Library of visual phenomena
2020–ongoing, Kyiv–Berlin.
Founded by: Olia Gaidash, Eugene Shimalsky, Tasia Spiel. A growing archive of non-mainstream printed materials, rare editions, handmade books, notebooks, and other artefacts. Established in 2020, the collection continues to expand. Copies are freely available for non-commercial use. An interview about the project: Library of Visual Phenomena: Collecting the Unpredictable
2020–ongoing, Kyiv–Berlin.
Founded by: Olia Gaidash, Eugene Shimalsky, Tasia Spiel. A growing archive of non-mainstream printed materials, rare editions, handmade books, notebooks, and other artefacts. Established in 2020, the collection continues to expand. Copies are freely available for non-commercial use. An interview about the project: Library of Visual Phenomena: Collecting the Unpredictable
Phantom Museum
2024, Warsaw.
Installation. Artistic team: Olia Gaidash, Daša Anosova, Ivan Bazak, Violette A. Centralna Architekt. Curators: Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, Tomasz Fudala, Natalia Sielewicz. "Tough Love. The Museum Between the Palace and the Square. Warsaw Under Construction 16," MSN Warsaw. Photo: Daša Anosova, Centralna Architekt. A piece of collective fiction inspired by museum lootings in southern Ukraine. Displays "conceptual copies" rather than replicas. Most copies were made by theatrical prop makers and scenographers, who had never seen the originals, based solely on stories told via low-connection video calls, creating a scenography sculpted from memory.
2024, Warsaw.
Installation. Artistic team: Olia Gaidash, Daša Anosova, Ivan Bazak, Violette A. Centralna Architekt. Curators: Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, Tomasz Fudala, Natalia Sielewicz. "Tough Love. The Museum Between the Palace and the Square. Warsaw Under Construction 16," MSN Warsaw. Photo: Daša Anosova, Centralna Architekt. A piece of collective fiction inspired by museum lootings in southern Ukraine. Displays "conceptual copies" rather than replicas. Most copies were made by theatrical prop makers and scenographers, who had never seen the originals, based solely on stories told via low-connection video calls, creating a scenography sculpted from memory.
Seasonal work
2024–ongoing, Berlin / Kyiv / Zurich
Publication. Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova, Jana Liebe, Lisa Biletska. Supported by Documenting Ukraine, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
A poetic collection based on interviews with Ukrainian women who knit for people serving in the military. Invisible, daily, predominantly women's work, collected, transformed into poetry, and released as a book.
2024–ongoing, Berlin / Kyiv / Zurich
Publication. Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova, Jana Liebe, Lisa Biletska. Supported by Documenting Ukraine, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
A poetic collection based on interviews with Ukrainian women who knit for people serving in the military. Invisible, daily, predominantly women's work, collected, transformed into poetry, and released as a book.
An abridged catalog of museum objects
2022–2023, Berlin.
Video, 8:22 min. Olia Gaidash with Olha Marusyn. Curator: Barbara Visser. Exhibited at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam and the National Museum in Krakow, 2025. Curator (2025): Andrij Bojarov. An attempt to recall what no longer exists. Through conversations with Olha Marusyn, a dance interpretation of objects she had never seen. Filmed far from the originals in Berlin, 2023.
2022–2023, Berlin.
Video, 8:22 min. Olia Gaidash with Olha Marusyn. Curator: Barbara Visser. Exhibited at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam and the National Museum in Krakow, 2025. Curator (2025): Andrij Bojarov. An attempt to recall what no longer exists. Through conversations with Olha Marusyn, a dance interpretation of objects she had never seen. Filmed far from the originals in Berlin, 2023.
The Herculine
2020, Kyiv
Jewellery line. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. Part of a utilitarian series related to household chores and labour, consisting of various attributes and armour of a housewife. Herculine is an asteroid named after Hercules, but in the feminine form; its shape resembles a white soap remnant. All jewellery is made from found objects: antique beads, Scythian gold and silver, fragments of ancient jewellery, connected by silver and gold constructions. The soap beads are hard to distinguish from stones or frosted glass. They are designed to wash away over time, gradually altering the piece's appearance.
2020, Kyiv
Jewellery line. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. Part of a utilitarian series related to household chores and labour, consisting of various attributes and armour of a housewife. Herculine is an asteroid named after Hercules, but in the feminine form; its shape resembles a white soap remnant. All jewellery is made from found objects: antique beads, Scythian gold and silver, fragments of ancient jewellery, connected by silver and gold constructions. The soap beads are hard to distinguish from stones or frosted glass. They are designed to wash away over time, gradually altering the piece's appearance.
Waiting Spaces
2024, Amsterdam.
Installation. Curators: Barbara Visser and Bart Hansel. Packing cases produced by Kortmann Company Amsterdam, based on dimensions and descriptions of objects stolen from Ukrainian museums. Employees never saw the actual artefacts or images. The work presents counter-forms of the missing objects, empty spaces of anticipation.
2024, Amsterdam.
Installation. Curators: Barbara Visser and Bart Hansel. Packing cases produced by Kortmann Company Amsterdam, based on dimensions and descriptions of objects stolen from Ukrainian museums. Employees never saw the actual artefacts or images. The work presents counter-forms of the missing objects, empty spaces of anticipation.
Trojanda
2020, Kyiv.
Exhibition. Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. For our inaugural project, we aimed to shift the perspective on our personal belongings. Each item in the exhibition prompts reflection on household objects that have lost their practicality. Once removed from their utilitarian context and placed in a gallery or museum setting, these objects exist without obligation. Beneath glass lie kitchen utensils and the "armor" of the housewife, crafted during contemplation of domestic duties. They serve as expressions of self rather than practical tools. Most pieces are collages of found, purchased, and lovingly altered objects. We're intrigued by the concept of recycling in its broadest sense, from the initial inspiration for creating an object to the finished products like the tables and stools, displayed in the same form as when builders first fashioned them on the construction site.
