Olesia Kvitka is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Ukraine, currently based in Vienna. Her practice explores how technological systems — including biofeedback, EEG, and generative AI — can be reimagined as sensory and emotional tools for connecting with the body, memory, and more-than-human environments.
Rooted in a personal experience of displacement, her work engages with transformation, co-creation, and embodied knowledge. Kvitka creates research-based audiovisual works, interdisciplinary performances, psychogeographic walks, and web-based rituals that bridge the digital and physical realms.
Recent projects include Biophony: Dancing Nature (MolinoLab, Spain, supported by the Goethe-Institut) and Neurographia (Ars Electronica), which explored EEG-based visual composition in dialogue with Butoh performance. Her AR-based project Vienna ArtScape, realized with Artivive and supported by BMKÖS (the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport), transformed street graffiti into a generative, site-specific storytelling format.
Across all her works, Kvitka weaves together signals from the nervous system, plants, places, and code — composing fragile ecologies of perception that invite deep attention, slow presence, and poetic interaction between the human, the natural, and the algorithmic. |
