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Alena Olasyuk
February 17th, 2026
oneATELIER is pleased to announce that our next Deep Studio Visit will take place at the studio of Ukrainian artist Alena Olasyuk, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on Tuesday, 17 February 2026.
Alena's practice centers on the line — obsessive, repetitive, and diaristic. What began in Beijing with Chinese ink and a Soviet nib pen has developed into a long-term investigation of time, memory, war, and belonging. While drawing remains central, Olasyuk expands this language into canvas, rice paper, embroidery, woodcut, resin, photography, and limited-edition zines. She also creates guided meditations connected to her works, transforming exhibitions into spaces of reflection and stillness, where art becomes both visual and experiential.
Positioned in dialogue with Agnes Martin, Pierre Soulages, and François Morellet, her work insists on its diaristic and lived dimension. Each series is less an isolated project than a continuation of an ongoing record, where repetition becomes a method of transformation.
During the visit, the discussion will focus on the Alena’s ongoing zine project. While her main practice is drawing, using line as a form of long-term research, around a year and a half ago Alena began developing a parallel series of zines. Through this format, she writes and explores themes that closely connect to the same ongoing investigation. The session will provide an opportunity to discuss the project’s development, potential modes of presentation, and which directions may be most worth pursuing further.
Alena Olasyuk is a Ukrainian artist based in Paris, after twelve years in Beijing and time in Vienna. She studied Art and Journalism at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and debuted her first solo exhibition, Three Steps, in 2014. Since then, her work has been shown internationally in China, Taiwan, Ukraine, France, and at the Curitiba Biennale in Brazil (2017). Recent highlights include two solo exhibitions in Taiwan (2020, 2021) and Ode to Lines at HD Galerie, Paris (2024).
Her practice centers on the line — obsessive, repetitive, and diaristic. What began in Beijing with Chinese ink and a Soviet nib pen has developed into a long-term investigation of time, memory, war, and belonging. While drawing remains central, Olasyuk expands this language into canvas, rice paper, embroidery, woodcut, resin, photography, and limited-edition zines. She also creates guided meditations connected to her works, transforming exhibitions into spaces of reflection and stillness, where art becomes both visual and experiential.
Positioned in dialogue with Agnes Martin, Pierre Soulages, and François Morellet, her work insists on its diaristic and lived dimension. Each series is less an isolated project than a continuation of an ongoing record, where repetition becomes a method of transformation.
Alongside her studio practice, Olasyuk has been invited as a scholar-artist at the USC–SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (Shanghai), and has held residencies at Planta Alta and CRA Matadero in Madrid. She has collaborated with international brands including Peugeot and Vogue TV China, and regularly writes on diverse topics including creativity, art communication, AI and more.
