Volha / Olga Salakheyeva (1984) – video artist, curator, media & communication specialist from Minsk, Belarus.
After having studied Arts & Visual Culture in Minsk, Saint-Petersburg and Vilnius, I’ve turned to making my own visuals.
I’m interested in contemplation vs. action opposition. By mixing fragments of photo, video and film I can control and manipulate realities and emotional states. I prefer non-narrative cinematic images and AV performances where the audience can concentrate more – rather than VJ sets at club events. I’m searching for a way to create dreamlike visual environment that can help people know and heal themselves.
I work with several independent Belarusian culture initiatives, curating and creating art and education projects:
- Artes Liberales festival (co-curator)
- Mental Force Festival (co-founder, co-curator)
- Force Carriers label (VJ, manager)
- Foundamental Network label / promo-group (VJ)
Artist:
2019
- (A)SOCIAL ELEVATOR – w/ Pavel Niakhayeu, Minsk, BY
2018
- Head In The Clouds – w/ Pavel Niakhayeu, Tetyana Tsvilodub at Kavaleridze. Re:Vision, Kyiv, UA
- Copernicus – w/ Pavel Niakhayeu at Torun, PL
- I Will Revenge This World With Love’ – w/ Pavel Niakhayeu at Non-Fashion, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, BY
- ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ – w/ SONORUS Capella and Pavel Niakhayeu, Minsk, BY
2017
- ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ – w/ SONORUS Capella and Pavel Niakhayeu, Minsk, BY
- ‘I Will Revenge This World With Love’ – w/ Pavel Niakhayeu at Parajanov Festival in Lviv, UA
- ”Eternal Wanderer” – w/ Apex Sphere and Pavel Ambiont at Unsound Dislocation X Mental Force Festival, Minsk, BY
- ‘Utopias & Dystopias’ – w/ Poly Chain (UA/PL) and I/DEX (BY) at Artes Liberales festival, Azgur Museum, Minsk, BY
2016
- Exorcistic Gesamtkunstwerk, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, BY
- Pavel Voinitski exhibition presentation, Azgur Museum, Minsk, BY
2015
- Mental Force Festival – w/ I/DEX, Minsk, BY
- Dark Side Of Techno – w/ Hadamard (NL), Hrodna, BY
- Exorcistic Gesamtkunstwerk, Minsk, BY
2014
- Glass Worlds w/Nicolas Horvath (FR) Minsk, BY
- Scandinavian Electronic Music Days w/Mesak (FI), Minsk
- Dark Side Of Techno w/ DMX Krew (UK), Hrodna, BY
- Pryzba-fest, Biełaviežskaja Pušča, BY
- Ilya Sin’s book presentation, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, BY
- Museum Night. Museum of Azgur, Minsk, BY
2013
- Taste The East, Białystok, PL
- Recha Dachu Festival, Pružany, BY
- toKino Festival, Vilnius, LT
- Dach – XX festival, Modern Art Museum, Minsk, BY
- pARTisan Magazine 10th anniversary, Y Gallery, Minsk, BY
- Orient_aKcja: Belarus / Culture for the Eastern Partnership,Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin, PL
- Artes Liberales 2013, Y Gallery, Minsk, BY
2012
- Plaster 3 festival, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, PL
- Artes Liberales 2012, Y Gallery, Minsk, BY
- Irrhythmia – Centras Festival,, Romuva cinema, Kaunas, LT
- Irrhythmia – Terra Nova festival, National Library of Belarus, Minsk, BY
2011
- Irrhythmia, Laboratorio Symbolon, Barcelona, ES
- Live Performers Meeting – X, Y Gallery, Minsk, BY
- Deep Dub II – Techno Dub Grooves, Dirty Deal Cafe, Riga, LV
- Show Belarus – Show Europe, Gudijos Erdve, Klaipeda, LT
- Belarus Sound Art in Poland, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, PL
- Live Performers Meeting – IX, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Rome, IT
- BeYo!Fest, BelArt Gallery, Minsk, BY
Curator / Coordinator / Tutor / Expert:
2018
- Expert at Creative Economy Hackaton, Minsk, BY
2017
- Media-art program curator: Unsound Dislocation X Mental Force Festival, Minsk, BY
- A/V program curator: Artes Liberales festival, Minsk, BY
2016
- [working at UNDP Belarus]
2015
- Co-founder/co-curator: Mental Force Festival, Minsk, BY
- A/V program curator: Artes Liberales festival, Minsk, BY
- [working at UNDP Belarus]
2014
- Lecturer:“Live cinema: cinema as performance”, Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival 2014, Minsk, BY
- Tutor:“Urban Audio-Visual Rhythms” workshop, Artes Liberales festival, Minsk, BY
- Lecture:“Live cinema: cinema as performance”, Artes Liberales festival, Minsk, BY
- A/V program curator: Artes Liberales festival, Minsk, BY
2013
- Lecturer: “Live cinema: cinema as performance“, toKino festival, Vilnius, LT
2012
- Tutor: “Urban Audio-Visual Rhythms” workshop, LitPro Summer School “City.Language.Identity”, Vilnius, LT
2011
- Artist coordinator: Live Performers Meeting – X, Y Gallery, Minsk, BY
Presentation / booklet:
Contact me:
- email: olga.salaheeva at gmail.com
- FB: VJ Solar Olga