Makhno Olga

Born in autumn 1987, a graduate of the Modern Art and Illustration programmes, a regular contributor to literary magazines, and a lecturer in visual communication at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov. She is currently working on her dissertation on transmedia translation.

In her practice she uses hybrids of mediums to create the most three-dimensional statement possible - installation, painting, collage and video art, objet Trouvé, photography, graphics and sculpture. For the artist, it is particularly important to use performative practice, her own corporeality, to act as a kind of conduit between the statement, the realised object and the person who looks at it.

EDUCATION:

2020 — 2022 Moscow School Of Contemporary Art, direction Contemporary Art
2020 — 2023 British Higher School Of Art & Design, direction Illustration
2010 — Interschool, direction Scriptwriting

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 — "The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere", Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 — "And You Don't", Flacon Design Factory, The Cube, Moscow
2023 — "Who is Ophelia", Eulengasse, Frankfurt on the Main
2023 — "Suspended the Earth on Nothing", Bis Art Gallerey, Moscow
2023 — "This is a sign", Na Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow
2023 — "Finding Inner Mongolia" (part I, part II), Arbuzz gallery, Moscow
2023 — "Forms of Memory", Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum, Moscow
2023 — "Loss of Balance", U contemporary, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
2022 — "OK, I'll think about it", START space, Central Exhibition Centre Winzavod, Moscow
2022 — "Between Dream and Reality", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "Graduation-2022. Media Centre", Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2022 — "While the grown-ups are talking" (exhibition in two parts), Winzavod, Moscow
2022 — "Liquidation of norms", pre-auction exhibition, auction. P.Y.E. Optics. Garden of the Richter Hotel, Moscow
2022 — "How to Live Together?", bar "Rovesnik", Moscow
2022 — "Refraction of Time", All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow
2022 — "Youth", A3 gallery, Moscow
2022 — "Save as...", Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
2022 — "Others", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "Borders of Freedom", pop-up exhibition, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, David Razi'el Street 6
2022 — "Mythologemes", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "Accumulated", U contemporary, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 — I Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk
2021 — "Liquidation.21", U contemporary, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 — "Double Solid", Shop Red, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 — "New Energies", Gamma gallery, Moscow
2021 — "Art Fair of Art", A3 gallery, Moscow
2021 — "Hidden Figures", Room and Wall in DK GAZA, St. Petersburg
2021 — "In Search of Light", U contemporary, Winzavod, Moscow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023 —"The First Negative", Sol, Moscow,
2023 — "Serenkyi Volchok", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2023 — Performance Week at Montemero Art Residency, Spain
2010 — Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol. Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

2023 — "One to One", Na Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "While the grown-ups are talking" (exhibition in two parts), Winzavod, Moscow

"The main theme of my practice is the Space of Timelessness, the state before emotion. An opportunity to observe and reason without hurry and pain (as if from the outside) about ourselves, people, events and things. Distancing and slowing down, it is as if we get a chance to consider the object in every second of its existence. Personal and mental memory, storytelling, trauma, the fragility of the world and the human being, empathy, asceticism, fears, dreams, stillness and waiting - it is important for me to choose my words and mediums carefully in order to be correctly understood."

Olga Makhno