Oleg Dou is the pseudonym of artist Oleg Douryagin.

Born in 1983 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in economic programming. Since childhood he was interested in art, became interested in creating computer graphics. In 2005 he took up photography and began to combine it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures.
Winner of International Photography Awards (2007), International Color Awards (2008) and Arte Laguna Art Prize (Italy, 2009). Nominee of the Kandinsky Prize in 2007 and 2008.
Oleg created a Photoshop cover commissioned by Adobe, participated in the “Leaders of Public Opinion” program, creating works at the invitation of the Culture Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has collaborated with brands such as Givenchy, Juun J, David Koma. 
His works are in museum collections of Luxemburg Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Ekaterina Foundation, Russia; Jan des bouvrie, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, France; Samawi Collection, Dubai; Jeju museum of art, Korea; 21 cMuseum, USA; Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia; FRAC Reunion, France; Sollo Collection, Spain and others. As well as in private collections in Russia, America and Switzerland. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

• 2025 — Oberton Graphics  Fair a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2025 — Fair |catalog| November, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2025 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 — “Mutant”, solo exhibition , Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2018 — “Looking Back and Beyond”, group exhibition, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA 
• 2018 — “Elèctric i llunyà”, group exhibition, Tecla Sala Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain
• 2017 — “Elegance”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — “On behalf of baboushka”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — “All eyes on me”, group exhibition, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2016 — “Lonely Narcissus”, solo exhibition, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2014 — “Faces”, solo exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2014 — “8 years. Retrospective”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, Museum of Multimedia Arts, Moscow, Russia
• 2012 — “Tears and Toy Story”, solo exhibition, Museum of Regional Arts of Krasnodar, Russia
• 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2012 — “Reboot”, group exhibition, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2012 — “I am who I am”, group exhibition, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2012 — International Photography Festival, Republic of Korea
• 2012 — “Perestroika”, solo exhibition, Fotofest 2012 Biennial of Photography, Houston, USA
• 2012 — “Photography: Russia, China, Czech and Slovak Republic” group exhibition, Allen Center, Houston, USA
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 2011 — FotoArtFestival, BWA, Bielsko, Twarze, Poland
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2011 — “Gevaarlijk Jong”, group exhibition, Dr. Ghislain Museum, Ghent, Belgium
• 2011 — “F for Fake”, group exhibition, Belvedere Palace, San Leucio “Smell, Colour, Chemestry, Art and Education”, Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “Russian Tales”, group exhibition, EXPRMNTL gallery, Toulouse, France
• 2010 — “Russains! Photographic portrait 1970-2010”, group exhibition, OREL ART gallery, Paris, France
• 2010 — “Atopia”, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “inSPIRACJE”, festival, Poland
• 2010 — “L'exquis et l'obscur”, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux, France
• 2009 — “Tears”, solo exhibition, Art Espace 22, Brussels, Belgium
• 2009 — “Les Visages”, group exhibition, Interalia, Seoul
• 2009 — “Look me in the Eyes”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris
• 2009 — Pingyao International Photography Festival 2009, China
• 2009 — “Visage. Image. Timps”, group exhibition, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Fair |catalog| April 2023, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Artguide - Year Three: the results of art fair 1703
  
• Photoplay - Talks. Oleg Dou
  
• Moskvich Mag - This is my city: artist Oleg Dou
  
• ArtInvestment - Artist of the Week: Oleg Dou
• U magazine - Artist Oleg Dou - about fashion, design and art collaborations
  
• BURO. - The Carol Christian Poell store will host an exhibition of artist Oleg Dou
• Next Level - Oleg Dou. Sketches

Born in 1983 in Kemerovo.

Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz at the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, workshop of Prof. V.G. Lekanov (2004-2010) and Kemerovo Art College at the painting and pedagogical department (1999-2004). The works of the artist are in the Russian Museum.

In his works Kirill considers the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical subjects, using a stylistics referring to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance. Koteshov dissects the aesthetics of classical body image, exploring a motif reminiscent of Michelangelo's late sculptures from the Slaves series - spiraling bodies, somewhere unfinished, hardly carved from stone. 

The artist also creates industrial landscapes transformed into futuristic images of the city, using Kuzbasslak - coal tar, which refers to the industrial context of his small homeland.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

• 2024 — “Cosmopera”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow 
• 2010 — “Stolpopotvlenie”, Atelier No. 2 Gallery, Moscow
• 2010 — “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
• 2010 — “L'Exposition d'Ilya Gaponov & Kirill Koteshov”, Maison du ventes Leclere, Marseille
• 2010 — “Summer snow”, Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois
• 2008 — “Three Days”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• 2008 — “The Last Snow”, Globus Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2008 — “UNDER GROUND”, Manezh, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2007 — “Kuzbass Parallel”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• 2007 — “Position”, Museum of St. Petersburg State Art and Design Academy, St. Petersburg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

