Olena Golub

Award of «Matrices 2017» - International exhibitions of small electrographic artworks, Budapest, Hungary,2017

Award of «Matrices 2012» - International exhibitions of small electrographic artworks, Budapest, Hungary,2012

Since 2003, Lena began to create photo installations using computer technology. Art critic Nina Sayenko has written: «Turning to contemporary computer technologies, the artist, as is her custom, pungently felt the pulse and rhythm of the time. By confronting and comparing various historical photographic materials she is in the process of solving philosophical problems of existence itself. The new series features the transformation of family traditions and generational ties along with the global transformation of conscience in material reviewing the totalitarian past (Yes and No, The Totalitarian Ballade, and Recipient Unknown). Olena Golub calls upon us to return to human problems and perception of the human essence. In her works the fates of historical persons (Stalin, Hitler, etc) are closely interlaced with personages from family albums, who act together in the historical context. They pose questions about everybody’s connection with and responsibility for everything that ever happened or is happening now (Who to Be With? and He, She, They...). Today Olena Golub is on a new turn in her creative flight. One cannot but wish to become one of the characters she has created, the Yellow Hare, rising high above our omnivorous globalization and broad expansion of the mass media and fill oneself with the sense of freedom and independence.»

Since 2003, Lena began to create photo installations using computer technology. She frequently returned to human problems and reworked historical figures. Today, Golub continues working with new ideas, encompassing globalization in her work.

Olena Golub (Ukrainian: Олена Євгенівна Голуб ); was born December 25, 1951 is a Ukrainian contemporary artist, painter, art critic, and member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 2003); member of Hungarian Electrographic Art Association (since 2019). She is a curator and participant of many art projects, national and international. Her works have been exhibited in several countries. Her works exhibited in countries: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium South Korea, Poland, Austria, Hungary and other. Some of her art works are in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Pannonhalma Archabbey, Hungary and other.

Olena Golub was born on December 25, 1951 in Kyiv, in Soviet Ukraine, to an intellectual family. Her parents acted on stage as a singers before her father, Yevgen Golub, became a journalist and her mother, Zinaida Morozova, became an official. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1974, department of biophysics. She worked for some time as an engineer, but dreamed of becoming a professional artist. In the 1970s she refused to join the Arts' Academy, against creating compositions in the spirit of Soviet ideology. Thus, she took private drawing lessons and graduated from the Institute of Journalistic Skill in 1986, Faculty Artists press.