Olena Potočnik

Olena Potočnik was born on December 21, 1983, in the city of Gorlovka, Ukraine. She came to Slovenia in 2005. She has attended several painting courses in Ljubljana since then, and as a self-taught painter began to paint her own art. She had two exhibitions in collaboration with Simona Kokalj. The first one was during spring of 2013 in Vžigalica Gallery and the second one was during the winter of the same year in the Tobačna 001 cultural center. Both exhibitions were for charity purposes. After those two exhibitions, she started working in digital art. First with 2D and then with 3D. During the years 2014 and 2016, she occasionally collaborated with a company TSS Produkcija d.o.o. https://www.tensquarestudio.co... and created digital content for their projects. In 2015, she enrolled in CGTarian online classes https://www.cgtarian.ru as a CG generalist (3D). She enrolled at Academy of Visual Arts AVA, Ljubljana https://www.ava.si in the academic year 2017/2018. During 2018 and 2020, she participated in group exhibitions; AVA10, AVA11 and AVA12. She is currently finishing her first year of postgraduate study at the AVA. After graduation, she wants to work professionally in 3D computer art, either by making video games, making augmented reality and virtual reality content, implementation of real-time interactive projects, etc.