Olga Polyak

Olga Polyak is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working at the intersection of art, history, and education. Her practice combines participatory and socially engaged methods with collage, hand printing, photography, poetry, and performance, creating spaces for dialogue between personal and collective experience.

Polyak develops art programs that bring together artists, teenagers, and educators to reflect on complex social issues through accessible, process-based artistic practices. She often works in public and informal spaces, using a non-directive, improvisational approach that values listening, collaboration, and experimentation. Her projects question how art can serve as a tool for dialogue, reflection, and care, addressing themes of memory, belonging, and social inequality.

She is the founder and curator of the youth art community 20P_, and co-founder of the self-publishing magazine SVAYA. Polyak has collaborated with IZOLYATSIA Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Insha Osvita, Asortymentna Kimnata, and the Frankivsk School of Contemporary Art, and has worked alongside artists and curators such as Tereza Yakovyna, Stanislav Turina, Natalia Lisova and Clemens Pul.