Olga Chernysheva
Olga Chernysheva
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Olga Chernysheva is a bright representative of the generation of Moscow artists who emerged in the 1990s. She made her name at a time of momentous political and cultural change - a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic crisis that affected much of the country's population.
Chernysheva conveys her precise observations of her surroundings through various media, including short essays, which she combines with video, photos, and graphics. Thus, Chernysheva continues the long Russian tradition of social realism (not to be confused with social realism, the official artistic doctrine of the USSR) and art as a kind of critical and compassionate narrative. Her work is complex, subtle and multi-layered. She freely combines different media: graphics, painting, photography, audiovisual installations and films. Her subjects are marginal characters, objects located on the very periphery of visual perception, the space of the city and suburbs. Chernysheva was born in Moscow in 1962. She studied animation at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her solo exhibitions have been held at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg ("Zone of Happiness", 2014), the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art ("Keeping Sight", 2014), the Secession in Vienna ("Chandeliers in the Forest", 2017).
She represented Russia at the 2001 Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg (2014), and the 1st Bergen Triennale, Bergen, Norway (2013). The works are in the Russian Museum, the MMOMA.
In 2022 she won the prestigious Guerlain Foundation Prize for Contemporary Drawing.
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