INNA OLEFF

 

About 

 

Inna is an interior designer and photographer based in Germany. She was born and grown up in a family where all the women have been endowed with talent for painting. Her father was passionate about photography, which undoubtedly influenced the choice of her future interests.  

For many years, Inna worked as an interior designer in Russia, and after moving to Germany in 2010, she joined one of the most famous German furniture companies as a designer. Since 2018, a serious interest in photography has prompted Inna to delve deeper into the history of art and photography in the Free University of Berlin, and her photo camera became a part of the life.

 

Education

  • Free University of Berlin | Certificate Program “Art in the context of photography”   
  • Moscow Rodchenko Art School | “Creating an author's photo book”
  • Photography course by A. Manovceva 
  • Moscow International Design School

Exhibitions & Publications

  • Solo Exhibition | Project “Facets of Loneliness”, Miras Art Gallery, Ufa, 2022
  • Publication | Rampa-RB, Ufa, 2022
  • Photo book | “Facets of Loneliness”, 2022
  • Group Exhibition | Miras Art Gallery, Ufa, 2024

Artist statement

 

"I have always been fascinated in exploring the relationships of monumental history reflected in old painting, architecture, music, and literature with the world of living emotions and states. Birth, growth, maturity, death - all this is present in works of art. But between these extremes there is a life full of love, joy, happiness, despair, hope and hopelessness. These states are so abstract that photography becomes, for me, a form of visualization and transmission of my observations and reflections".