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Olka* Schok (Aleksandra Kubuschok) is a Polish born visual artist based in Strasbourg.
Trained in sculpture (Master Degree, Sculpture Studio of Prof. Jerzy Fober, University of Upper Silesia, Cieszyn, 1998), her path moved from textile experiments in adolescence to formal art studies, then to movement and performance.
After teaching visual arts she joined the Gospel Art Studio in Munich (Dance / Mime / Street Theatre, 2002) and arrived in France in 2003, where she deepened her dance practice at the Centre Chorégraphique de Strasbourg and the Centre International des Rencontres Artistiques, performing occasionally at the Opéra du Rhin.
Her first exhibitions in France included St’ART Contemporary Art Fair (Strasbourg, 2004), where she was among the top ten winners of the Young Artists Trophy and presented her early batiks.
In 2006 she obtained the Visual Artist–Intervenor diploma (CFPI**), recognized by DRAC***, and committed to cultural projects that broaden access to art for distant audiences.
In 2020 the pandemic interrupted many activities and sparked a new direction: the development of her #FilsFReeTechnique, a material-led method that transforms reclaimed and resistant threads into poetic, abstract compositions on layered paper.
In 2021 My Artistic Approach was honored with a Merit Mention from the Jury of the Luxembourg Museum as part of the Luxembourg Art Prize.
Olka acts as an art choreographer of quiet staging : she composes small, scenographic surfaces where dancing threads become the organic compositions and negative black space becomes immobility.
Her silent spectacles ask viewers to slow down, look closely, and let the imagination dance, rediscovering sparks of other worlds often lost in daily life.
Discover The E-Collection — commissions & provenance info on each piece.
* Olka - in Polish diminutive of Aleksandra
** CFPI - Cértificat de Formation des Plasticiens Intervenant - Certifiat for the training of visual artists as art educators
*** la Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles -the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs
