Polina Osipova
Born 1998 Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic
​Since 2022 based in UK
Polina is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the junction of craft and archeology of collective memory.
She refers to, reflects on and learns from the expertise of her female ancestors, using textiles and archival family photos to explore the threads between past and future - temporal and timeless, creating portals from the digital age to analogue.
The recurring symbols of photographs in her work creates the illusion of an untold story hidden in her family archives. Working across textile, sculpture, wearable sculptures and engages with performance and photography – a set of works she considers intrinsically bound together and functioning as an organic whole.
The wearable sculptures and objects she creates function as both regular sculptures as well as garments that are performed in, and which subsequently become a part of personal mythology.
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Awards
2021 Creative Activism Awards, Cultures of Resistance Foundation, Brazil
Perfomances
2025 “Exhibition 01”, Sozanni Fondazione(Paris), Paris, France
2024 "Rememberance of Things Future", Perfomance, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
Screenings
2024 "Kinetic Machines", Sala Equis Cinema, Madrid, Spain
Selected Exhibitions
2025
“Happened to the Heart”, JO-HS Gallery, NYC, USA
2024
"The Dream", International photography festival PhEst, Monopoli, Italy
"Rememberance of Things Future", Perfomance, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
2023
“ArtlLab Eyeland”, International photography festival PhEst, Taranto, Italy
“Beyond”, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
“Өмә”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien x NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2022
“MacArthur Park”, Cromwell Place, London, UK
“Fashion for Bank robbers”, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany
“Still Happening”, Kupfer Project, London, UK
“*******”, Tilde Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Yellow Fields, Blue Skies” , Pushkin House, London, UK
2021
"Digital mythology" Cothinkers Annual Prize, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
“5x5=26”, presented by Institut and the Hermitage Foundation UK, UK
“Ay”, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia