POLINA OSIPOVA



Polina Osipova (b. 1998, based in UK) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the intersection of craft and the archaeology of collective memory.

Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of her female ancestors, she reflects on inherited traditions through textiles and archival family photographs. These materials become a means to trace connections between past and future—both temporal and timeless—creating portals that bridge the digital age with the analogue.

Recurring photographic motifs in her work evoke the presence of untold narratives embedded within her family archives. Working across textile, sculpture, wearable forms, performance, and photography, Osipova conceives these mediums as intrinsically interconnected, forming an organic and unified body of work.

The wearable sculptures and objects she creates function simultaneously as autonomous artworks and as garments activated through performance, ultimately becoming part of an evolving personal mythology.




SELECTED WORKS




Polina Osipova, Arrow from archives, 2025, archival family photo hand printed on textile, freshwater pearls, stainless steel wire, pressed cupboard and wool, 20 1/8 x 5 1/8 in Polina Osipova, Toys: Bow, 2025, plastic clay, raw amethyst stones, linen thread, stainless steel armature and mica powder, 18 1/8 x 9 in Polina Osipova, Crystallised Memories, 2025, canvas, retouched archival family photos printed on textile, felt, agate chips, labrodarite chips and quartz chips, 32 1/4 x 18 1/2 in Polina Osipova, Birthplace (Roots) 1 and 2, 2024, wool, hand printed self portrait and peony on textile, pressed cardboard and freshwater pearls, 18 7/8 x 9 7/8 in 48 x 25 c Polina Osipova, Peony seeds from my babushka’s garden, 2024, babushka's archive photo and peony handprinted on vintage textile and freshwater pearls, 39 3/8 x 15 3/4 in Polina Osipova, Braids of Remembrance, 2025, canvas, wool, retouched archival family photos printed on textile, felt, freshwater natural pearls and plastic clay, 61 3/4 x 21 1/4 in Polina Osipova, Heart Blossom, 2023, metallic chrome textile and wire, 15 3/4 x 13 3/4 in Polina Osipova, Crystallized Heart, 2022, vintage embroidered cloth and glass beads, 8 5/8 x 7 1/2 in 22 x 19 cm


INSTALLATION VIEWS




Installation view, NADA NYC, 2026, Polina Osipova: Wings For Flying to the Ancestor Stars Installation view, A living Inheritance, curated by Yana Rovner, 2026, JOHS NY Polina Osipova: "A Living Inheritance" at JOHS NYC


EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS








CV


Awards
2021 Creative Activism Awards, Cultures of Resistance Foundation, Brazil


Solo Exhibitions
2026   “A Living Inheritance” JO-HS NYC, NYC, USA
2021  "Digital mythology" Cothinkers Annual Prize, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK


Perfomances
2025 “Exhibition 01”, Sozanni Fondazione Paris, Paris, France
2024 "Rememberance of Things Future",  Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK

Screenings
2024 "Kinetic Machines", Sala Equis Cinema, Madrid, Spain

Selected  Group Exhibitions
2025
“Amorce - Paper, Index, Trace”, Third Born Gallery, CDMX, Mexico
“Happened to the Heart”, JO-HS Gallery, NYC, USA
2024
"The Dream", International photography festival PhEst, Monopoli,  Italy
"Rememberance of Things Future", Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
2023
“ArtlLab Eyeland”, International photography festival PhEst, Taranto, Italy
“Beyond”, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
“Өмә”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien x NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2022
“MacArthur Park”, Cromwell Place, London, UK
“Fashion for Bank robbers”, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany
“Still Happening”, Kupfer Project, London, UK
“*******”, Tilde Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Yellow Fields, Blue Skies” , Pushkin House, London, UK
2021
"Digital mythology" Cothinkers Annual Prize, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
“5x5=26”, presented by Institut and the Hermitage Foundation UK, UK
“Ay”, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia