Olga Chernysheva / Anna Jermolaewa
Olga Chernysheva is based in Moscow, where she was born in 1962. She holds a BA from the Moscow Cinema Academy and an MA from the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. 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 centre stage.
Solo exhibitions
2013 Compossibilities, Kunsthalle Erfurt (DE). 2011 Olga Chernysheva, Foxy Production, New York. In the Middle of Things, BAK, Utrecht (NL). Clippings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin. 2010 Olga Chernysheva, Calvert 22, London. 2009 Present Past, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow. 2008 After Eisenstein, Lunds Konsthall, Lund (SE) (with Boris Mikhailov).
Group exhibitions
2012 FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas (US). Arsenale, the first Kyiv international biennial. Newtopia: The state of human rights, Mechelen (BE). 9th Shanghai Biennale. 2011 Two Thousand Eleven, Para/Site Artspace, Hong Kong. Miracles, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE). 2011 Site Inspection: The Museum On The Museum, Ludwig Museum, Budapest. Voyage, Voyage, Kunstverein Nuremberg (DE). Ostalgia, New Museum, New York. 2010 Counterpoint, Contemporary Russian Art, The Louvre, Paris. 6th Berlin Biennale. Futurologia. The Garage, Centre For Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
Publications
Vivian Sky Rehberg, “Day by Day”, in: Frieze, October 2011, pp. 230–233. Astrid Wege, “Olga Chernysheva: BAK, BASIS VOOR ACTUELE KUNST”, in: Artforum, May 2011, pp. 300–301. Olga Chernysheva: Works 2000–2008, exh. cat. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin and Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow 2009. Olga Chernysheva: Acquaintances, exh. cat. White Space Gallery, London 2008.
Anna Jermolaewa, born in St. Petersburg (RU) in 1970, lives and works in Vienna.
In 1998, she graduated from University of Vienna (Faculty of Art History), and in 2002 she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Painting
& Graphic Art/New Media). From 2005 to 2011 she was Professor for Media Art at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe (DE).
Solo exhibitions
2013 The Way Up, Victoria Gallery, Samara (RU). A sort of homecoming, CAC Vilnius, Vilnius (LT) (together with Audron? Vaupsiene). 2012 Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (AT). Art is Concrete. And so is Truth?, Camera Austria, Graz. Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck. Das vierzigste Jahr, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg. 2011 Handschuhe aus Gummi, Putzkittel und Wischmopp, Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna. kunstraum lakeside, Klagenfurt. Kinoglaz, XL Gallery, Moscow. Step Aside, Institute of Contemporaty Art, Sofia.
Group exhibitions
2013 GOOD GIRLS_MEMORY, DESIRE, POWER, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. Lost in Translation, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ca’ Foscari, Esposizioni, Venice. The Naked Man, Ludwig Museum, Budapest. 2012 Kandinsky Price, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow. 2nd Ural Biennale, Ekaterinburg (RU). 7th Berlin-Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. At your Service- Kunst und Arbeitswelt, Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna. 2011 BEAUTY CONTEST, Austrian Cultural Forum New York. The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (DE). video-works, obra en video, EDS GALERIA, México D.F. Dark Waters, The Station, Belfast.