Art and Literature Market "KUCHA", Museum of Museums Venice, Des Esseintes Library | Moscow, Russia
2023 Contemporary Art Market Elephant in the Louvre
Education programs
2025
Interdisciplinary laboratory “Street Diary”, a joint project of the French Institute in Russia and the School of Arts and Creative Industries | St. Petersburg, Russia
“Recycling is Beautiful” Programme, workshops by “Sborka” Ecocentre and “Krasnokholmskaya” Gallery | Moscow
2024
Lab “Proyavochnaya” | online
Samizdat Kafka Writing Lab, a joint project of the Goethe-Institut in Russia and the School of Arts and Creative Industries | 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
Leading a master class on photography as part of the “Location: Lakhta” residency, Primorsky District Libraries | St. Petersburg, Russia