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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.