Oleg Podberezni (Ol Po) | Artist
Earlier works
Stability and movement, the monumental and the ephemeral — these opposing forces continuously flow into one another, shifting with every passing moment.
Sculpture
Sculpture serves to transform inner experience into symbolic form. The creative practice spans from the fragmented and atomic to the holistic and unified - striving to create objects of force and resonance. These works stand as a meditation on the experience of life itself - a reflection on the space between self and other, where everything remains in flux. Ambient environments become illusions cast upon our inner screens.
Selected sculptures:
Digital Czech Hedgehog. Metal, forging. 2019
The Book. Welded metal. 2007
The Diary. Forged metal. 2019
Kalevala project
Kalevala. Between Worlds is a visual invocation - an artistic act of reimagining origin stories through the lens of contemporary consciousness.
Selected works from the series:
Louhi. Pohjola. 2025; The Fire River. 2025; Sadness. Kalevala. 2025; Aino. 2025
The Wounded Angel
The Wounded Angel. Baltic Transit (Dedicated to Hugo Simberg). 2000
Created in 2000, this work became my humanistic manifesto.
Taking Finland's ultimate artistic symbol - Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel (1903) - as a foundation, I transposed its narrative into the harsh reality of the post-Soviet space. The photograph was shot in Kronstadt, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland.
This piece proved that art is capable of transforming a neighbor's national myth into a universal bridge of empathy, before which any state borders are powerless.