Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Artist

Bio

Stanislava Ovchinnikova is a postdisciplinary artist and a curator examining the interactions between human and non-human bodies, lived environments, and ideological apparatuses. Her work relies on autobiographical materials and intergenerational histories, and often involves other members of affected communities at the research stage. Among her recent projects is a photographic series “Notation for the Surveyors of the Interminable,” which documents ideologically potent scenes, objects, and sites at a refugee reception center in Finland; a lecture-performance on the politics of witnessing “Understanding The Urgency”; and “Two Gardens,” an essay about the ideologically divided plot of land that belonged to her family.
Her work was presented in places like Titanik Gallery (FI), Kaunas Artists’ House (LT), Sodas 2123 (LT), and PostPlay Lab (UA), among others. Since 2023, Ovchinnikova has been working as a guest curator in an archive of Ukrainian wartime dance films Let The Body Speak. She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.