UKRAINIAN ARTIST OLESIA SAIENKO SELECTED FOR THE AiR IN REGENSBURG.
Coordination team from CreArt partner, Regensburg, is pleased to announce the artist selected among the candidates received: Olesia Saienko, artist from Ukraine.
Olesia Saienko is a photographer and a visual storyteller from Ukraine. Holder of a Master's degree in Psychology. Started to work as a photojournalist and freelancer in 2017. Olesia is engaged in documentary and conceptual photography and maintains a documentary photo diary. Her practice is centered around fiction, documentary, and post-truth, which is a logical continuation of her journalistic job.
By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, she reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory.
An archivist and a trickster in one person. Member of Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization and MYPH community.
Her photos have been published in PHROOM, Reporters.media, F-Stop magazine, Kiosk of democracy, Liberation, GUP
Magazine. Participant of exhibitions in Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden.
Represented by Asortymentna Kimnata.
AWARDS:
2023 - Fresh Eyes Talent 2023 by GUP magazine (nominated) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
GRANTS:
2022 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
RESIDENCY:
2023 - Residency at Hata-Maisterna "When was the story interrupted?" (Babyn, Ukraine)
2022 - Residency "otte1" (Eckernförde, Germany)
2019 - Workshop "Our Future" by FROH! (Severodonetsk, Lutsk, Ukraine)
https://www.instagram.com/olesia_saienko/?hl=es
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