Ola Lanko is a transdisciplinary artist. From photography to immersive multisensorial installations, Lanko’s practice consists of layered structures weaving together an intuitive and rational approach. Over the past 10 years, she has built a continuous, ever-changing practice employing mediums of photography, moving image, sound, sensorial design, and performance.
Ola combines an analytical way of thinking with a playful and free-flowing setting in the classroom. She believes such a combination creates a fruitful learning environment to explore ideas and experiment with visual methodologies to arrive at a deeper understanding of the medium of photography. Ola invites an attentive and responsible attitude to the process of looking, nourishing a critical attitude towards images, and raising awareness about the place photography takes in our lives and the power to impact it carries within.
She graduated from the photography departments at both the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2012) and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2010) and received a Master’s degree in sociology at the National University of Kyiv (2007). In 2014, she was at HISK, a post-academic art institute in Gent, Belgium.
Her work has been shown in numerous art institutions such as FOAM, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Kunst Haus Wien (Vienna), Museo Amparo (México), and Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland). She was a resident at WIELS (Belgium) and other places across Europe. Her works are part of the collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, ING, KPMG, LUMC, as well as various private collections.