Biography

Olga Lepri (1997) grew up in Brussels and studied Painting and Visual Arts at the Fine Art Academy of Venice (BFA and MA) graduating in 2021. In 2022 she graduates at the Luiss Buisness School’s Master Of Art in Rome.

The artist’s studio is currently situated in Umbria (Italy). Her practice is rooted in painting and drawing, also incorporating visual, historical and conceptual research as well as stop-motion animation.
Participating in various projects and exhibitions she collaborates with art platforms, galleries and museums. Recently she collaborated with Galleria Marignana ArteADDart Gallery and Galleria Giovanni Bonelli.

Besides her artistic role, she also collaborated with the Fine Art Academy of Venice for two years as a teaching assistant for the Artistic Anatomy course (2019-2021), with The Brooklyn Rail Magazine as an editorial assistant (2019) and with the Galerie Nathalie Obadia (2023).

Statement

My visual research unfolds at the threshold between physical and immaterial dimensions. I work by blending painting and drawing techniques, considering the graphic mark as foundational, both in research and in expression. The animated image and meticulous iconographic research are also integral to my process. Stratification, movement, and deconstruction become procedural languages through which complex emotional states are embodied and transformed.

Reflecting on the uncertain relationship between humanity, nature and reality is in my view an inevitable starting point for questioning the boundaries of the self within transformation, environment, and proprioception. The perpetual pursuit for escape, the impossibility of flight, or the experience of blindness act as metaphors for human tension between the sense limitation and the hope for transfiguration.

In particular, my practice draws inspiration from the symbolic and structural potential of organic forms, conceived through the merging of anatomies and morphologies, as in a pareidolic phenomenon. My engagement with anatomy is not descriptive, but perceptual and structural: a mutable sensitive territory where volume, gesture, and vision converge.