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), CSI 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, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
- 2021 - I Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk
- 2021 - "Liquidation.21", U contemporary, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
- 2021 - "Double Solid", Shop Red, CSI 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, CSI Vinzavod, 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), CSI 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, an artist
Works
Makhno Olga
Tumbleweed II, 2022
Oil, acrylic, torn canvas, healing plants, tumbleweeds, charcoal
400 x 200 x 200 cm
Makhno Olga
Tumbleweed I, 2022
Oil, acrylic, torn canvas, healing plants, tumbleweeds, charcoal
400 x 200 x 200 cm
Makhno Olga
Simple signs, 2022
Personal property, metal, glass, wood, plastic, plaster, plastering
100 x 100 x 40 cm
