artist
author of the direction
author of the direction
Olga Stein
an experimental movement in art, where the main artistic material is a polychrome Phantom, an internal illusory phenomenon that arises in a person during the visual perception of an object.
Polyphantom-Art
Biography
This is not a classical vita — only a few biographical facts that have shaped my personality as a human being and as an artist.
July 3, 1971.
I was born and raised in Soviet Kazakhstan in 1971. When I was six months old, my mother left me in an orphanage. I never saw her again. Later, at the age of four, I was adopted by my step-uncle and his wife.
My childhood was full of contrasts — sometimes joyful and light, but mostly difficult. I often had to endure harsh treatment, beatings, and other psychological and physical punishments from my adoptive mother. I was the only child in the family, but not the loved one.
In 1988, I graduated from secondary school. It was then that my adoptive parents told me the truth about my origins. They admitted that they had adopted me only because Soviet social morality required it. Thus, I lost my family and home for the second time.
At 18, I moved to Russia and studied at the College of Culture and Theatre Arts in the city of Chelyabinsk.
1990 — first marriage. Move to Rostov-on-Don.
1991 — birth of my son, Roman.
1994 — divorce and the search for work.
From 1995 to 2012, my professional life was connected with advertising and marketing — and it was quite successful. It was in this field that I began to study the basics of graphic design, and the specifics of producing and placing radio and video advertisements.
2012 — marriage and move to Germany.
After the move and integration into a new culture, I finally had the opportunity to focus on self-development.
In 2020, I began private studies with a brilliant teacher — Nikolai Yuryevich Fedotov, a designer, publisher, and graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in easel painting.
Until 2024, I studied composition, drawing, painting, and color theory, combining practice with theoretical research on the great masters. I was drawn to the intellectual side of painting — the understanding of composition, the interaction of color and form.
Over time, I mastered the language of figurative painting in all its complexity and beauty. Along the way, I developed a deep love for color as an independent phenomenon, which led to the creation of Polyphantom-Art.
2025 — the birth of the first work in the Polyphantom-Art project series: “Mother.”
Color in painting became for me a separate world — rich, alive, and ever-changing — a world that I continue to explore.
This exploration gave rise to the projects “Extraction” and “The Presence of Absence.”
July 3, 1971.
I was born and raised in Soviet Kazakhstan in 1971. When I was six months old, my mother left me in an orphanage. I never saw her again. Later, at the age of four, I was adopted by my step-uncle and his wife.
My childhood was full of contrasts — sometimes joyful and light, but mostly difficult. I often had to endure harsh treatment, beatings, and other psychological and physical punishments from my adoptive mother. I was the only child in the family, but not the loved one.
In 1988, I graduated from secondary school. It was then that my adoptive parents told me the truth about my origins. They admitted that they had adopted me only because Soviet social morality required it. Thus, I lost my family and home for the second time.
At 18, I moved to Russia and studied at the College of Culture and Theatre Arts in the city of Chelyabinsk.
1990 — first marriage. Move to Rostov-on-Don.
1991 — birth of my son, Roman.
1994 — divorce and the search for work.
From 1995 to 2012, my professional life was connected with advertising and marketing — and it was quite successful. It was in this field that I began to study the basics of graphic design, and the specifics of producing and placing radio and video advertisements.
2012 — marriage and move to Germany.
After the move and integration into a new culture, I finally had the opportunity to focus on self-development.
In 2020, I began private studies with a brilliant teacher — Nikolai Yuryevich Fedotov, a designer, publisher, and graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in easel painting.
Until 2024, I studied composition, drawing, painting, and color theory, combining practice with theoretical research on the great masters. I was drawn to the intellectual side of painting — the understanding of composition, the interaction of color and form.
Over time, I mastered the language of figurative painting in all its complexity and beauty. Along the way, I developed a deep love for color as an independent phenomenon, which led to the creation of Polyphantom-Art.
2025 — the birth of the first work in the Polyphantom-Art project series: “Mother.”
Color in painting became for me a separate world — rich, alive, and ever-changing — a world that I continue to explore.
This exploration gave rise to the projects “Extraction” and “The Presence of Absence.”
My research and experiments
