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” International Academy of Documentary and Art Photography.
In her practice, she makes sense of problems of the separation of man and nature, issues of overconsumption, the poetry of everyday life, peculiarities of attention and memory, relationship with space and non-human agents in the urban environment. Works with photography, collage, text, video documentation, and art objects. Since 2017, she has lived in St. Petersburg.
Education
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
"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 and NoDoubt Gallery | 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
2024
2023
Awards
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
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