Olia Sosnovskaya b. 1988 in Minsk, Bearus is an artist, researcher, and writer. She works with text and performative and visual practices. Her research interests include the problematics of festivity, collectivity and affect; body, dance and decolonial studies; contemporary modes of work and leisure and their intersection.

She is a member of the artistic-research group Problem Collective and the WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group. Sosnovskaya took part in various performance and media festivals and group exhibitions in Belarus, Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, and others. She is currently a PhD candidate at the PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.