2020, Kyiv.
Exhibition. Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. For our inaugural project, we aimed to shift the perspective on our personal belongings. Each item in the exhibition prompts reflection on household objects that have lost their practicality. Once removed from their utilitarian context and placed in a gallery or museum setting, these objects exist without obligation. Beneath glass lie kitchen utensils and the "armor" of the housewife, crafted during contemplation of domestic duties. They serve as expressions of self rather than practical tools. Most pieces are collages of found, purchased, and lovingly altered objects. We're intrigued by the concept of recycling in its broadest sense, from the initial inspiration for creating an object to the finished products like the tables and stools, displayed in the same form as when builders first fashioned them on the construction site.
Brüderschaft
2020, Kyiv.
Installation/Happening. Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. Support: Goethe-Institut Kyiv. The festival was held in public spaces rather than galleries, with art displayed on advertising surfaces like city lights and other commercial billboards. In protest against the new online reality, we created a folding table that attaches to a city light like a parasite. It is a place for lectures, conversations, dates, or spontaneous meetings outdoors during the challenging COVID times.
2020, Kyiv.
Installation/Happening. Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. Support: Goethe-Institut Kyiv. The festival was held in public spaces rather than galleries, with art displayed on advertising surfaces like city lights and other commercial billboards. In protest against the new online reality, we created a folding table that attaches to a city light like a parasite. It is a place for lectures, conversations, dates, or spontaneous meetings outdoors during the challenging COVID times.
Trojanda postcards
2019, Kyiv.
Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova and Misha Buksha. We curated photos from OLX ads: flocks of wall-mounted ducks, egg trays stacked like the Empire State Building. A series of ready-made photographs turned into postcards, mailed via Ukrposhta as New Year's greetings to friends and anyone who requested them. A custom postage stamp was created for this project.
2019, Kyiv.
Trojanda duo: Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova and Misha Buksha. We curated photos from OLX ads: flocks of wall-mounted ducks, egg trays stacked like the Empire State Building. A series of ready-made photographs turned into postcards, mailed via Ukrposhta as New Year's greetings to friends and anyone who requested them. A custom postage stamp was created for this project.
Produkty
2019, Kyiv.
Solo exhibition. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. A series of paintings and sculptures about the artist's handwriting in different media, the scaling of ideas, and also about the true purpose of things. And ultimately, about the purpose of art objects as such.
2019, Kyiv.
Solo exhibition. The Naked Room Gallery. Curators: Lisa German, Masha Lanko. A series of paintings and sculptures about the artist's handwriting in different media, the scaling of ideas, and also about the true purpose of things. And ultimately, about the purpose of art objects as such.
It is allowed for me
2021, Kyiv.
Kyiv Khanenko Museum. Curators: Trojanda duo (Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova). Collective: Ateliernormalno (artists with and without Down syndrome). Participants: Ryba Werner, Yevhen Holubentsev, Oleksandr Steshenko, Valentyn Radchenko, Anja Riabova, Katia Libkind, Anna Litvinova, Anna Sapon, Valeria Tarasenko, Timur Tkachenko, Stanislav Turina, Tasia Spiel, Helena Maksyom and Adrian Pirvu, Kateryna Hotsalo, Hanna Rudyk, Olha Nosko. Conceptual copies of museum exhibits were created and displayed in the courtyard. The artists worked collectively, culminating in a replica of the museum outside the museum.
2021, Kyiv.
Kyiv Khanenko Museum. Curators: Trojanda duo (Olia Gaidash, Anja Riabova). Collective: Ateliernormalno (artists with and without Down syndrome). Participants: Ryba Werner, Yevhen Holubentsev, Oleksandr Steshenko, Valentyn Radchenko, Anja Riabova, Katia Libkind, Anna Litvinova, Anna Sapon, Valeria Tarasenko, Timur Tkachenko, Stanislav Turina, Tasia Spiel, Helena Maksyom and Adrian Pirvu, Kateryna Hotsalo, Hanna Rudyk, Olha Nosko. Conceptual copies of museum exhibits were created and displayed in the courtyard. The artists worked collectively, culminating in a replica of the museum outside the museum.
My husband explains my drawings
2019, Kyiv.
A series of notes and drawings. A series of notes and drawings supplemented by text explanations from Eugene Shimalsky.
2019, Kyiv.
A series of notes and drawings. A series of notes and drawings supplemented by text explanations from Eugene Shimalsky.
Brave catering
2020, Kyiv.
Installation. Curators: Dasha Shevtsova, Oleksandra Pohrebniak. Brave Contemporary Music Festival. A room with a set table where edible glass was served so all participants could partake.
2020, Kyiv.
Installation. Curators: Dasha Shevtsova, Oleksandra Pohrebniak. Brave Contemporary Music Festival. A room with a set table where edible glass was served so all participants could partake.
Biruchiy
2016, Biruchiy, Ukraine.
Residency. Curators: Lolya Goldstein, Masha Khrushchak. A series of paintings and graphic works created during a residency.
2016, Biruchiy, Ukraine.
Residency. Curators: Lolya Goldstein, Masha Khrushchak. A series of paintings and graphic works created during a residency.
records of war
2022, Berlin.
Project closed. Founders: Olia Gaidash, Daša Anosova, Anna Riabova, Eugene Shimalsky. Collection of diaries and memories of people directly affected by the Russia-Ukraine war.
2022, Berlin.
Project closed. Founders: Olia Gaidash, Daša Anosova, Anna Riabova, Eugene Shimalsky. Collection of diaries and memories of people directly affected by the Russia-Ukraine war.