Olha Kalika

Olha Kalika is a painter working in the field of Contemporary Figurative Painting. She holds a degree from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Her practice focuses on the emotional presence of the human form and the internal states it can carry.

Through painting, she explores internal states as a way of sublimation and self-discovery. Each work becomes a quiet meeting with herself, a way to transform feeling into form, sensation into image. Her practice reflects the emotional complexity of highly sensitive experience: its layered sensitivity, nuance, and inner texture. She is interested in how emotion can live inside the body how it shifts posture, softens edges, or alters the air around a figure.

Her works are intimate, intuitive, and contemplative, inviting the viewer not to decode, but to feel. They do not explain emotion. They embody it.

Lviv National Academy of Arts 2015 - 2019

2025 - Chronicles of Intimacy Exhibition by K:art Studio in Pie Factory Margate Gallery, Margate, UK 2025.
2018 - Exhibition The Limits of Freedom, Lviv, Ukraine.
2017 - Exhibition Franko Labaratorium in Ivan Franko Memorial Museum of Art, Lviv, Ukraine.