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Oikospace is a space where you practice returning. Not to a place, but to yourself — your perception, your body, your direct experience of being alive.
That's what the work is for.
The biggest work an artist ever makes is her own life.
Oikospace is a place to practice returning — not to a place, but to yourself. Your perception, your body, your direct experience of being alive. It works through making. When we create, we meet ourselves. Not the polished version, not the version we perform for others — the real one: how we feel, how we move, where we resist, where we come alive. A few marks on paper show this faster than thinking can. And from there, we begin to create our lives — not just live them. Everything here is built from that one principle — structured creative action. A free seven-day challenge, a library of practices, a session, a live workshop. What changes between them is depth and support. Oikospace exists because I couldn't find it anywhere else: something structured enough to hold a scattered mind, honest enough not to promise magic, and alive enough to reach what thinking couldn't.
I’m Kristina.
Who is behind Oikospace?Ever since I was little, I wanted to be an artist. It took me years to understand what that really meant — and I'm still in the middle of that making. Oikospace is where I walk with people doing the same. Ukrainian-born American, living between Santiago, New York, and Prague. MFA from the New York Academy of Art, BFA from Parsons School of Design. My paintings have been exhibited internationally, including Art Palm Beach, with a residency from the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France, and the Merit Scholar Award from the New York Academy of Art. For more than a decade I've taught art, design, and transdisciplinary creativity at university level — today in Chile, where I also contribute to graduate studies in transdisciplinary creativity. In the studio I work intuitively — each painting a living field of relationships, the image revealing itself through process rather than being imposed. That daily return to my own practice is what everything else here is built on. I teach it because I live it. ADHD, highly sensitive, a mother. My intuition is there, and I can't always hear it — so I built a method for the days it's gone. And yes, my own mind loops too. I'm the guide, not the oracle. I don't have your answers — I show you how to look, and where.
The question that has guided everything:
"What actually helps people reconnect with themselves?"
Ways in
Meet the work,
not the words.
You've read enough about it. Paper and a pen are all you need — and the first door takes five minutes.
When you're ready — work with me
Mirror Session
75 minutes · online · $120
One session, one question you can't think your way through. English or Spanish.
Book a session →Creating Without Forcing
Live workshop · Sat 3 Oct · $80
Move past resistance without pushing harder. Two and a half hours, fifteen places.
Join the workshop →Seven days, fifteen minutes a day, free. Paper and a pen are enough.