OLGA ANDRIYASH
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
My artistic practice explores the invisible processes of the psyche and their material traces in the body through various media—textiles, glass, ceramics, analog printing, and digital techniques. At the intersection of body-oriented and existential approaches, I study how trauma, crisis, and self-discovery are embodied in the plasticity of identity, shaping the inner landscape of the individual.
My art is an exploration of the plasticity of the human self and a search for evidence of growth even in the most difficult life experiences.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1984 in Vladivostok, she has lived in St. Petersburg since 2008. In 2005, she became interested in photography, which became the foundation of her professional career. Since then, she has regularly participated in annual exhibitions, including two exhibitions at the Erarta Museum. In 2021, she graduated from the Psychology Department of St. Petersburg State University, defending her dissertation on psychotherapy through art. In 2022, she completed a course in phototherapy at the IMATON Institute. From 2022 to 2024, she studied body therapy and practiced as a body psychologist.
In 2024, while completing a one-year program at the Institute of Visual Arts, she felt the need to create meaningful art projects and continued to explore the psychological characteristics of a person and the relationship between the body and psyche in the context of contemporary art as an interdisciplinary artist. Since then, she has been continuously studying contemporary art, completing various educational programs.
In 2025, she became a participant in twenty group contemporary art projects, including Winter Market 1703, Port Art Fair, WIN-WIN, Red Biennale, and the SHKAF residence.
Member of the art group SO.8
EDUCATION
2025 Museum of Museums, Workshop for Artists
2025 Workshop for the Professional and Conceptual Development of Artists. Evgeniya Tut
2025 Continuing Education Program: I Want to Join the Art Environment 2.0. Professional Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art. Maria Hiltunen
2025 Artefacto School. Experimental Abstraction. Evgeniya Voynar
2025 International Lecture Hall of Liberal Arts. Cultural and Art History
2024 Kalachevaschool. Workshop of Contemporary Art. Evgeniya Voynar
2024 Direct Speech. How to Understand Contemporary Art. Nastya Chetverikova
2024 Institute of Visual Arts. MPA. Master of Photographic and Visual Arts. Eduard Kopysov
2024 Body Therapy. Conscious Touch. Svetlana Antipova
2024 Artefacto School. Fundamentals of Abstraction. Evgeniya Voynar
2022. Phototherapy. Using Photography in Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy. Imaton Institute. A. I. Kopytin
2021 Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
August 2026 — Gallery on Kashirka, “The Body Remembers Everything: A Study of the Archetypes of Bodily Memory, ” Moscow
2009 — Glass Gallery Exhibition Center, “An Ordinary Miracle, ” St. Petersburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 — “Cloud Dancer”, White Rainbow Gallery, St. Petersburg
2025 — “Winter Market”, METAMODERNISTY Gallery, St. Petersburg
2025 — “Winter Market”, SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow
2025 — “Grey Wigwam”, SEPTEMAS curatorial association, L. Mantashev Stables, Moscow
2025 — “Sisters”, Respect Art Residence, Novosibirsk
2025 — “Childhood”, SHKAF Library and Art Residence, St. Petersburg
2025 — “Krasnenkaya Biennale”, St. Petersburg
2025 — “Meaning Transfer”, exhibition of the association M.O.Kh, ArtMaison gallery, Moscow
2025 — Between Water and Sky, OKAKNOVO Gallery, Konakovo River Club, Konakovo
2025 — Results, International Lecture Hall of Liberal Arts, online exhibition
2025 — Spring Market, SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow
2025 — Forms of Love, Reka Space, Moscow
2024 — Through Concrete, Dead City, street art exhibition, St. Petersburg
2016 — Exhibition of photographs in the format of animated canvases, Lumiere Hall Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg
2015 — Fashion Wedding VII, Freedom Art Space, St. Petersburg
2015 — Newly Engaged, Vauxhall Center Gallery, Moscow
2013 — “Fashion Wedding VI”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
2012 — “Fashion Wedding V”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
RESIDENCES:
2025 — SHKAF Library and Art Residence, “Dedication to Children’s Books”
2025 — SHKAF Library and Art Residence, “Childhood”, St. Petersburg
2025 — OKAKNOVO Gallery, “Between Water and Sky”, Konakovo
ART FAIRS:
2025 — Winter Market 1703, Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
2025 — Port Art Fair, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
2025 — WIN-WIN X, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
FESTIVALS:
2025 — “Digital Hour, ” digital art festival, Yaroslavl, Moscow
2025 — “NFT.NYC 2025,” The 8th NFT Industry Event, Times Square, New York
2025 — “Forms of Love. Research, ” A-S-H artistic practices festival, Moscow
PUBLICATIONS 2025:
— Art Muse Catalog 2025 #1. Pp. 126-127. Art MUSE magazine
— Catalog of Olga Andriyash’s works at the Port Art Fair, St. Petersburg
— Video report from the “Morning in St. Petersburg” program. Childhood Inside and Out. Exhibition “Childhood” at the SHKAF Library and Art Residence, 00:25
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artistic practice explores invisible mental processes and their material traces in the body through various media—textiles, glass, ceramics, analog printing, and digital techniques. At the intersection of body-oriented and existential approaches, I study how trauma, crisis, and the search for self are embodied in the plasticity of identity, shaping the inner landscape of the individual.
The basis of my method is affective deconstruction and subsequent reconstruction. I explore how the ephemeral—memory, sensation, pain—takes on flesh. First, I deconstruct images of reality to reveal hidden psychological patterns, and then reconstruct them into new forms that become visual metaphors of inner experience.
In the project “The Body Remembers Everything, ” this method manifests itself as working with a bodily archive: through cyanotype X-rays and tactile objects, I visualize the body as a carrier of an unspoken history, where mental trauma takes on a physical, almost petrified form. This is not a metaphor, but an attempt to present the material trace of the invisible. This work with memory imprinted in the flesh is continued in other series.
In “Silent Journey, ” through the optics of a monocle and color inversion, I deconstruct the landscape, turning it into a projection of an internal state. In “Overcoming, ” I work with a distorted figure on glass, capturing the tension between bodily experience and its digital reflection.
And in the series “Circle of Being” and “Which Am I Really?” I explore self-knowledge as the assembly of identity from fragments of external influences and internal decisions.
All these directions lead to the creation of immersive environments (“Meeting with the Inner Child”), where the viewer encounters a space for their own sensory experience. These installations become a field for somatic integration, where the presented themes can be felt on a bodily, and not just on a cognitive level.
I consider art as a potential space where an encounter with one’s own shadow and material traces of the past becomes an act of transformation. My works are an invitation to see in the cracks of identity not a flaw, but evidence of growth, and in the ephemerality of our “I” — its main plastic strength.