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eng Automatic Translation

Olga Kirillova

1961

Artist, photographer, pianist.

Works with photo and video archives, audio, performance. Explores the themes of invisible and conditional boundaries, control and freedom, sexuality and censorship. Refers to personal experience, hidden private life, using the body as a tool.

Lives and works in Minsk.

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Personal site:

cargocollective.com/olgakirillova

Selected events

Selected Artwork Series

Associated institutions

Articles on KALEKTAR

Associated Documents

Selected dates:

May 18, 1961

Born in Minsk in a family of musicians (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus). From an early age she studied music, studied at a special secondary music school at the Belarusian State Conservatory.

Since 1984

After graduating from the conservatory and magistracy, she began working at the Academy of Music and the Belarusian State Philharmonic. Tours and concerts in Europe and Asia. Laureate and diploma winner of international competitions.

2000–2005

Taught a piano class at the Russian-South Korean University in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia) and at the State University in Zhenzhou (China).

2012–2016

Turns to photography and independently studies the history of photography in the world and in Belarus, as well as contemporary art.

2016

She graduated from photography courses at the Belarusian Union of Designers. She took part in master classes and final exhibitions under the guidance of Manuel Schroeder (Germany), as well as Anastasia Markelova (Russia), Margo Ovcharenko (Russia).

Since 2016

Participates in exhibitions. She held a personal exhibition "Urban Suite" in the gallery of the Baltic International Academy in Riga.

2017

The Secret Folder project was selected in the Panasonic Reader's Choice Award Bird in Flight Prize nomination for a portfolio review with Antoine d'Agata, Salvatore Vitale, as well as an online portfolio review with Rafal Milach, Karolina Gembara at the invitation of Sputnik Photos.

Membership in the Union of Photographers.

2021

Personal exhibition "Secret folder" in the Memorial Museum-workshop of Zair Azgur in Minsk.