It Will Melt Anyway
Familiar elements of the urban environment — its characters and everyday scenes — in Olga Chernysheva’s graphic works cease to be mere components of the habitual backdrop. Instead, the ordinary becomes a self-sufficient object of the artist’s observation, for whom there is no classical division between foreground and background.
Chernysheva’s protagonists — whether a security guard, courier, elderly woman at a market, or an elegant lady walking her dog — are isolated from their defining contexts and surroundings in compositions stripped of detail. In this way, both the artist and the viewer assume a shared position: that of an observer who recalibrates their own visual lens, focusing on fragmentary images and the distance that separates them.
Artist
In 1986, she graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, and in 1996 — from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
Selected solo exhibitions in recent years:
2025: Street of Sleep, GES-2, Moscow
2024: Re-animations, Iragui Gallery, Paris
2024: Houseplant is leaving, DIEHL, Berlin
2024: Unpacking Things, LANG, Amsterdam
2024: Being Daphne, Foxy Production, New York
2020: Grids & Rips, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2019: Public Feeding, DIEHL, Berlin
2019: Autoradio, Foxy Production, New York
2018: Ordered Equivocations, Kohta, Helsinki
2017: Chandeliers in the Forest, Secession, Vienna
2017: Settings, Iragui Gallery, Moscow
2017: Cactus Seller and others, DIEHL, Berlin
Her works are held in the collections of:
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow;
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg;
Moscow Museum of Modern Art;
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow;
The Collection of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow;
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA;
Library of MoMA, New York, USA.



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