Biography

Olga Kosheleva (b. 1986, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Paris. Her practice spans painting and sculpture, exploring questions of perception, identity, temporality and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

Kosheleva’s sculptural work is distinguished by a series of monumental sunglasses incorporating optical illusions and reflective surfaces. By transforming familiar objects into instruments of altered perception, she examines the relationship between visibility and concealment, inviting viewers to question the ways in which reality is experienced and interpreted.

Her recent return to painting marks a new phase in this ongoing investigation. Moving beyond the physical structure of sculpture, she adopts a more intuitive visual language in which colour, gesture and materiality become central. Her paintings extend her exploration of perception into the realms of imagination and the unconscious, allowing the boundaries between the tangible and the imagined to remain open.

Across these different mediums, Kosheleva’s work reflects a sustained interest in the instability of perception and the elusive nature of existence.

Kosheleva has participated in more than 20 exhibitions and international art fairs across Europe, North America and Asia, including Art Palm Beach, Art Central Hong Kong, Art Monaco, SCOPE Miami Beach, Art New York, Art Toronto and the San Leucio Belvedere Biennale in Italy.

Her work is held in private collections in Europe and the United States. She received an award at the San Leucio Belvedere Biennale in 2017 and the Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Florence in 2018 for her sculpture Icebreakers.

Exhibitions

2025

— Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA

2024

— Art Basel Hong, Art Central, Hong Kong

— La Nuit Blanche, les Arches Citoyennes, Paris

2023

— New Rituals, les Arches Citoyennes, Paris

2021

— Roma Arte in Nuvola, Rome, Italy

— Group Exhibition "Panacea", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Group Exhibition "Art on Money", The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019

— Scope Miami Beach, Miami, USA

— Global Vision, National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Art in Motion IV, Animation Nights New York's Best of Fest, Anderson Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA

— Art New York, Pier 94, New York, USA

2018

— Group exhibition “Art Winter Contemporary”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017

— Group exhibition “Art Autumn Contemporary”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Biennale del Belvedere di San Leucio, Italy

— Group exhibition “Art Summer Contemporary”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Solo exhibition “Art that moves”, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

2016

— Group exhibition “What If Fest”, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Group exhibition “Moving up”, Kyiv city administration, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Solo exhibition, gallery D12, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014

— Solo exhibition “Ukrainian galaxy”, Palace of Congress, Bagnoles de l’Orne, France

— Art Monaco, Forum Grimaldi, Monaco

2013

— Solo exhibition,  gallery Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2012

— Group exhibition “Ukraine and France: crossroad of cultures”, Ukrainian cultural center, Paris, France

— Autumn Salon 2012, Coubron, France

— Group exhibition “Summer’s memories”, museum of Ivan Kavaleridze, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Solo exhibition “Ukrainian Firework”, Gallery Mytets, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011

— Group exhibition of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine

— Solo exhibition “World around me”, museum of Ivan Kavaleridze, Kyiv, Ukraine