Olga Chernysheva
Olga Chernysheva’s often unwitting subjects are observed negotiating a society in turbulence, where the sense of a common future is rapidly dissolving. Her films, photographs, paintings, drawings and object-based works lyrically investigate the fabric of individuality and self-sufficiency and meditate upon the role of the artist in a time of flux. Chernysheva has a vital interest in the relations between object and figure, in particular in the ways that people and the spaces they inhabit seem often to co-exist uneasily. Her backgrounds with their fluctuating tonalities and psychological charge vie with her subjects for center stage
Olga Chernysheva (Moscow, Russia, 1962) lives and works in Moscow. She studied film and animation at the Moscow Cinema Academy and fine art at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Chernysheva has exhibited internationally for over three decades. She won the Guerlain Drawing Prize, in Paris, in 2022 and participated in the Kathmandu Triennale 2077, 2022, in Nepal.
Other recent notable exhibitions include “Workers” at Tate Modern, London, and “GRIDS@RIPS,” a solo at the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw. She has presented “Chandeliers in the Forest,” a solo at Secession, Vienna; “Revolution Every Day” at the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; and “Vague Accent,” a solo at The Drawing Center in New York. Large survey exhibitions include Manifesta 11, Zurich, and “All the World’s Futures” at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
The works of Olga Chernysheva are held in major collections worldwide, including MoMA (New York), Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Albertina (Vienna), V&A (London), Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The National Museum of Art (Oslo), Ludwig Museum (Aachen), Contemporary Art Museum (Avignon), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Neue Galerie Graz (Graz), Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris), Daelim Contemporary Art Museum (Seoul), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rovereto), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, New Jersey), FRAC (Bretagne), EVN (Vienna) and others.