"Dear Olga,
What you do with spaces (open, of course), forms, light, color, line, shape, and texture is astonishing to me--telling stories, recalling images and events, forcing the eye into new places and geographies, and at the same time disconcerting the casual viewer. Your art needs to be felt as well as seen, not because it simply evokes emotion but because it stirs sense. I can't imagine how you make so many of the figures that sometimes haunt, sometimes humanize, sometimes in a spiritual way almost transfigure your canvases, but the effect is very powerful and I congratulate you on what you have accomplished.03 March 2021
Giles Gunn
www.meer.com/en/81545-interview-with-olga-goldina-hirsch
www.artisttalkmagazine.com/the-solstice-begins
Runner up TEBBS International Award 2022, TEBBS Gallery, London
Foundation Taylor Member, Paris
Olga Goldina Hirsch, MA FA, is a London-based British artist who
specialises in abstract conceptual painting and masterfully combines abstraction
and figuration in her work. Her art is widely exhibited nationally and
internationally.
Olga received her MA in Fine Art from the City and Guilds of London Art School
(Birmingham University) in 2018. Prior to that, she had completed her studies at
the Putney School of Art and Design. She also took various short art courses at
SLADE, Chelsea School of Art, and City Lit.
In 2024, she had her solo exhibition The Solstice Begins! at the Coningsby
Gallery, London. In 2022, she was the runner-up of the TEBBS International Art
Award. She is also the recipient of the Cazenove Capital Prize and member of
the Taylor Foundation, Paris. In November 2023, she became a recipient of the
Creative Excellence Award by Circle Foundation for the Arts. Olga’s work was also
shortlisted for the Hastings Open 2022 Prize.
In 2021, a work from Olga’s series Who Am I? was featured in the acclaimed
catalogue of Le Salon des Artistes Françaises. In June and December 2023 and
June 2024, her paintings were displayed on the iconic Times Square screens in
Broadway Plaza, New York.
Olga’s works can be found in USA including Brooklyn Art Library, in the
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens; in the Artetage Centre of
Contemporary Art in Vladivostok and in private collections across the UK,
Bulgaria, France, Italy, Canada, and the USA.
Olga’s art harks back to the traditions of the early Russian avant-garde, with its primary
formal concerns for colour, line, plane, depth, and texture. At that, Olga relies on the text
as much as on the image, which is also consistent with early avant-gardist practices. Her
artistic perception also resonates with Moscow conceptualism (aka the second Russian
avant-garde) and its representatives, such as Ilya Kabakov.
Relying on the avant-garde heritage and traditions of her family, Olga explores the
transgenerational impact of tumultuous historical events throughout the 20th century on
the example of her family ( grandparents and parents). Her works are original philosophical
commentaries on the loss and recovery of historical memories and the possibility of
healing through filling in the historical gaps in the collective and family past.
specialises in abstract conceptual painting and masterfully combines abstraction
and figuration in her work. Her art is widely exhibited nationally and
internationally.
Olga received her MA in Fine Art from the City and Guilds of London Art School
(Birmingham University) in 2018. Prior to that, she had completed her studies at
the Putney School of Art and Design. She also took various short art courses at
SLADE, Chelsea School of Art, and City Lit.
In 2024, she had her solo exhibition The Solstice Begins! at the Coningsby
Gallery, London. In 2022, she was the runner-up of the TEBBS International Art
Award. She is also the recipient of the Cazenove Capital Prize and member of
the Taylor Foundation, Paris. In November 2023, she became a recipient of the
Creative Excellence Award by Circle Foundation for the Arts. Olga’s work was also
shortlisted for the Hastings Open 2022 Prize.
In 2021, a work from Olga’s series Who Am I? was featured in the acclaimed
catalogue of Le Salon des Artistes Françaises. In June and December 2023 and
June 2024, her paintings were displayed on the iconic Times Square screens in
Broadway Plaza, New York.
Olga’s works can be found in USA including Brooklyn Art Library, in the
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens; in the Artetage Centre of
Contemporary Art in Vladivostok and in private collections across the UK,
Bulgaria, France, Italy, Canada, and the USA.
Olga’s art harks back to the traditions of the early Russian avant-garde, with its primary
formal concerns for colour, line, plane, depth, and texture. At that, Olga relies on the text
as much as on the image, which is also consistent with early avant-gardist practices. Her
artistic perception also resonates with Moscow conceptualism (aka the second Russian
avant-garde) and its representatives, such as Ilya Kabakov.
Relying on the avant-garde heritage and traditions of her family, Olga explores the
transgenerational impact of tumultuous historical events throughout the 20th century on
the example of her family ( grandparents and parents). Her works are original philosophical
commentaries on the loss and recovery of historical memories and the possibility of
healing through filling in the historical gaps in the collective and family past.
