Polina Osipova

Born 1998

ARTIST STATEMENT

Polina is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the threads between the past future, the temporal and the timeless, creating portals into them from the present. The artist creates ironic objects, sculptures and wearable sculptures that subsequently become part of her artistic cosmos, captured in photos and videos.

Polina’s preferred mediums include textiles and archival photographs. As an indigenous artist, Polina taps into and reflects upon her female ancestors’ experiences, using hand-woven textiles to establish a sense of deep connection to the past generations.

In her works, Polina deliberately fuses together often contrasting materials - pearls and motherboards, machinery and lace, anatomical hearts and metals to achieve the aim of disrupting visual socio-cultural narratives.



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Awards
2021 Creative Activism Awards, Cultures of Resistance Foundation, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Polina Osipova "Digital mythology" Cothinkers Annual Prize, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2023
“ArtlLab Eyeland”, International photography festival PhEst, Taranto, Italy

“Beyond”, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK 

“Өмә”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien x NGBK, Berlin, Germany

2022
“MacArthur Park”, Cromwell Place, London, UK

“Fashion for Bank robbers”, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany

“Still Happening”, Kupfer Project, London, UK

“*******”, Tilde Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Yellow Fields, Blue Skies” , Pushkin House, London, UK

2021
“5x5=26”, presented by Institut and the Hermitage Foundation UK, UK

“Ay”, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2020
Moscow international Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia