Profile

Olimpia Eccelesiaste is a photographer, performance artist, costume designer, and a filmmaker based in New York City. Born in Eastern Europe, she received a degree in Professional Photography Practice at London College of Communication and an MA in Filmmaking and Television Production at Silesian University in Katowice.In New York, she performed in Francesco Vezzoli Right You Are (If You Think You Are) by Luigi Pirandello at the Guggenheim Museum. She performed at the New Museum on four occasions, twice in 2011 in Roman Ondak's Good Feelings in Good Times and in Spartacus Chetwynd: Home Made Tasers, as well as facilitating Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled 1271 in 2013, and Pawel Althamer's Draftsmen Congress in 2014.In 2012 she danced with the Michael Clark Company during his residency at the Whitney Biennial in Who's Zoo. At La Mama, she danced in Pavel Zustiak’s Painted Bird Trilogy, and Pascal Rambert's A (micro) history of world economics, danced. In 2014 she was a part of Marina Abramovic’s Generator at Sean Kelly Gallery, and in the Missing Book of Spurs by Marianne Vittale which was part of Performa 13. In that same year she was in the chorus for Matthew Barney’s film River of Fundament that premiered at BAM, and performed in the Golfing Party of Brancusi, Satie, and John Quinn at Dia:Beacon. In 2015 she played a lead role in the indie feature Xmas in July, and starred in the video artwork Monologues for Orpheus exhibited at the AC Institute in Chelsea. In 2016 she performed with longtime collaborator Bobbi Menuez, in their piece Dinner with Chibi Cherry at MoMa PS1, and in their piece Authority Figure at the Knockdown Center.Olimpia Dior has been creating her own pieces since 2015. She works with a cast ranging from eight to twelve people exploring our existence, subconsciousness, and human behavior. Past performances include How to Act at the Table, Invisible Sentence, Confessions of a Video Bitch, The Last in Chinatown, The Dinner Party, Chinatown Utopia, and Pyramids Of.Summer 2019 Dior was performing at the New Museum from June through September in La Menesunda by Argentinian artist Marta Minujin and became a Gucci Muse featured in Memoire d’une Odeur campaign.From October 2019 till January 2020 Olimpia Dior was a part of a cast of  “Near to the wild heart”, a play based on a novel by Clarice Lispector, directed by Ildiko Nemeth, staged at The New Stage Theater Company. Olimpia performed two characters, Cousin Isabel and the Teacher’s Wife. The play received a very good review from The New York Times.Olimpia’s photos and videos were published in ID, Vice, Creators Project, Ravelin, Art in America,You Do You, Neo2 , Dis Magazine, Coeval Magazine, Purple Diary. Olimpia became a part time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design in 2022.

Degrees Held

MA Film and Television production, Silesian University in Katowice, Poland

Professional Photography Practice, University of Arts , London

Research Interests

Fashion Film, Cultural Anthropology, Perfume Making