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 on 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 often seem to co-exist uneasily. Her backgrounds, with their fluctuating tonalities and psychological charge, vie with her subjects for centre stage.
Solo exhibitions: 2013 Person protected by drawing, Diehl Galerie, Berlin. 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.
Group exhibitions: 2013 & Olga Chernysheva / Oleg Klimov / Sarkis / Willie Doherty, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. Monday begins on Saturday, Bergen Assembly (NO). The End of the 20th Century: The Best Is Yet to Come, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. 2012 Newtopia: The state of human rights, Mechelen (BE). 9th Shanghai Biennial. 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 — From the Icon to the Avant-Garde by way of the Museum, The Louvre, Paris. 6th Berlin Biennial. Futurologia, The Garage, Centre For Contemporary Culture, Moscow. 2008 After Eisenstein, Lunds Konsthall, Lund (SE) (with Boris Mikhailov).
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. She graduated from Vienna University (Department of History of Art) in 1998 and from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (Painting, Graphic art & New Media) in 2002. From 2005 to 2011 she was Professor for Media Art at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe (DE). Anna Jermolaewa works primarily in photography, video and installation, concentrating on the analysis of functional structures of society and social reference systems relating to everyday living circumstances. Her observation frequently centres on the nature of man and the basic conditions of human existence.
Solo exhibitions: 2013 Kerstin Engholm Galerie. The Way Up, Victoria Gallery, Samara (RU). 2012 Kunsthalle Krems (AT). Das vierzigste Jahr, Kunstverein Salzburg. 2011 Handschuhe aus Gummi, Putzkittel und Wischmopp, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna. kunstraum lakeside, Klagenfurt (AT). 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 (RO). Lost in Translation, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ca’ Foscari, Esposizioni, Venice. The Naked Man, Ludwig Museum, Budapest. A sort of homecoming, CAC, Vilnius (LT) (together with Audron? Vaupsiene). 2012 Kandinsky Price, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow. 2nd Ural Biennale, Ekaterinburg (RU). Truth is Concrete, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT). Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale. At your Service- Kunst und Arbeitswelt, Museum of Technology, Vienna. 2011 BEAUTY CONTEST, Austrian Cultural Forum New York. The global Contemporary. Kunst nach 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE). video-works, obra en video, EDS GALERIA, México D.F. Dark Waters, The Station, Belfast. 2009 Ad oculos, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow.
Publications
Conversation with Ursula Maria Probst, “Alles läuft nach Plan”, in: Kunstforum international, vol. 221, May/June 2013, pp 210-221.
Vitus Weh “Anna Jermolaewa“, in: frieze d/e, Issue 8, February/March 2013.
Astrid Wege, “Anna Jermolaewa“, in: Artforum, summer 2012.
Ursula Maria Probst, "Denn das Leben lebt", in: Spike, no. 31, spring 2012, p 123.
Christa Benzer, “Anna Jermolaewa: Das vierzigste Jahr”, in: Springerin, April 2012.