Olga Chernysheva
Illustration — Olga Chernysheva, February 2011 Olga Chernysheva (born 1962 in Moscow, Russia) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Moscow. Her work spans film, photography, drawing and object-based mediums, where she draws on quotidian moments and marginal spaces from everyday life as a way of exploring the increasing fragmentation of master narratives in contemporary Russian culture. She holds a BA from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow and she finished a residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
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Olga Chernysheva
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- 1962 · Moscow.
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- Soviet Union · Russia
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- painter · photographer · artist
- Fields
- visual arts · fine-art photography
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography · Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
- Languages
- Russian
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Illustration — Olga Chernysheva, February 2011 Olga Chernysheva (born 1962 in Moscow, Russia) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Moscow. Her work spans film, photography, drawing and object-based mediums, where she draws on quotidian moments and marginal spaces from everyday life as a way of exploring the increasing fragmentation of master narratives in contemporary Russian culture. She holds a BA from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow and she finished a residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
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Olga Chernysheva born at Moscow.
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Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art; Biennale of Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her work is held in major collections worldwide, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; NBK, Berlin, Germany; Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Olga Chernysheva studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is visual arts and fine-art photography. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam and Moscow. Work by Olga Chernysheva is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and Berlinische Galerie.
• Abensour, Dominique. "Olga Chernysheva", De Moscou, 2002: 12-21. • Amir, Yaelle. "Olga Chernysheva", ArtUS 19, Summer 2007: 23. • Andreeva, Ekaterina. "Our Time According to Olga Chernysheva", The Happiness Zone, 2004: 17-23. • Degot, Ekaterina. "Inhabitants: A Conversation with Olga Chernysheva", *World Art Museum, No. 26, 20 January 2007: 92-93, 116-119. • Groys, Boris. "The Time Closure", The Happiness Zone, 2004: 7-15. • Groys, Boris. "Documenting everyday art", Olga Chernysheva: Works 2000-2008, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin and *Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, 2009. • Rudick, Nicole. “Olga Chernysheva”, Artforum.com, Picks, 3 April 2007. • Szymczyk, Adam, Chernysheva, Olga. "Sheer Presence", Camera Austria International 142 | 2018: 9-20.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Olga Chernyshova, Olga Chernycheva, Olga Chernisheva and Olga Tjernysjova. Her recorded language was Russian.
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