Viola Winokan is a visual artist blending photography, drawing, and experimental techniques. Raised between Moscow and Berlin, she studied art history, worked as a gallerist, and collaborated with renowned artists like Helmut Newton and Daido Moriyama. Based in Amsterdam, her work is in collections worldwide and exhibited at Museum Mauritshuis and at Open Ateliers Amsterdam.
Her multidisciplinary work spans fine art, photography, writing, and culinary art. Projects like A Million Colors and Coffee Stories & Images explore human relationships through poetry, psychology, and humor. Since 2015, she's used coffee pigment in calligraphic works titled It All Started With a Cup of Coffee. Viola leads workshops, teambuilding sessions, and chef’s ttable dinners with her own recipes. She also advises the Amsterdam Art Foundation and deals in contemporary art.