Artist Talk with Zhenya Oliinyk
Artist Talk with Zhenya Oliinyk
Zhenya Oliinyk

5.09 | 12:00

Zhenya Oliinyk creates illustrations for magazines, books, ads and social campaigns. As a cartoonist, she’s mostly interested in mental health, inequality, social fears and prejudice. Her graphic stories are periodically published in ‘Zaborona’ media. Among them: Hello, How Are You Doing? about online friendship, My Pants about everyday inequality, Nice People about dangerous routes for women, On Pylon about getting to love your body. During the artist talk, Zhenya will talk about her artistic method and thinking, work with different media, and the ways of transforming personal experience into stories that everyone finds interesting to read. 

Speaker:

Zhenya Oliinyk is an illustrator and cartoonist; she studied journalism and culturology. She worked with the Council of Europe, the United Nations, Amnesty International and The New Yorker. She had been creating weekly comics about feminism in the framework of Respect campaign. She has been working with ‘Zaborona’ since 2018.