OLGA BARASHYKOVA , an artist from Kiev with an architectural background. Before the war she liked to paint realistic portraits and paintings with oil and acrylic, full of sunshine and a sense of peace. Now she is an active fighter against war, fascism and all kinds of violence. She expresses her active position through painting and journalism and takes part in artistic and journalistic projects in Hamburg. Lives temporarily in Heidgraben (Germany) EDUCATION 1994 - Kiev Civil Engineering Institute (now Kiev National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), specialty architect. PUBLICATIONS 2021 - interview with the online edition "Gordon" https://gordonua.com/bulvar/news/hudozhnica-barashikova-s-portretami-dmitriya-gordona-u-menya-poluchilas-skazochnaya-istoriya-kak-u-zolushki-1540472.html AWARDS January 2021 - two first places for portraits of Dmitry Gordon at an international competition “Golden Time Distant Festival (18-th season) in London. EXHIBITIONS Desember 2021 – took part in two collective exhibitions in a MODI Art&Wine Gallery in Kyiv Fabruary 2022 - took part in collective exhibition in a Central House of the Artist under the auspices of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine April 2022 - taking part in a collective online exhibition-auction “Save Us” in a KUNTSWERK Art Gallery (Varel, Germany). June 2022 - took part in a collective German-Ukrainian exhibition "Content > form. All this justifies thinking of” in the gallery MOM art space, Hamburg September 2022 - took part in a collective exhibition "24+1", at EPPENDORFER weg 235, Hamburg January 2023 - took part in a collective German-Ukrainian exhibition “Sense of war” as a curator and participant.