Olga Grotova (b. 1986, Saint-Petersburg) is an artist based in London. Grotova takes family history, landscapes and experience of displacement as starting points for multi-layered paintings, videos and performances. Her multidisciplinary practice connects repressed narratives to ecosystems through the contemporary female body, movement, text and mark making. The paintings are made using traces of studio debris and plants with cameraless photographic processes. In Grotova’s installations ambivalent historical and political material is re-established and re-articulated in the present.
Grotova graduated from MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. Previous exhibitions include: Centrala (Birmingham), 2019; Mimosa House (London), 2018; Osnova (Moscow) and others.
