Olga Karika is a Ukrainian artist who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUBA).

Olga’s primary medium is oil painting, and in recent years, she has focused on working directly on metal, treating it as an active part of the artwork. She often leaves parts of the metal exposed, allowing its reflective surface to interact with light, space, and the viewer. Her paintings combine blurred botanical forms, floral compositions, and abstract landscapes through layered, rubbed, and impression-like brushwork.

Olga’s practice explores the fragile nature of perception and memory. Rather than depicting flowers or landscapes literally, she uses them as traces of something remembered — forms that appear and dissolve somewhere between recognition and abstraction.

In leaving parts of the metal untouched, Olga allows each work to remain open to its surroundings. Light moves across the exposed surface, reflections shift with the viewer, and the image changes depending on the space and moment in which it is seen. Her work therefore exists between image and material, presence and reflection, memory and the present moment.