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Ola Lanko
Born in 1985, Kiev, UA | Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Education
Post academic course HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts | Ghent (BE) | 2016-2017
Photography department at Gerrit Rietveld Academy | Amsterdam (NL)| 2010-2012
Photography department at Royal Academy of Art (KABK) | The Hague (NL) | 2008-2010
Master of Sociology | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (UKR) | 2005-2007
Bachelor of Sociology | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (UKR) | 2002-2005
Exhibitions
2021
Insight Whisperer | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2018
Gentle radical | Arti et Amicitiae | Amsterdam (NL)
2017
Fractured linearities of time | Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography | Biel (CH)
Visions of nature | Kunst haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser | Vienna (AT)
Suspension of Disbelief | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Amsterdam Art Fair | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Open studios HISK | Higher Institute for Fine Arts | Gent (BE)
Blauwdruk Fotofesival | Schiedam (NL)
2016
Dazzle Swing | UNSEEN | Amsterdam (NL)
Field of dependency | Melkweg Galerie | Amsterdam (NL)
Do boomerangs always come back? | Castle d'Aspremont-Lynden | Oud-Rekem (BE)
Prospects and Concepts | Van Nellefabriek | Rotterdam (NL)
Quickscan | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
Reading images | OBA | Amsterdam (NL)
Dining at the arists table | Mesdag Collectie | The Hague (NL)
2015
Shelter | KADS Public space | Amsterdam (NL)
Romanic act of reason | Museo Amparo | México (MX)
Day trip | UNSEEN | Amsterdam (NL)
Romanic act of reason | ReGeneraion 3 | Musée de l’Elysée | Lausanne (CH)
Harry Pennings Award | Galerie Pennings | Eindhoven (NL)
Spell to Spelling / Spelling to Spell | De Appel | Amsterdam (NL)
Sill/Life – Contemporary Dutch Photography | Shanghai Himalayas Museum | Shanghai (CN)
Circulation (s) | CENTQUATRE | Paris (FR)
2014
All year round | FOAM, Photography museum | Amsterdam (NL)
Romanic act of reason | Breda Photo | New Romanticism | Breda (NL)
Balconism | MoMart | Amsterdam (NL)
Still/Life – Contemporary Dutch Photography | Three Shadows Photography Arts Center |Beijing (CH)
BredaPhoto | Breda’s Museum | Breda (NL)
2013
Required Reading | Tot Moes café, De Appel | Amsterdam (NL)
DAY | Rijnstate | Arnhem (NL)
New Visions On Photography | TORCH gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
WIT | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
Toren | x10 | Amsterdam (NL)
2012-2013
Required Reading / Техника чтения | Mala Galereya (Small Gallery) of Mystetskyi Arsenal |Kiev (UKR)
2012
ArtOlive Jong Talent | LOODS 6 | Amsterdam (NL)
Ernstig Geschikt! | Showroom | Arnhem (NL)
Photo Academy Award | Fotomuseum The Hague | Den Haag (NL)
Steenbergen Stipendium | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
The best of Graduates | Ron Mandos | Amsterdam (NL)
Photo Academy Award | Fotomuseum Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
Rietveld Graduation Show
ArtOlive Jong Talent | LOODS 6 | Amsterdam (NL)
Ernsig | Geschikt! Showroom | Arnhem (NL)
2011
Material conversation | Grimmuseum | Berlin (DE)
There is no such thing as silence | Rietveld project space | Amsterdam (NL)
Independent Mystetsky Arsenal | Kyiv | Ukraine
Categories (collaborative project) | Les Rencontres d'Arles photographie | Arles (FR)
Teenage Magazines | Buro Rietveld | Amsterdam (NL)
Watching | Breakin' Walls Festival | Amsterdam (NL)
Teenage Magazines | FOAM | Amsterdam (NL)
Identity | Skalvija Cinema Center | Vilnius (LT)
Residencies and Special Programs
2015 Artist-in-residency | WIELS | Brussels (BE)
2015 Talent ontmoet talent | Special program of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences | Amsterdam (NL)
2015 PLAT(T)FORM international portfolio viewing | Fotomuseum Winterthur | Winterthur (CH)
2013 Collaboration project ED | A collective exploring current state of photography
2012 Anarcademia | Collaboration project at W139 between Brazilian and Amsterdam based artists | Amsterdam (NL)
2010-2011 Honours Art and Research Programme | Collaboration project between University of Amsterdam and Gerrit Rietveld Academy | Amsterdam (NL)
Publications
2015
Octagon: a tool for a systematic research
2013
ED IT: The substantial system for photographic maintenance
2012
Required Reading
2011
Massaging the table, Art and Research program
‘Holding the mirror’, FOAM magazine Nr. 29
Nominations, Grants & Awards
2018 The Mondriaan Fund Stipend Bewezen talent
2017 The Mondriaan Fund Stipend for Depth Development Artistic Practice
2016 The Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Depth Development Artistic Practice
2015 Harry Pennings Award | Nominee
2015 The Mondriaan Fund Artist-in-residency Grant
2014 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards | Nominee
2014 Steenbergen Stichting
2014 The Mondriaan Fund De Werkbijdrage Jong Talent
2013 ING New Talent Photography Award | Winner
2013 Young Art Fund Amsterdam
2013The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) Day project support
2012 Steenbergen Stipendium | Winner
2012 Photo Academy Award | Nominee
Special Projects
2017-2020
diptych in love | Collaboration project combining gastronomy and artistic tools of expression
diptych | Immersive 8-seat omakase room
Ludo & Hedo | Social intervention, ice cream shop
2017
Archive salvation force | A fictional artist initiative to revitalise the archives
Talks, lectures & writing
2015 FOAM, photography museum | blog contributor
2015 De Correspondent | Imagine you have a date with a gruesome image
2014 Symposium: Disguise and Deception | Lecture-performance "Framing the gruesomeness" | Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Symposium: On the Sustainability of Photography: From Material Detachment to Digital Amnesia | Lecture-performance "Mine the image” | Amsterdam (NL)
2013 St. Lucas University of Art and Design | Lecture “Showing the invisible” | Antwerpen (BE)
2013 The Hague Museum of Photography | Lecture “Modern selfie iconography” | The Hague (NL)
Collections
Het Nederlands Fotomusem | Rotterdam (NL)
ING Collection
LUMC Collection
KPMG Collection
Various Private Collections