Krykun uses a diverse array of media within her practice, including video, objects and painting, which she subsequently assembles to create complex installations. By combining elements of fictional narratives with references to cultural and socially relevant symbols, she invents a self-contradicting mythology of our day-and-age. Krykun's work is heavily informed by her experiences growing up in her family's souvenir shop during a swiftly globalizing 1990s Ukraine. Her practice, which is strongly rooted in intuition and emotion, serves as a kind of poetry for the times we live in.

"The underlying experience for Olga Krykun’s generation is 'post-digital intimacy', which manifests itself in the artist’s work by balancing on the borderline between the offline and online worlds, at the intersection of which she tries to find something meaningful and authentic. She combines with ease elements of pagan or Eastern-Slavic mythology and ritualistic practice, which on a deeper level speak about shared values and cultural identity, with popular culture symbols and products. What comes out of it is an excessive creativity and roughness that could be described as a form of feminist punk.” (Jindřich Chalupecký Award jury statement)

Contact me:
krykun13@gmail.com

Solo exhibitions:
2025
Dolls, Gemini Season, Marseille, France

Days, Months, Years, NoD, Prague, Czech Republic

2024
Woods, Yoyogipartypicnic, Tokyo, Japan

2023
Незабудки, Forget-me-nots, Niezapominajki, Ukrainski Dom, Warsaw, Poland

2022
Can you still remember this day?, Wanda gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Незабудки, Forget-me-nots, Niezapominajki, Skala gallery, Poznan, Poland

Stone wings - Kamenná křídla, Opero, Prague, Czech Republic


2020
Four Trap Doors, Šachta, Prague, Czech Republic


2019
Dont Panic!, Galerie UM, Prague, Czech Republic

EnjoyeTV, Gallery Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden


2018
Gylptodon Expert Interview, City Surfer Office gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

BAD FACE DAY, Sklad M1, Prague, Czech Republic


2017
720/027, NoD, Prague, Czech Republic

Freesome, Berlinskej model, Prague, Czech Republic




Selected group and duo exhibitions: 

2026
Gen Z. All at Once, MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Šepoty zdí, The Museum of the Novojičín Region, Czech Republic

2025
Flor de un día, MXM Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Resonans, Ulstrup Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark,
Krajinou sám na trajektorii pohybu, Dsc Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Away with the fairies, Ballon Rouge, online
Irresolute, Harsh Collective, online


2024
Gemini Season x Cabinet Enamel, Marseille, France
Festival of contemporary art Prostějov, Czech Republic

2023
Spring and Summer Residency Show, Hollybush Place, London, United Kingdom
Summer Residency Show, Goodeye projects, London, United Kingdom
X. Sympozium, Galerie Miroslava Kubika, Litomysl, Czech Republic
Refugees Welcome - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland 

Tracing the Geometry of Cyberwar, Prater Galerie, Berlin, Germany
West Point 2023, Pilsen city gallery, Czech Republic
Slippery Mnemosyne, Považská galéria umenia v Žiline, Slovakia
Spring Warsaw, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland

Serenade of Shadows, duo with Masha Kovtun, 427, Riga, Latvia


2022
Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2022: Vše pevné se spojuje ve vzduchu, National gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Fire and Hope, Galerie NTK, Prague, Czech Republic
New Perspectives, Young Talents in Czech Art, Czech Center Seoul, South Korea
ARTakeaway, The next stop?, Prague metro, Czech Republic
IS IT REAL? The power of your imagination, Off the 2022 festival, Katowice, Poland
Topograficke Lekce, GVU Nachod, Nachod, Czech Republic
Blasts Cries Laughter, Pragovka, Prague, Czech Republic
Colored lenses: Life Among Others, online, Yermilov centre Kharkiv, Ukraine

2021
Reality do you need me?, Four days, Prague, Czech Republic

Apostasia: Rituals of Letting Go, Garage Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
This Mess We’re In, Svetova 1, Prague, Czech Republic

NO ONE SURVIVES THESE EDGES, Galerie Favu, Brno, Czech Republic
BLACK BEEMER > WHITE BOOMER, GAMPA, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Body Movement as a Space-Time (Dis)continuity, GAMU, Prague, Czech Republic


2020
DWELLING, Šopa gallery, Košice, Slovakia
Soloshow: CHAPTER 2, soloshow.online

2019
Zhan yi, Yo-Chang Art Museum, New Taipei city, Taiwan
The Martyr’s Tale, Sinkhole project, Pankow cemetery, Berlin, Germany.
NEVŠECHNO/NOTEVERYTHING, Des Fours Palace, Prague, Czech Republic.
Videokemp, Convent of Saint Agnes, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
a river, a tool, an instep like a half-open book, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

2018
TB 2 RL, +DEDE, Berlin, Germany
Quiet Chamber, Noisy Heart, Holešovická šachta, Prague, Czech Republic
KURS, Atelierhaus Klingental, Raum 103, Basel, Switzerland
Basic Instinct Spesial Feat, duo with Adrian Altman, Pragovka, Prague, Czech Republic
Fake Me - Break the Simulation - Be Awesome, galerie amu, Prague, Czech Republic
International Virtual Exhibition Unleashing Screensaver, online
Supernova, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Republic


2017
I’ve painted the gate red, now I think red was the wrong colour, korpus., Prague, Czech Republic
Supermedia, Museum of Photography and Modern Visual Media, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic

2016
Nevim, jak tohle dopadne, Galerie Sam83, Ceska Briza, Czech Republic
AiC Stefle, Galerie bratri Spillaru, Domazlice, Czech Republic

Screenings and performances:

2021, Springs.video, It is my country even though I do not belong here, online

2021, Walk with me, Divadlo Alfred ve Dvore, Prague, Czech Republic, online. 

2020, SlowTV at Divadlo X10, Prague, Czech Republic, online.

2017, Fx00136302, performance with Max Lysacek, Hala 17, Holesovicka trznice, Prague, Czech Republic

Awards:

2022, Jindřich Chalupecký Award, laureate

2021, Start Point Prize, finalist

Rezidence:
6okken, Yamanashi, Japan
Paradise Air, Matsudo, Japan
Goodeye Project, London, United Kingdom
Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
X. Sympozium, Galerie Miroslava Kubika, Litomysl, Czech Republic
Skala gallery, Visegrad Artist Residency, Poznan, Poland

INI Project, Prague, Czech Republic
AiC Stefle | Artists in Cottage, Czech Republic

Collections:
The Náchod Art Gallery
Private collections in the Czech Republic, Poland, USA, UK, Spain, Monaco and Denmark.

Education:
2016 – 2021, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Painting studio, Supermedia studio.
2019, National Taiwan University of Arts, MFA Fine Arts Departament 
2019, Konstfack, MFA Fine Arts Departament
2018, The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Temporary Arts studio
2016, The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, T.E.I. of Athens
2014 - 2016, The Ladislav Sutnar's Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia, Intermedia studio