Olga Vin

Her MA thesis was the culmination of a year and a half of performative painting with blood, an experience that profoundly transformed her understanding of art.

Olg Vin/ Dr Olga Winiarczyk is an intermedia artist and researcher with several years of experience running Body Art studio at art university. In 2024, she defended her doctoral thesis proving the existence of nomadism in contemporary art, earning the title of Doctor of Arts. She graduated with distinction under the renowned painter of Polish-Belarusian origin, Prof. Leon Tarasewicz, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Her artistic portfolio includes presentations of painting, video, and performance in over 40 group and solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries and institutions in Poland and abroad (including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Kyiv Art Week, and exhibitions in Budapest, Venice, New York, and the Canary Islands). She has completed artist residencies and maintains ongoing collaborations with theaters and activist communities. She is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including the Honorary Distinction at the 5th Piotrków Art Biennale (2019), 1st prize in the Mazda Desi...

PhD
Faculty of Art, UKEN, Krakow

Master degree
studio of prof. Leon Tarasewicz
Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Bachelor degree
studio of prof. Paweł Susid
Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
+ Nomadism, Pobrzezie Gallery, Kraków, ('24)
+ Demakeup, Women’s Cinema Festival, Labirynt Gallery (’22)
+ Motherland, Terminal Gallery, Gorzów Wielkopolski (’20)
+ Tower Gallery, Painting and Photography, Warsaw (’14)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
+ Rozkosz Festiwal, Poznań, (’23)
+ QUEERZ GET LOUD festival vol. II, Labirynt Gallery, (’21)
+ KRAKERS, „Amber and Sperm Whales”, Museum of Pharmacy (’20)
+ „29th OPMM Promotions 2019”, Legnica (’19)
+ V Piotrkowskie Biennale of Art, honorable mention (’19)
+ No Budget Show 11, Kazimierz Dolny (’19)
+ „Figuration Now”, MOS in Gorzów Wielkopolski (’19)
+ „International Intermedia Art Works ICIA” in Krakow (’19)
+ „Disgust held me back from this history”, Baraka Theater, Krakow, (’19)
+ „Memory of the sea”, Wieliczka Salt Mine Museum, (’19)
+ „Cosmos”, Fosfor Gallery, Krakow, (’19)
+ „The fox walks around”, Krakow Gallery Weekend, Fosfor Gallery, Krakow (’19)
+ „6 orbits”, doctoral students exhibition in the Cieszyńska 8 studio, Krakow, (’19)
+ „When the goat didn’t jump / error”, Fosfor Gallery, Krakow, (’19)
+ Limousine Video Art Festival, ALCHEMIC CITIES, New York, USA, (’18)
+ Surface Festival, Palazzo Ca ‚Znardi, Venice, Italy, (’18)
+ „Very ugly exhibition”, Sektor 1 Gallery...