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Olga Buneeva

Lipetsk 1976

Olga Buneeva’s practice explores the fragile boundaries between memory

and oblivion, destruction and renewal. Rooted in collective memory

and family narratives, her work transforms trauma into living matter

through ceramic sculpture, painting, textiles, and digital art.

Ceramics remain the heart of her practice. Rejecting classical symmetry,

her sculptures inhabit a space between fossil and organism, ruin and

mutation. Imperfection, almost living surfaces, suggest continuous metamorphosis.

For Buneeva, art is not the pursuit of beauty or catharsis, but

a confrontation with trauma: not to erase, but to understand, traverse,

and share. Her works become vessels of collective memory and warnings

for the future.

Working exclusively with the coil-building technique, she hand-shapes

forms that oscillate between the human body and the natural world

— relics of both lived and inherited pasts. Originally trained as a philologist,

Buneeva translates the language of memory into a visual code.

Central to her practice is the concept of cryptomnesia: the overlap and

transformation of lived and transmitted memories, where truth and fiction

collapse into each other.

For Buneeva, memory is not an archive but a shifting, unstable organism

— one that distorts, resurfaces, and regenerates. This instability becomes

a source of form-making. Through a process akin to automatism, ancestral

fragments and testimonied sediment re-emerge, giving rise to

a visceral visual language.

Born in Lipetsk (USSR) in 1976, Olga Buneeva has been living and working in Milan since 2006.

Her artistic research unfolds through painting, ceramics, and digital media, exploring themes

such as the manipulation of identity, the decomposition of the body, and the transformation of

matter and memory.
Education

2019 – MA in Visual Arts, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan

2020 – Course in Ceramic Technologies, International School of Ceramic Art “Romano Ranieri,”

Deruta

2014 – Course in Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milan

2010–2013 – Painting Course, School of Applied Arts Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 – Tornare Terra/Return Earth, curated by Andrea Sanvittore, MAU – Museum of Urban Art,

Turin

“Tornate Terra” is my attempt to restore identity to an unnamed person at the Milan morgue — one of over

a thousand across Italy, they risked remaining forever unclaimed. Through art, I offered a symbolic burial,

inspired by kusozu, the Japanese practice portraying the body’s nine stages of decomposition, from wholeness

to dissolution and spiritual release.

2025 – Snezhok, curated by Andrea Sanvittore, Piovà Massaia (AT)

The exhibition “Snezhok” reflects my family’s history of exposure to nuclear radiation across three generations:

First, in 1954, when my grandmother and my three-year-old mother lived in a village near the Totsk

test site in the Soviet Union, where a nuclear bomb twice as powerful as Hiroshima’s was detonated; and

again in 1986, when our entire family — myself included — was caught in the Chernobyl disaster.

2024 – I Gioielli Malvagi, curated by Pietro Villanelli, Pergola (PU)

Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances

2024 – Fuori Salone, Milan Design Week, Milan

2023 – Liquid Sky, curated by Benedetta Spagnuolo, Galata Maritime Museum, Genoa

2023 – Terra!, curated by Adelinda Allegretti, Angelica Gallery, Rome

2022 – To the Ruins, anti-war performance, Roman Forum, Rome

2022 – Fuoco Cammina con Me, curated by Adelinda Allegretti, CAM – Casoria Contemporary

Art Museum, Casoria (NA)

2018 – Il Sesto Stato: la rappresentabilità del lavoro oggi, curated by Sergio Nannicola, University

of Milan-Bicocca, Milan

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