ola arent
b. 1995, based in Alnarp (Sweden) and Warsaw (Poland)
EDUCATION
2022 - now MSc Landscape Architecture
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
(Agroforestry, Urban Forestry, Outdoor environments for children, Forest ecology, Broadleaves)
2020 - 2023 BSc Landscape Architecture
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SGGW/Warsaw University of Life Sciences
2014 - 2017 BA (Hons) Fine Art & History of Art
Goldsmiths College, University of London,
AWARDS
2023 Special mention at the design competition "Bełchatów Mazury with Energy"
with a brief to plan post Bełchatów brown coal mine terrain
RESIDENCIES
08-11/2022 Malt AIR at Maltfabrikken in Ebeltoft, DK with Kunsthal Aarhus and The Danish Art Workshops
funded by the Danish Arts Foundation http://www.maltair.dk/artists
07/2022 Plein Air by Turów Coal Mine - Plener artystyczny Opolno Zdrój 2071 / Biuro Usług Post-artystycznych
08/2021 Plein Air by Turów Coal Mine - Plener artystyczny Opolno Zdrój 2071 / Biuro Usług Post-artystycznych
02-03/2019 High House Residency, Antony Gormley Studio House, Norfolk, UK
02-03/2018 High House Residency, Antony Gormley Studio House, Norfolk, UK
PROJECTS
11.2022 Imagine the Danish landscape of your dreams, Institut for Organisk Kunst, Copenhagen
2022 Killing trees with pre-industrial patterns (Skovsnogen Deep Forest Art Land, DK)
2022 Food forest and social garden design at Botildenborg, Malmö
2021 Activist weaving design workshops / Warszaty z projektowania tkaniny dwuosnowowej pod hasłem "Nie będzie nas, gdy zniknie las" (domy kultury) w ramach projektu EGAT
2021 Entomological walk / Spacer entomologiczny z Januszem Masłowskim / Konteksty / Sokołowsko
2021 Supermarket Museum website and illustrations / Muzeum Supermarketu Agro-Perma-Lab
2020 - 2022 Siekierki Community Garden / Siekierkowski Ogród Sąsiedzki- co-establisher, co-organiser
2020 Knitting against capitalism workshop parties
2017-2019 Unprofessional art journalism project barck floop
2018 paper mache animal making out of conservative newspapers workshop, ADA, Warsaw
2017 shit painting workshop and auction at goldsmiths college
TALKS
11/2022 Artist talk at Maltfabrikken, Denmark
11/2022 Artist talk at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
08/2022 Urban farming in Malmö, Solatorium, Warsaw
06/2022 Artist talk at SOTAN More-than-Human Ecologies symposium, organized by RIXC in Latvia at the RIXC Fields Residency and Irbene Radiotelescope
11/2021 Talk: "Children as natural playground architects" during "Sztuka edukacji. Ekosystem przyszłości" Conference crossing the fields of art, education and ecology at Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw
05/2021 "How to organise and utilise outdoor learning spaces and analogue teaching methods in children's education" in "Permaculture educator's toolkit", Biennale Warszawa
EXHIBITIONS
02/2020 Barck floop hq, warsaw, pervland with Gabrielle Bejani
06/2017 Goldsmiths Degree Show
09-12/2016 Kwadratowa, Warszawa, cutedolphi1995
05-09/ 2016 Saatchi Gallery, London, Journeys
05/ 2016 APT Gallery, London, Spa for Dogs
05/2016 Harts Lane Studios, London, Cluster A
02/ 2014 Saatchi Gallery, London, Art Prize for Schools