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

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Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including

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, New York; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden;

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for Contemporary Art; Biennale of

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, Essen;

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; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her work is held in major collections worldwide, including

, New York;

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, Paris;

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, St. Petersburg; Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow;

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, Duke University;

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, Aachen, Germany; The

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, Oslo; NBK, Berlin, Germany;

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, London;

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Selected bibliography

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.

References

External links

Official website
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