Swan Emergency Residency Artist – Olena Siyatovska

At the beginning of December, we received the Ukrainian artist Olena Siyatovska, as a resident through our emergency residency position via SWAN. SWAN, Swedish Artist Residency Network works in collaboration with Artists at Risk to enable cultural workers from the Ukraine to spend a three month period in an artist residency in Sweden. Here you can read a description of Olena and her work.

Olena Siyatovska was born in the Czech Republic. She grew up in Dnipro, lives and works in Kyiv. She studied at the National University of Oles Honchar (Ukraine). Siyatovska focuses on social relations, human rights, and identity in the digital dimension. She works with new media, performance, video and installation. She received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Poland “Gaude Polonia” in 2019 and has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Germany. “I am Michelle” documentary film is the directing debut of Siyatovska. The project was supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands and the British Council Ukraine.