Extrovert and Introvert. Diptych, Circa 2025

Olga Kirienko  

Olga Kirienko (b. 1981, USSR) is a Spain-based artist working with textile, installation, and drawing. Her practice explores systems of control, collective memory, and the tension between predetermined structures and lived experience.

Working primarily with handwoven tapestry, Kirienko approaches weaving not as a craft tradition but as a method of constructing images through repetition, constraint, and duration. Each work begins with a precise visual framework that is then translated into material form through a slow manual process. The resulting surfaces record time, labor, and the instability of fixed meanings.

Alongside textile works, she develops installations and sculptural objects that investigate fragility, displacement, and the mechanisms through which political and personal narratives are formed. Her projects often combine symbolic imagery with everyday materials, creating spaces where intimate experience intersects with broader social realities.

Kirienko studied Fine Art at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov and later specialized in tapestry at Casa Aymat in Catalonia. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the XI World Textile Art Biennial in Miami, as well as exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, and London.