Are you ready for the next Beautiful Bizarre TAKE OVER?!
If you are a follower of our Beautiful Bizarre community, you surely love this feature as much as we do. We’ve selected one of our favourite creative minds and friends to take over Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s social media for a whole day. A magical dose of inspiration and creative energies directly from the source and curated with love!
We handed our socials over to Victoria Olt of Victoria Olt Gallery, our great supporter and Platinum Sponsor of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. What a special day this was as our friend amazed us with her ingenious curation! In case you missed it on our socials, we put together the TAKE OVER right here for you to dive into. Join us on the adventure into the creative world of Victoria Olt of Victoria Olt Gallery!
We would like to thank Victoria Olt once again for her support and generosity as a Platinum Sponsor in the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.
Victoria Olt of Victoria Olt Gallery TAKE OVER
Ana Kurist @anakurist
Ana Kurist is an Estonian self-taught artist. She is known for her photorealistic portrait drawings that talk about the inner lives of her subjects. She has had 2 solo exhibitions with Victoria Olt Gallery: Emotions: Mine and Yours (2025) in which she explores the emotional depth of human experience through expressive portraiture and dynamic line work. and Bloom and Grow (2023) which speaks of mother daughter love.
Ana Kurist made this exhibition in collaboration with her mother Kai Kurist who has been a lifelong artist but never dared to dream exhibiting her work. The exhibition speaks of the everlasting journey of growing as a person and reaching for the moments where we can “bloom”. Ana Kurist has also participated in numerous group exhibitions with Victoria Olt Gallery
Ksenia Sulaeva @kseniasulaeva
Ksenia Sulaeva, born in 1995 in Rubizhne, Ukraine, She formally began her education in 2011 at the College of Lugansk National Academy of Culture and Arts, focusing on easel painting. Her studies were disrupted by the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2014, forcing her to relocate and continue her education in central Ukraine. In 2015, Ksenia moved to Lviv to attend the National Academy of Arts, where she specialized in monumental painting, expanding her artistic vision and technique.
After completing her education, she made a significant move to Tallinn, Estonia, in 2019, where she became actively involved in the local art scene, further defining her unique style that blends monumental painting with elements of Pop Art. She has 2 solo exhibitions with Victoria Olt Gallery “Black Line and a Million Hours” in 2025 and “Luces de Amor, Lágrimas en Neón” in 2023.
Riso Chan @risochan
Angela Maria Sierra, known as Riso Chan, is an artist and creative educator based in Zwolle. Growing up in an artistic environment, her mother, a sculptor, inspired her to explore her creativity from an early age. Riso believes that portraits can be a powerful way to express emotions and the human experience, acting as a language of their own that requires no words. As a result, portraiture is the central theme in most of her works. Riso Chan’s artworks represented at the exhibition “Flora’s Garden” act as a visual diary of emotions, where she explores colors, playfulness and portraiture.
Tomasz Mro @tomaszmroart
Tomasz Mro is a self-taught artist, born in 1997 in Poland. After moving to England as a child, he grew up navigating the complexities of living between two cultures—a theme that has deeply shaped his artistic voice. His first solo exhibition at Victoria Olt Gallery “Calm and Chaos” delved into the search for identity, with his Yellow Series evoking a sense of nostalgia for his birthplace. In his second exhibition with the gallery, Shades of Solitude, Mro turned inward, reflecting on loneliness and its seemingly inseparable connection to the life of an artist. Across his body of work, he is recognised for his hyperrealistic, emotionally charged portraits that resonate with quiet intensity.
Marita Liivak @maritaliivak
Marita Liivak has studied painting both at the Pallas University of Applied Sciences in Tartu and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, Italy (BA). Her intuitive creative process is mixed with technical proficiency. She conveys her life-experiences through art and thrives on topics that exceed the lines of comfort by using vibrant colors, large canvases and sensual figures.
Subject matters vary from mental health and sexuality to daily comedy, awkwardness and candid moments. Liivak’s work is mostly inspired by events in her life and accompanying emotions which as a result make the work autobiographical, though it is supposed to be subjective and open for interpretation. After publishing, the artwork starts a life independent from the artist.
Agnes Cecile @agnes_cecile
Silvia Pelissero was born in Rome in 1991. She attended art high school, also in Rome, before pursuing a career an artist. She alternates periods of painting with events around the world, exhibiting and conducting workshops in some of the most prominent galleries in Europe. Among the first to use the internet to promote her paintings, by the age of 18, she already had a large and loyal online following. From the beginning, she has used the artist name Agnes Cecile, by which she is still known today.
Her style is characterized by clear, luminous images and vibrant colors. She has been drawing since childhood, attracted to the human figure and its expressiveness. She develops an instinctive and personal painting process, rich in rough brushstrokes, abstract forms, and rapid, gestural marks. She learns to express herself by creating intimate portraits that describe inner worlds and emotions. Her continuous exploration of emotional storytelling allows her to reach people from all backgrounds. This universal language opens doors for her to showcase her paintings worldwide.
Victoria Olt @victoriaoltart
Victoria Olt is a traditional artist whose ethereal paintings fuse classical realism with the dynamic colors of contemporary art. Her work delves into the depths of the human soul, capturing the complex emotions we often try to conceal. Using mixed media, she creates captivating “windows” into inner worlds that feel both timeless and deeply personal.
Her art has been exhibited in galleries across the globe and is held in numerous private collections. Born and raised in Estonia, Victoria later moved to Spain, where she pursued a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Seville. After her time in Seville, she worked as a freelance artist in Madrid and Amsterdam. During the height of the pandemic, she relocated to the secluded island of Nevis, where she began making her own watercolor paints. This allowed her to experiment with rare pigments not available to the general public, including color-shifting pigments and paints made from semi-precious stones believed to possess metaphysical properties. In late 2021, she returned to Estonia to found the Victoria Olt Gallery.
This was the last inspiring post from our fabulous guest curator for the day, our dear friends at Victoria Olt Gallery. Thank you for the Take Over on our Instagram feed and for the inspiration you shared with all of us!
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