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Kolesova studied documentary film and photography in St. Petersburg, interactive media at CalArts, and experimental film and new media at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Their work has been supported by the Karl Hofer Scholarship (2023), the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2024), and the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship (2025–2027). They were a participant in the Goldrausch Artist Program in Berlin (2024), a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg (2025), a resident at Helsinki International Artist Programm (2025), and a fellow at Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck (2026).
Kolesova’s work has been exhibited at the Fotogalerie Wien in Vienna (2026), Neun Kelche in Berlin (2025), HIAP in Helsinki (2025), Brücke Museum in Berlin (2025), Fotograf Festival in Prague (2024), Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin (2024), nGbK in Berlin (2023), EMOP Berlin (2023), HYBRID Biennale in Dresden (2022), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2021), and the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin (2021).
Beneath my artistic approach lies my personal experience of the Soviet Union's collapse and its aftermath. I reflect on socio-historical dynamics, such as the role of social media in military conflicts, state violence, technologies of propaganda, manipulation of collective memories, and the formation of national narratives. I am keen on understanding how these dynamics interrelate and influence our perception of "true" and "false." Although I escaped the traps of a manipulated past and present, its remnants linger in my personality and compel me to meticulously deconstruct their influence.
Intrigued by the multiplicity of realities, I believe that the personal and political, as well as the personal and collective, are inherently intertwined. In my works, I seek out gaps demonstrating that diverse perceptions, experiences, and memories can coexist and serve as a tool to demythologize manipulative narratives pushing for "unity."
2024