A multi-year collaborative thread at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art that foregrounds the conditions,
knowledge, and dreams of women in the North. Olga’s contributions move between archival research, encounters,
essays, exhibitions, and zines, including The Warmth of the Invisible Sun, devoted to Evgenia
Patsia and the Kola North.
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The Warmth of the Invisible Sun
Evgenia Patsia and the Kola North
An independent archive of contemporary art in Murmansk Oblast, launched by Olga within the Russian Art
Archive Network. Beginning with the art scene in Apatity, it brings together testimonies, artworks, documents,
and research spanning the mid-1970s through the 2000s.
Co-curated with Ekaterina Sharova at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. The exhibition
Climate Microchanges brought artists, researchers, local voices, and Indigenous knowledge into a shared
space for thinking about cultural and ecological change in the North.
Climate Microchanges · Natural History Museum, Oslo
Climate Microchanges · Natural History Museum, Oslo
About03 / 05
An independent curator, researcher, and educator based in Lyon.
Olga Shirokostup’s practice connects artistic research, archival work, and exhibition-making, with a focus on
memory, knowledge production, and cultural narratives in the European High North.
Born in Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula, Olga studied history at the Moscow School of Social and Economic
Sciences and graduated from the Chto Delat’ School of Engaged Art. Her work moves between long-term
institutional collaborations and independent research.
She is currently a curator within the European research project ARCA (Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities
as a Potential Resource for Climate Adaptation, 2024–2027). She was co-curator of Arctic Art Forum V at the
Natural History Museum in Oslo in 2026 and has been part of the Women in the North project, curated by Maria
Lind, since 2022.
Between 2021 and 2023, Olga served as Chief Curator of the
Radiance Centre for Contemporary Art in Apatity. Since 2023, she has
curated the Archive of Artistic Life in Zapolyarye within RAAN. From 2020 to 2024, she was a Research Course
Leader at Garage Academy. She is a recipient of a Robert Bosch
Stiftung grant and a former participant in the Frame Curatorial Exchange Programme.
Curator, ARCA European research project
Co-curator, Arctic Art Forum V, Oslo
OngoingArchive of Artistic Life in Zapolyarye, RAAN
