Olympio’s multivalent approach to art making is influenced by his mixed cultural upbringing. His experience of bridging Beninese, Togolese and French cultures (and territories) has brought about in him an interest in those more or less tangible spaces that connect or separate us - the overlaps or intersections that exist between people, beyond the usual social-cultural identifiers (race, gender, religion) that continue to bind us. His sensitively rendered paintings, expressive yet precise in their simplicity, speak to his view of culture and identity as ambiguous and fluid. Olympio states: “I try not to give too much thought to what I’m about to paint when I start a series. Rather, using the same composition in a body of work allows me to focus on the colours and how to apply them. [...] I have always viewed artistic practice as an ongoing process. A research. During the work, plastic, theoretical or personal questions emerge and feed the process.”

Olympio has held four solo exhibitions to date, most recently Ligne (2022) and Lisière (2021) at blank projects. He has participated in several group exhibitions, both locally and internationally, including Common at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa (2023), Respirer at La Box, Ensa Bouges, France (2021); Contemporary Benin at Fondation Donwahi, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (2021) and Shaping the future at Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany (2019). In 2018, Olympio was artist-in-residence at the Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany.

Olympio’s work is represented in several notable private and institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia) and Credit Suisse Collection (Switzerland).