Ola Lanko 1985

Vit à Amsterdam. Travaille dans Amsterdam.

Représenté par:

Galerie Caroline O'Breen

Ola Lanko studied sociology at National University in Kiev, photography at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Over the past 10 years, Lanko has built a continuous ever-changing practice with a strong focus on building complex multifaceted frameworks. They include a trans-disciplinary approach manifested in a vast diversity of artistic strategies. From photography to immersive multi-sensorial installations, Lanko's practice consists of layered structures combining intuitive and rational wisdoms.

Currently, her practice is inspired by alternative knowledge, cognitive science, transformative processes, monism, plants, smells, sounds and textiles. She addresses rising inequality and fear, polarization and shattering of common realities, the crisis of meaning and trust, subconscious drives and desires.

Lanko uses a systematic and analytical way of thinking, together with a playful visual language as her method to work with photography and explore it as an artistic medium. She believes that in order to get the most from the visual information we are surrounded by, it is necessary to develop a qualitative approach to the process of looking, have a critical attitude towards images and be conscious about the place photography takes in our lives.

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Oeuvres de Ola Lanko

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'Mountain' at KunstHaus Wien, exhibition Visions of Nature, Vienna 2017

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Iris out & Iris in (diptych)

2021

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Ola Lanko en haar fotogenic installaties

Ola Lanko is always concerned with how the medium of photography works. The viewer's critical eye is what she wants to convey with her work.

New Dawn Paper

About image-froming

With her work Ola would like to make us aware of the importance and danger of image–forming, especially in a moment of time where everybody (for instance with their cell phones) is a co–creator of a directed representation of the world, that is often presented as reality.

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Kunst als oefenruimte

For Ola Lanko it is simple: art is not a luxury, but a necessity. It causes people to question the obvious, offers space to think freely and critically, and activates the imagination. In looking at art, Ola concludes, a person becomes human again.

Isabelle van Hemert & Paula Lina

expositions

THEN/NOW/NEXT — 10th anniversary exhibition

Anthony Ngoya, Antoinette Nausikaä, Sander Coers, Aaryan Sinha, Lucas Foglia, Lucas Leffler, Ola Lanko, Satijn Panyigay, Sarah Mei Herman, Witho Worms, Arjan de Nooy, Jaya Pelupessy, Tanja Engelberts, Maura Biava, misha de ridder, Anne Geene, Mounir Raji, Bart Lunenburg, Elisa Strinna, Milah van Zuilen, Manjot Kaur, Anastasia Samoylova

28 jun - 30 aug 2025, Amsterdam, Nederland

Amsterdam Art Week 2021

Ola Lanko

17 jun - 27 jun 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Insight Whisperer

Ola Lanko

16 jun - 10 jul 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Dans la collection du musée:

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

Dans la collection corporative:

KPMG

LUMC

ING Collection

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For her graduation work Ola Lanko was awarded the Steenbergen Stipendium, an acknowledged annual prize for photography graduates. In 2013 she received New Talent Photography award. Since 2010 Lanko constantly participates in various exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. Her work was shown in numerous art institutions such as FOAM, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Kunst Haus Wien (Vienna), Museo Amparo (México) and Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland). In 2015, she was an artist in residency at WIELS Contemporary art center in Brussels and attended HISK post-academic art institute in Gent, Belgium, in 2017. Works of Ola Lanko have been acquired by the Nederlands Fotomuseum, ING, KPMG, LUMC and various private collections. Besides her artistic practice, Ola teaches at the photography department in the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.

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