Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Artistic projects
2026 / The Animal That Therefore You Made Me (Follow)
/ performance, public space intervention
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 1/4)
/ durational performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 2/4) 
/ text-based performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 3/4)
/ sound-based performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 4/4)
/ premiere: 19.08.26 @ Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki
2026 / Untitled 
/ text, artistic commission of Pori Art Museum
2024-ongoing / Suspension in Other Terms
/ photography
2023 / Understanding The Urgency
/ lecture-performance
2023 / My Mother Told Me Not To Look Men In The Eye
/ video (silent)
2021 / Am I Dead Yet?
/ photography

Curatorial projects
2026 / Bark! (Volume 1) @ HIAP
2025 / Ukraine (working title) @ Critical Gallery, Turku, FI
2024 / 2 Years, 3657 Days @ Kaunas Artists’ House, LT
2023-2024 / Moving in Mayhem @ international touring


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current:
A Performance for Two / Generation 2026 @ Amos Rex Museum
Untitled (text) / De Se - Attitude @ Pori Art Museum

upcoming:
Bark! (Volume 3) / 6.09 @ HIAP Community Room
Dwell Here Residency / September 2026 @ Irish Museum of Modern Art
Bark! (Exhibition) / November 2026 @ Gallery Augusta, HIAP

2024 / 2 Years, 3657 Days / Curatorial project




2 Years, 3657 Days was a two-act evening of Ukrainian performing art hosted by Kaunas Artists’ house on the 22nd of February 2024 to commemorate 10 years of Ukrainian resistance to russian aggression. 

During the first part of the evening, a dancer and choreographer, Anton Ovchinnikov (UA/LT), performed “Beauty of the Beast,” a live work that critically examines the role of russian classical ballet in the country’s military-industrial complex, as well as the culture’s role within state ideology and propaganda. In particular, Beauty of the Beast focused on classical ballet as an art form that reproduces and normalizes violence over the human body. 

The live performance was followed by a screening of 10 Ukrainian contemporary dance films created in response to the russian full-scale invasion. The program, titled “Moving in Mayhem,” presented reflections on how artistic practice adapts to, reflects on, and documents the conditions of existential threat, in the context of which dance emerges as a method of processing ongoing traumagenic circumstances and the means of resistance. It includes dance films by Dmytro Zakharov, Danyil Zenkin, Svitlana Oleksiuk, Olha Kebas, Yana Shevchenko & Dmytro Abalmasov, Yaroslav Kainar, Lesia Prusova, Olena Vakhrameieva, Yeva Voloshyna, Valeria Koptseva, and Yaroslav Korotkov.

The program was curated by Stanislava Ovchinnikova (UA/FI) and implemented with the support of Kaunas Artists’ House, Lithuanian Dance Information Center, and Lithuanian Contemporary Dance Association. The film program “Moving in Mayhem” was curated in collaboration with Let The Body Speak archive.

Photo documentation: Gražvydas Jovaiša / Kaunas Artists’ House

© Stanislava Ovchinnikova, 2016 -