Olena Morozova
Visual multidisciplinary artist. Born in Kyiv. In 2002, she graduated from the National University of Kyiv named after M. P. Dragomanov. Since 2015, she has been engaged in artistic practice, working with photography, collage, drawing, sculpture, and installation; she explores social issues, themes of gender and self-identity, family relationships, memory, psychological and mental disorders. Since 2022, she has been living and working between Poland and Ukraine.
Morozova is the author of the books Babushka (2023), I Knew She Would Never Have Children (2024), and My Mom Dreamed of Seeing the Ocean (2025).
Olena's works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and the US, published in art magazines, and won international photography awards. She is a FRESH EYES TELENT 2023, a member of the Futures Photography platform, the MYPH Community, and CUTOUT Collage.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multidisciplinary artist who explores memory, identity, physicality, and human interaction with space and time.
I am interested in states of silence and unexpressedness—what is hidden behind gestures, color, and form. In my work, I address themes of family ties, emotional and psychological transformations, loss, trauma, and migration, exploring how personal experience shapes our perception of ourselves and the world around us.
I work with photography, collage, drawing, installation, and performance, creating intuitive visual dialogues that combine the documentary with the personal. I am interested in visualizing what is difficult to express in words—presence, traces, internal changes. One of the key elements in my practice is the color red—as a symbol of life, body, pain, tension, vulnerability, and love. It is pulse, emotion, movement.
Living between Ukraine and Poland, I keenly feel the themes of war, loss, and the search for home. My art is a way to hold on to the fragile and fleeting.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Zaporizhzhia Contemporary Art Center, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2025
- “Roots Are Breathing”, Futures Photography Hub, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “IDENTITY CODE: Nation, Culture, Politics”, CUTOUT Collage Festival 2025, National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery”, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Ukrainian House Japan (NPO), Tokyo, Japan
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Berlin Story Bunker Museum, Berlin, Germany
- “IDENTITY CODE: Nation, Culture, Politics”, CUTOUT Collage Festival 2025, Between Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- “IDENTITY CODE: Nation, Culture, Politics”, CUTOUT Collage Festival 2025, Gallery Le Bonheur Est Dans L’instant, Paris, France
- “Meaning After Loss”, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Take My Love”, Kut Art Space, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Le Jardin d'été, Arles, France
- “Δία Kinets”, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- “Δία Kinets”, Dukat Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Counsil of Europe, Strasburg, France
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Antropia Congres Center, Driebergen, Netherlands
- “Δία Kinets”, A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture, Bratislava, Slovakia
- “Fragments”, Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024
- “Granny”, Insight Photo Festival, Varese, Italy
- “Granny”, “I Knew She Would Never Have Children”, Kut Art Space, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “More Than Houses”, The New Art Space “Spadshchyna.kyiv”, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Paper Photo. Prologue” exhibition of photobooks, Galeria Pusta, Katowice, Poland
- “Δία Kinets”, Maly Berlin Culture Center, Trnava, Slovakia
- “For The Sake of The Letter”, Le Bonheur Est Dans L’Instant, Paris, France
- “Δία Kinets”, Ziegel Gallary, Graz, Austria
- “Ukrainian Photo Books”, FotoFestiwal, Lodz, Poland
- “Contemporary Ukrainian Photography”, Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Depths of Psyche” - Photography of MYPH, Korsakiv Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
- “Lyuboshchi ta Pestoshchi” (Love and Caresses), Ya Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
- “Subconscious”, Porokhova Vezha, Lviv, Ukraine
- “Seeing Dreams”, Museum of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Light in the Dark - Photography of MYPH”, Gutman Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2023
- “Granny”, Open Studio in La Becque Art Residency, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
- World Biennial of Student Photography, Gallery of Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
- “Implication”, 31 artspace, Lviv, Ukraine
- “The Photographers of Ukraine”, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA
- Fresh Eyes Talents 2023, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “FREEDOM”, CUTOUT Collage Festival Kyiv-Paris 2023, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Light in the Dark - Photography of MYPH”, ArtPrize Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- 5th Art Festival of Women's Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Memory, Mykolaiv ART Week Festival, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
- “MYPH at Sklad”, Sklad #5, Cherkasy, Ukraine
- “Kiyw ohne Licht”, Schaubüdchen gallery, Bohum, Germany
- 香港攝影書節 Hong Kong Photobook Festival
- “When you gaze long into an abyss...”, exhibition by MYPH Collective, Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- “And there will be silence...”, Zaporizhzhia Regional Youth Centre, Zaporizhzhia
- “MYPH 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY”, online gallery @baroque.app
- “Family Connections”, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia
- “Whispers & Shouts: Voices of Ukrainian Women Photographers”, Fotodok, Utrecht, Netherlands
- "How does it feel?", Fotodok, Utrecht, Netherlands
2022
- “Granny”, Rybnikfotofestival, the 19th edition, Rybnik, Poland
- “I Knew She Would Never Have Children”, Musem of Polish Sculpture Center, Oronsko, Poland
- “Never ended journey”, Mazowieckie Center of Contemporary Arts “Elektrownia”, Radom, Poland
- “Granny”, Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022, Denmark
- “Granny”, Mungo Park Teater, Allerød, Denmark
- “Crossing the Line”, Walker Art Gallery, UNK, Kearney, Nebraska, USA
- Ukrainian Women Photographers Today, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, USA
- “MYPH Collective Exhibition“, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Encontros da Imagem 2022, “Common Places”, the 32nd edition, Portugal
- Slideshow of Futures Photography Platform nominee’s projects within Łódź Fotofestiwal program, Łódź, Poland
- “In the Name of Freedom” 2.0 edition, A|E Gallery, Potsdam, Germany
- “ZARAZ” Lviv Biennale 2022, Ukraine
- “Save Us”, Kunstwerk Gallery, Varel, Germany
- Slideshow of documentary photo stories from Ukrainian Photographers, Sune Jonsson Centrum för Dokumentärfotografi bedriver utställnings, Västerbottens museum, Umeå, Sweden
- “In the Name of Freedom”, Chaussee 36, Berlin, Germany
- “So Sweet Ukraine”, The Finnish Museum of Photography
2021
- “Zephyr”, KKKC (Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre), Klaipeda, Lithuania
- “Shift&Varation”, Ukrainian-Korean Exhibition by AKT and KUCA, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “New Seeds”, Float magazine, online show
- Bristol Photo Festival, England
- VIEPA 2021, Awards Ceremony
- MS:2021[marushchenko.school], Kyiv, Ukraine
- “Thinking of Future”, Estate Photographia 2021 5th edition, Fototeca Siracusana, Sicily, Italy
- Female Ukrainian Photographers, Odesa Photo Days Festival
- "CONNECT ", Mykolaiv, Ukraine
2020
- MYPH GRADUATES ONLINE SHOW
- Photo Kyiv Fair 2020, online addition
- "New Generation", Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019
- Photo Kyiv Fair 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine + exhibition catalogue
- Kyiv Photography School Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine