Born 1963 in Birsk, Russia. Lives and works in Kyiv since 1980.
In 1986 graduated from Kyiv Institute of Esthetics and Design, from 1984 to 1986 studied at Yulia Ukader's sculpture studio.
Since 1989 he is a member of "Honchary (Potters)" creative union, based in Kyiv.
Olena Blank's works are in private collections in Europe, Russia and the United States.
"I am scared of unknown places and foreign countries. I am used to my apartment, my cats, this sky and this land. I want to live here and do what I am doing here. It's good for me."
Olena Blank
"What Olena Blank is creating is impossible to characterize through banal craft affiliation. Her work is a great example of well-known technologies in hands of an intelligent, talented and deeply sensual person transforming into a mysterious game, a labyrinth, that you wouldn't want to leave."
Pavlo Makov
"Thinking of Olena Blank's place in contemporary art I clearly understood that she is a tuning-fork."
Oleksiy Tytarenko
"Olena Blank is one of the few artists that conscientiously ignore "market relations" and despite all the obstacles remain committed to pure art."
Alla Botanova
Main exhibitions
2012
Dominant, within the Parallel program of ARSENALE 2012, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2011
The Ground, Cherkasy Art Museum, curated by Pavlo Gudimov.
Logs, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Feel! Abstract Art vs Contemporary Music, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2010
Women in Mini, gallery Bottega, curated by Natalia Filonenko
2009
Sleep, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Miniart, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Modifikuotos Vertybes, Vilnius
New Art from Ukraine, Ya Gallery art center project at ARTVILNIUS 09, Vilnius
2008
In Four Rooms, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2007
Beauty is Beautiful, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2003
Asia, Miniatures and Meditations, gallery Ya Design, Kyiv
Pictographic Lines, Centre for Contemporary Art Soviart, Kyiv
2002
Energy of Earth, National Artists' Association of Ukraine
2001
Catacombs, Centre for Contemporary Art Soviart, Kyiv, curated by Oleksiy Tytarenko
Personal exhibition, Triptykh gallery, Kyiv
2000
Opishnya-2000, National Symposium of Pottery and Ceramics
1998-1999
National Art Exhibition of the National Artists' Association of Ukraine
1997
Personal exhibition, gallery Honchary, Kyiv
1990
Symposium Sedniv-1990
1989
Ceramics exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakia
