Olga Stein

Kyiv, Ukraine

Olga Stein (Kalynovska-Kravchuk) (b. 1997) is a Ukrainian artist who graduated from the Lviv Academy of Arts in 2018 and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv with a degree in restoration in 2020. 2015 — 2018 practiced at the Bandinelli Palace Museum and worked as a restorer in temples. 2020 Graduated with a master’s degree from the Kyiv Academy of Arts, Department of Restoration.
2019 Internship at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Since 2019, she has been founding and curating the artist-run space thesteinstudio and related information projects. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Olga has participated in many international residencies (including also CARV residency) and exhibitions, focusing her practice on working on sculptures, zines and work with the latest materials. The key projects of recent years were solo shows in Paris in May 2022 , London in October 2023, and in Odessa National Fine Arts Museum may 2024, 91einundneunzig galerie Frankfurt am Main German 2024

Since 2024, Olga has been a co-founder and co-editor of the platform that supports the emergence of critical texts about contemporary Ukrainian art “By text”.

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Ins, 2024

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Pelican feeding children with blood, 2024

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CARV_25… Coming soon

5.01.2025 – 31.01.2025

THE MYTH OF THE BODY THAT PROCESSED HOPE AND GOD PROJECT

Olga Stein

1/09/2024 – 30/11/2024

Presenting new online solo show by Olga Stein "THE MYTH OF THE BODY THAT PROCESSED HOPE AND GOD PROJECT" created in CARV_24, based on Olga's reflections on a comparison of the pearl's creation in a shell and the Body that…
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WHAT LASTS LONGER THAN HOPE?

Anna Zvyagintseva, Bohdan Bunchak, Olga Stein, Inga Levi

26/04/2024 – 3/05/2024

VELYCHKO.GALLERY represents the unit of the well known Ukrainian artists Anna Zvyagintseva, Bohdan Bunchak, Olga Stein, Inga Levi, and the curator Halyna Hleba. Group exhibition "What lasts longer than Hope?" is based on the 2 months of collective discussions about…
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Way of BREAD Series

Olha Stein

1/01/2024 – 25/01/2024

Solo-project online exhibition "Bread" by Olga Stein is an ongoing project that explores the complex relationship between food security, historical trauma, and cultural memory in Ukraine through diverse and unexpected artistic mediums. Was realised first for the group exhibition and…
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Transformative Identities

Jérôme Dupré la Tour, Stella Kapezanou, Olga Stein, Michalis Papamichael

23/06/2023 – 1/09/2023

Proudly present you the exhibition by VELYCHKO.GALLERY named "Transformative Identities" in Limassol and Paphos. The two shows attracted a significant number of attendees, with approximately 600 visitors during first weeks and garnered considerable attention on the thought-provoking artworks on display…
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I Solar System

Olha Stein

1/12/2022 – 01/02/2023

This exhibition presents sketches from Olga Stein's art project created together with VELYCHKO.GALLERY, in CARV residency during full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Release Exhibition "I Solar System" consists of 1 collage and 12 sketches focusing on artist's feelings…
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