• Residency period: Summer 2025
  • Individual Residency

Alisa Oleva lives and works in London. She is a walking artist working in the spaces of the city, exploring urban choreography and urban archaeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movement scores, personal and intimate encounters, parkour, walkshops, soundwalks and audio walks. She was awarded Another Route fellowship in 2023 and has recently participated in the exhibition Cities of the Night at RIBA. She has participated in art residencies in Mariupol, Dnipro, Minsk, Brussels, Esch-sur-Alzette and Taipei, among others.

Alisa holds an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently doing a PhD at the University of East London. 

Website: olevaalisa.com
Instagram: @alisaoleva

Alisa Oleva, Repeat, a walking performance, part of Work Hard Play Hard, 2019, Minsk. Photo: Dzina Zhuk
Alisa Oleva, Walking lab, commissioned by Artsvit, Dnipro, 2018. Photo: Vita Popova
Alisa Oleva, Research residency, commissioned by Izolyatsia and hosted by Platform TU, Mariupol, 2019. Photo: Maria Pronina
Alisa Oleva, Sounds Like Home, walking and listening performance, Leeds-Kamianske-Santiago, 2024. Photo: Lizzie Coombes
Alisa Oleva, Soft parkour session, London, 2021. Photo: Mil Vukovic-Smart
Alisa Oleva, Night Walk, 2018. Photo: Alisa Oleva