Olga Goldina Hirsch - Fine artist.
- Isobel Arden
- Jul 24, 2025
- 5 min read
Updated: Feb 3
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Meet Olga Goldina Hirsch -the fine artist behind Olga Hirsch Art.
Olga Goldina Hirsch, MA FA, is a London‑based artist whose exuberant mixed‑media canvases are equal parts memory‑mining and cosmic confession. Born in Moscow and professionally forged at the City & Guilds of London Art School (MA, 2018), she merges the rigour of Russian conceptual tradition with a painterly sense of childlike wonder.
In the interview between Mark and Olga, Olga shared her fantasy cultural year. Expect surprises, anecdotes, and conversational detours.
Each painting is a multilayered palimpsest – literal layers of canvas, spray, screen print and metaphors – that tenderly excavates the “obliterated memories” of her family’s Soviet past From black voids she teases glowing specks of recollection, until the white canvas breathes hope and future. Her work is a celebratory alchemy: memory + metaphor + mood.
Olga's art is popping up in some memorable places. She earned runner‑up in the 2022 TEBBS International Art Prize and joined Paris’s Taylor Foundation circle. Her pieces strutted along London Underground stations (Pimlico, Hyde Park Corner) via the Art Below programme and hit Broadway Plaza in New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve and the following June. You’ll also find her work in the Copelouzos Museum (Athens), Vladivostok’s Museum of Contemporary Art, London’s Brooklyn Art Library, SaatchiArt, and numerous private collections across Europe, North America and Russia.
Olga's portfolio and biography:
With a pedigree stacked with avant‑garde ancestry – a grandmother who worked with famous architects, and a futurist writer grandfather – Olga weaves intergenerational creativity into every brushstroke.
In her own words ...
"Yes. I grew up in a family with strong artistic leanings and traditions. My grandfather was a futurist writer, a friend of the Burliuk brothers, and a journalist who became famous for his experimental novel trilogy “The Yellow Devil” and for his documentary reportage “My Chinese Diaries,” written in the early 1920s. Both made him famous.
My grandmother worked as assistant in the architectural bureaus of Moisei Ginzburg and the Vesnin Brothers, the founding fathers of Russian Constructivism. She also met with Le Corbusier in 1928, and I still remember her stories. Many years later my grandmother recognised some of her 1920s architectural drawings exhibited at the “Moscow-Paris” art show which took place in June-October 1981, at the State Pushkin Museum of Arts (and at the Pompidou Centre of Arts in Paris prior to that).
She gave me my first art lessons. As a child of eight, I could unmistakably identify whether the artworks were painted by Matisse, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Fernand Léger, or Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani, with his tragic life and his moving artistic destiny, was, indeed, special to me.
The relatives on my father’s side were surgeons, performing pianists, composers and musicologists. My grandfather, who was a professional surgeon, had also tried his hand as an amateur artist in the days of his youth: he even designed movie posters to supply his meagre student income!
Nowadays, as I look at my little niece Margarita, I grow more and more convinced that the art gene runs in our family. We have recently started our collaboration on a new series of works. Although Margarita is only 4, I am amazed at her ability, her absolute freedom and sense of colour. She has recently been working on her first large canvas, 140 x 160 cm, and she managed the composition completely by herself. She was simultaneously amazed and delighted with the result!
Nevertheless, when I was a child, I wanted to become a scientist. Even though art and literature were part of my home upbringing. So, on completing my secondary school education, I applied to a medical school and began to study science, which is also a creative discipline, if approached properly."
Infusing vibrant hues and metaphysical bursts into abstract spaces, she captures life’s rhythms, inner trauma and reclaimed joy. Olga is one witty, reflective, first‑rate creative who doesn’t take herself too seriously, but whose work sings profoundly about memory, freedom, and a soul armed with aerosol and acrylic.
Video Summary
In their lively conversation, Mark and Olga wandered through a world of art, architecture, and imagination. Olga named the Guggenheim in Bilbao as her favourite building and pictured herself sketching nearby, a freshly squeezed drink at her side.
Mark then proposed a globe-trotting commissioned art project: Olga would travel to underground train stations worldwide, creating site-inspired artworks funded by a fictitious wealthy Spanish foundation. With TED Talks, a TV series, and a book deal on offer, the only twist was a musical constraint—Olga picked piano music for the journey.
Their conversation touched on thought-provoking musical performances like John Cage’s 4'33" and the rhythmic mesmerism of Steve Reich. When dreaming up a trip to New York, Olga imagined seeing Anna Pavlova dance Giselle, adding a poetic flourish to her cultural wish list.
Together, they “visited” the Waldorf Astoria in New York and explored digital art in Tokyo, even stepping inside Gustav Klimt’s gilded universe. They envisioned experiencing Pre-Raphaelite works in VR—a blend of tradition and technology.
Some of Olga's work:
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