Olena Golub


Olena Golub ; was born December 25, 1951 is a Ukrainian contemporary artist, collage artist, painter, art critic, and member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine ; member of Hungarian Electrographic Art Association. She is a curator and participant of many art projects, national and international. Her works have been exhibited in several countries. Her works exhibited in countries: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium South Korea, Poland, Austria, Hungary and other. Some of her art works are in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Pannonhalma Archabbey, Hungary and other.

Biography

Olena Golub was born on December 25, 1951 in Kyiv, in Soviet Ukraine, to an intellectual family. Her parents acted on stage as a singers before her father, Yevgen Golub, became a journalist and her mother, Zinaida Morozova, became an official. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1974, department of biophysics. She worked for some time as an engineer, but dreamed of becoming a professional artist. In the 1970s she refused to join the Arts' Academy, against creating compositions in the spirit of Soviet ideology. Thus, she took private drawing lessons and graduated from the Institute of Journalistic Skill in 1986, Faculty Artists press.
She worked as an illustrator in magazines, an editor at the publishing house, etc. She is author of more than 100 publications on contemporary art. Her husband is culturologist Peter Yakovenko and her daughter is photographer Anna Golub. Her son Andrey Yakovenko is a designer. She lives in Kiev and frequently travels abroad with exhibitions.

Creativity

Her career began with opposition to the Socialist Realism in a circle of underground artists, when she was writing in the style of Expressionism. Avant-garde young people in Kiev founded an association, the Rukh Movement, in which writers, scientists, and artists gathered. In 1977 they organized an exhibition with artists Yuri Kosin, Nik Niedzelski, Mikola Trehub, Vudon Baklitsky, Alexander Kostetsky, Olena Golub, Nicholas Zalevsky and others.
Her memories about underground time and artists persons were printed in the book Olena Golub. The Bright and Gloomy days of Underground Artists. Kyiv, Published House “Antiquary”, 2017,
Her artworks was inspired by Ukrainian avant-garde in the beginning of the 20th century, particularly by Wassily Kandinsky
The second surge of lifting art by Olena Golub is associated with the revival of civic activities and the advent of private galleries, where she began to exhibit new works. Her paintings such as "Aunt", "Fisherman", "Chupa-chups, or the illusion of equality" increased the social-critical motif with characteristic of Ukrainians humor.
The second surge of lifting art by Olena Golub associated with the revival of civic activities and the advent of private galleries, where she began to exhibit new works. In her paintings such as «Aunt», «Fisherman», «Chupa-chups, or the illusion of equality» increased social-critical motif with characteristic for Ukrainians hints of humor.
. 2018
Since 2003, Lena began to create photo installations using computer technology. Art critic Nina Sayenko has written:
Since 2003, Lena began to create photo installations using computer technology. She frequently returned to human problems and reworked historical figures. Today, Golub continues working with new ideas, encompassing globalization in her work.
She has found considerable opportunities to create own visual language using digital technology and based on «mental structures» as she says.
A trend accentuated on digital technology in the arts she realized in the «G. V. Kh.» - group: Golub, Vysheslavsky, Kharchenko. Their project «Digital yard № 3» was shown in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The Hungarian art critic Gabor Pataki noted:

«She calls her method as «narrative constructivism», in which you can see the embodiment of the ideas of the photomontage discoverers Rodchenko, Klutsis and Lissitzky. But while her predecessors constructed their works believing in a world that would soon become better and fairer, Golub can only acknowledge all these ideas as unsuccessful. »

Awards

Award-certificate of merit of «Matrices 2017» - International exhibitions of small electrographic artworks, Budapest,Hungary,2017
Award of «Matrices 2012» - International exhibitions of small electrographic artworks,Budapest, Hungary,2012

Exhibitions

As art critic Olena Golub explores several directions.