Curator: Bohdan Polishchuk
Olga Novikova
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1995) and the National Union of the Theatre Atrists of Ukraine (2007).
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv, 1995; D. Lider’s workshop).
She works as a production designer in The Les` Kurbas National Centre for Theatre Arts (Kyiv, since 1997). She produced scenography and costumes for the performances: “Waiting for Godot” based on the play S. Becket, directed by A. Zamanska (1996),”Cola Icy” based on the play by L. Chupis, directed by O. Shaparenko, “Action” based on the play by C. Shepard, director V. Marguet (France) (both – 2007), costumes for the play “Othello” based on the play by L. Itselev, directed by A. Kantsedailo, “Wild Honey in the Year of the Black Rooster” based on the play O. Mykolaichuk, director O. Shaparenko (both – 2011), costumes to the play “The Abyss Calls the Abyss” based on the play by O. Tanyuk, director S. Suknenko (2015). Also worked on the project by O. Tanyuk “Lakshmi’s Dream, who saw Vishnu in his dream, or a meditation on the theme of the play of the Gods” (2019-2020), directed by Myroslav Hrynyshyn. Designing the collection “Newest French Play” (2003), collections “Newest Serbian Play” (2006), the first anthology of the modern biographical drama “The Secret of Being” (2015), collections of plays by Y. Vereshchak “Centrifuge” (2018), books “Les Tanyuk: renaissance energy” (2020).
Participant of art exhibitions since 1990. Designs performances, books, and also creates posters, drawings, and easel painting. Personal works are kept in private collections of Ukraine, America, Germany, France. Television: a series of works – to the novel in verse “Marusya Churai” (1990) and drama, poems “Snow in Florence” (1992) by L. Kostenko, to the drama-extravaganza “Forest Song” (1994—96) by Lesia Ukrainka; series of works “Waiting for Godot”(1996); a series of works based on Ukrainian motifs “Vertep” (1990), “Govoriv Myron…” (1991), “Our grandmother’s trouble is neither on the stove nor on the bench” (2014); “Dream Harlequin” (2015); “On the Eve of the Holidays” (1992); a series of graphic works to Voltaire’s poem “The Maid of Orleans” (1995).
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