My name is Olena Lemberska.
I am a Ukrainian photographer, born in Ukraine, in the city of Kyiv, where I live and work now.
My main profession is a doctor.
Education.
2022: portrait and art photography course under the supervision of curator Anna Melnikova.
2021: photography course at the Ihor Chekachkov Academy of Modern Photography.
2021: modern photography course at the school of conceptual and art photography "MYPH" by Serhii Melnichenko.
2020 - 2021: 4 author's courses of Dmytro Bogachuk at the Kyiv School of Photography.
During 2021, she took part in two creative residencies in Lithuania, where she worked under the supervision of curators from Ukraine (Anna Melnikova) and Lithuania (head and curator of the Klaipeda branch of the Union of Photographic Artists of Lithuania, Darius Vaichekauskas):
- June 2021 - Klaipeda;
- September 2021 - Nida.
Exhibitions.
2023, September - group exhibition "Light in the Dark - Photography of MYPH (Ukraine)", recipient of a 2023 Artist Seed Grant from ArtPrize where the exhibition will debut in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
https://www.artprize.org/artists#15643
https://www.cultureverse.org/events#calendar-8101bcca-3efe-47b4-9ff4-5902e57b0312-event-lmf6wpuo
2023, September - group exhibition "MYPH in stock", "Warehouse No. 5", Cherkasy, Ukraine.
2023, June - July: group exhibition "New MYPHologies", Kharkiv, Ermilov Center, Ukraine.
2023, May - June 2023: group exhibition "And there will be silence...", Zaporizhzhia, Regional Youth Center with the support of the NGO "Kultprozhektor", Ukraine.
2023, March - group exhibition "War", Vitrinemainz gallery, Mainz, Germany.
2023, February - May: group exhibition "Whispers and screams. Voices of Ukrainian female photographers", FOTODOK gallery, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2022, November - December: group exhibition "MYPH. MYKOLAIVSK YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHY" in Dimchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022, October: group exhibition "Unbreakable" Art Association "Kyivphotos-Hall 2012", Mykola Gogol Kyiv Library, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022, September: personal exhibition "Renaissance" in the Très Français art space, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022, June: group exhibition at the international Art Compensa Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2022, April: Group exhibition "In the Name of Freedom" at Chausee 36 Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2022, March: group exhibition "SOUTIEN DE PLATEFORME 10 À L'UKRAINE" in support of Ukraine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2022, January: two group exhibitions of art photography at MODI Art&Wine Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
October 2021: The Secret Life of Color Group Exhibition at Praxis Gallery & Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA.
2021, September: group exhibition "NEW EYE" at NU ART gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021, October - November: The group exhibition "Trieste Photo Fringe 2021" was exhibited during the Trieste Photo Days festival, Italy.
Publications.
A series of works "Fragments" in the online magazine Kiosk Democracy:
https://kioskofdemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/03/fragments-lena-lemberska-ukraine.html?
My series "Fragments" in War and Peace from Artdoc Photography Magazine:
https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/war-and-peace
"Photo Elysée magazine" publication about the exhibition in Lausanne in support of Ukraine:
https://elysee.ch/2022/03/soutien-de-plateforme-10-a-lukraine/
"Our worst six months. Ten visual reflections from Ukrainian photographers" by Zaborona:
https://zaborona.com/nashi-najgirshi-piv-roku-desyat-vizualnyh-refleksij-vid-ukrayinskyh-fotografiv/
Ugallery (information platform about contemporary art) is dedicated to the release of the book "MYPH / Young Mykolaiv Photography":
Publication in the British online gallery Open Eye Stories:
http://openeyestories.org.uk/portfolio_page/fragments-by-olena-lemberska
"Naked, broken, but we hold on." Olena Lemberska and her project "Eleven", which organizes the chaos of war,
in "Levels of Censorship" from Zaborona:
https://zaborona.com/olena-lemberska-ta-yiyi-proyekt-odynadczyat-u-rivni-czenzury/
Edition.
The book "MYPH / Young Mykolaiv Photography", RODOVID publishing house. The book, which presents 60 Ukrainian authors, included three of my photos.