Olia Sosnovskaya is an artist, writer and cultural organiser born in Minsk, Belarus, based in Vienna, Austria. Her artistic and research practice intertwines performance, visual arts, text- and workshop-based activities, addressing forms of political organizing, protest choreographies, movement scores and intersections of festivity and the political. Member of WHPH / Decentric Circles self-organised platform https://workhardplay.pw/ and the artistic-research group Problem Collective, focused on strikes, archives, reading practices and tools for engagement with overseen histories and social struggles https://problemcollective.org/. Currently a Phd-in-Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Her individual and collective works were presented in Kunsthalle Wien, e-flux, Tanzquartier Wien, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Kyiv Biennial, Biennale Matter of Art (Prague), HKW (Berlin), HAU (Berlin), Manifesta Biennial (Kosovo), documenta fifteen, among others.
