Oleg Soulimenko

Oleg Soulimenko is a performance artist living and working in Vienna. He studied engineering construction and later physical theatre and dance. Oleg Soulimenko co-founded the Saira Blanche Theatre, which developed a strong and provocative practice of improvisation. In recent years, he has been working with choreography, often incorporating a variety of objects, both readymade and specially created through which our bodies can transform, lose and extend. A poetic, detailed and personalised approach is important in his work. In Vienna, he collaborates with institutions such as brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, WUK performing arts and Wiener Festwochen. He has presented his work internationally and across Austria at festivals and institutions including Performa in New York, Theaterfestival Impulse in Germany, Kaaitheater in Brussels, Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, Baltic Circle in Helsinki and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Oleg Soulimenko collaborates with artists such as Alfredo Barsuglia, Markus Schinwald, Lisa Nelson, Frans Poelstra, Rosemarie Poiarkov, Franz Hautzinger and many others.

Works at brut

• Roll Over and Over and Over (2025)
• Immortality Day (2021)
• BEAUTY OF MESS, TRASH AND UNKOWN DESIRES (2021, with Jasmin Hoffer)
• Swimming Pool (2018)
• LOSS (2017, mit Alfredo Barsuglia und Jasmin Hoffer)

2007 to 2015

• MEET THE SHAMAN (2015)
• Good Night, Vienna! Eine mystische Erlebnisreise durch Wien (2014)
• Made in Austria (2013)
• Old Chaos, New Order (2012)
• MADE IN RUSSIA (2012)
• MADE FOR RUSSIA (2010)
• Wien-Moskau (2010)
• Walking Chakras (2010)
• Working Class Hero (2008)