
Exploring Echoes: Olha Marusyn
October 2025
The artist and Performer Olha Marusyn is in HELLERAU for a 10 days residency research for her future installation-performance project “Plethora” that talks about infrastructure and love. She is working on choreography and at the same time documentation of the fictional scene that brings together Kyiv and Dresden in the year 1998.
Exploring Echoes is a residency cooperation between HELLERAU, Pochen Biennial (Chemnitz), Jam Factory Art Center (Lviv) and the Centre for Urban History (Lviv) and is dedicated to the artistic and discursive exploration of local and transregional interdependencies within the cultural landscapes between Germany and Ukraine.
Biography

Olha Marusyn is an artist and performer, who lives and works in Ukraine. Her work is primarily the choreography of the event, making use of a variety of mediums, including text, film, dance, painting and installation. She is interested in temporality and politics of the art production process, while working with memory, personal mythology, replication and reenactment. She has a graphic design education and was a book design teacher at Lviv National Academy of Arts until 2020.
