Timi O

Timi O (Olga) is a Moscow-born contemporary artist now living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. Born in 1990, she graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University and spent many years defending human rights in Russian and international courts. Drawing was a constant companion throughout her legal career, a quiet practice of reflection that eventually became a full-time vocation. In 2022 she shifted her life entirely toward art, bringing the same discipline and depth of inquiry to her studio practice that once guided her legal work.

Olga creates fragmentary, light-infused compositions that reveal the overlooked beauty of ordinary moments. Working with charcoal, ink, chromatographic pigments, and other “living" materials, she captures the play of light and shadow so that each piece changes subtly with angle and illumination. Her works often isolate gestures, forms, or fleeting emotions from their original context, allowing viewers to rediscover their complexity and to experience their own, unique response. For the artist, painting is a voice among many, an open dialogue rather than a single, fixed interpretation.

Her recent exhibitions include 4 Creative Artists and Art Bureau 15 (CC Dorćol, Belgrade, 2024), participation in the Belgrade auction Patriki Belgrade, and the residency program ART CAMP (Belgrade, 2024). Upcoming shows include Streets at Deep Reverie, Novi Sad, and The Limits of What Is Allowed at Space “Pravda?" in Moscow (both 2025). She has also collaborated on cover designs for musicians Sergey Geokchaev (La valse de Re La) and Bibrocircus (Дом), and her work is featured in Victo's book You Can Become Anyone You Choose (2025).

Through her art, Olga offers viewers a pause in the flow of information, a chance to notice light, shadow, and the quiet resonance of their own perceptions.