• 2025 — Fair |catalog| November, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2025 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2021 — “Answer 42” in the framework of the International Women's Forum, Kuzbass Ice Palace, Kemerovo, Russia
• 2020 — “Realism: yesterday and today. Art and Truth”, the branch of the Russian Museum in Malaga. Spain, Malaga
• 2020 — “Artists and collectors to the Russian Museum.Gifts.1898 - 2019. Selected” State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2019 — “Beauty: PLUS-MINUS”, Central Exhibition Hall “Manezh”.
• 2018 — “Project of interregional cooperation in the field of contemporary art NEMOSKVA”
• 2016 — “Ark”, as part of the V International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow.
• 2016 — “Changes”, Ural Vision Gallery, Budapest
• 2015 — “Russia. Realism XXI century”, State Russian Museum, Benois Building, St. Petersburg
• 2014 — “Newer than New” as part of the Baltic Biennale, New Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2014 — “Strictness and Beauty”, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg
• 2014 — “The Other Capital”, Moscow Museum, Moscow
• 2014 — “Actual Drawing”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2014 — “Waterline” installation, as part of the parallel program of the biennale “Manifesta10”, Rizzordi art foundation, St. Petersburg
• 2013 — ICONS. Creative space Tkachi. St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2011 — “Gates and Doors”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2010 — ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• 2010 — “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
• 2010 — Summer Snow. Maison du Loir et Cher. Blois, France
• 2010 — “Hero of Our Time”, Moscow International Biennale “Stop! Who's Coming?”
• 2010 — “Futurology”, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
• 2009 — Kandinsky Prize Exhibition. Louise Blouin Foundation. London
• 2009 — ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• 2009 — VIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk
• 2009 — Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
• 2009 — “Topology of Happiness”, Historic Architectural Museum Tsaritsyno, Moscow
• 2009 — “Russian Beauty”, GTSI, Moscow
• 2009 — Europe Art Fair 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
• 2009 — Art Basel Selection, Basel, Switzerland
• 2008 — “Death.net”, Art Gallery “Victoria”, Samara.
• 2008 — “White Space” Gallery, London
• 2008 — Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
• 2008— ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• 2008 — “Pereuchet” Manege, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2008 — “Memory of Fields”, loft-project “Etazhi”, St. Petersburg
• 2008 — Festival of contemporary art “Snegarry”, Kemerovo
• 2007 — “The Most New”, Atelier Gallery No. 2, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
• 2006 — Festival of contemporary art “Art - Status”, Kemerovo
• 2006 — First Biennale of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
• 2005 — Exhibition of competitive works “The Nutcracker”, Exhibition Hall of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
• 2003 — Work of the Year, Kemerovo Union of Artists, Kemerovo

ABOUT THE PROJECT “TREE OF LIFE”:

The main goal of the exhibition is to show the specifics of the functioning of drawing in contemporary Russian art. The main focus is on works from the 1990s-2000s, but earlier material, mostly related to conceptualism, is also included. The exhibition demonstrates various ways of actualizing drawing and drawing technique.

The intention of the work reflects the contemporary artist's distrust of the proper degree of grandeur of the space around him. The desire for the “great” inevitably leads to the element of monumental art organized according to classical laws. The idea is realized using the plot of the most daring creative event in the supposed history. The Tower of Babel, not the authentic stone steps of the ancient temple, but its mental construction, has penetrated the structure of memory and language as a multidimensional symbol. The creative act of erecting the tower can be regarded as a pure desire for greatness. The transformation of desire into action generates architectural splendor, allowing man to order nature according to the rules of supports and slabs. The creation of the tower (pillar) is the technological magnification of human civilization, and it continues to this day. Peoples, institutions, cultures and subcultures, overt and covert societies are equivalent as elements of the structure, the removal of one of them provokes instability of the puzzle. The personification of social realities turns into a metaphor of the construction process, where each character becomes an architectural block. It becomes clear that the piled bricks, which fall into place on their own, may not be aware of the existence of the Architect. Meanwhile, there is an Architect. In his role for a moment appears an artist creating virtual architecture. The scale and risk of this endeavor is deliberately high. An enthusiastically begun tower has turned into a construction frozen for lack of funds; a creation of grandiose utility risks turning into an aimless pandemonium of the crowd. And so, as a reminder of the great collapse of great ideas, the spirit of the titanic frescoes of the Renaissance inevitably accompanies the building. Considering the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical stories, the author uses a stylistic style that in its formal features refers to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance to build a sharp compositional structure. The body in this work merges one with the other. The body becomes at the same time a living matter, an inanimate object, a fragment, a puzzle, a detail of a mechanism that extends beyond the space of the canvas. By dissecting the aesthetics of the classical image of the body, the author thereby explores a motif that in some ways resembles the moment of Michelangelo's last sculptures from the “Slaves” series - these are spiraled bodies - somewhere unfinished - almost not carved from stone.  One can notice such a modernist gesture in them - the body both is and is not. In the same way, the body in Corpus II becomes a kind of refrain and continuation of the classical story of man, his spirit and struggle. The span of time of which we are participants and observers is a time of tectonic shifts of concepts and paradigms, like the Renaissance. Global structures absorb identities, leading to unification - of languages, images, worldviews. But can total equation be avoided? can a compromise between identity and the global emerge? can nations remain? Mixing and equation seems to be inevitable, but polyphony is always deeper and more complex. The paradox of globalization is the realization of identity. The tower cannot be completed. The general will still collapse into the particular. 

Actual Drawing Exhibition, 2014, Marble Palace, Russian Museum

Space Opera” exhibition, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, 2024

“The Tree of Life is a complex image that exists in various cultures and is one of the monumental symbols of life, the planet and all living things. Kirill Koteshov reinterprets this image in the form of a large pictorial installation, enveloping the entire space and completely absorbing our visual perception. The monumental pictorial installation, which was created in the Russian Museum for the exhibition “Actual Drawing”, really combines monumental painting, which practically turns into wall painting. The drawing is executed so qualitatively that it creates a feeling of the work of old masters, nevertheless, the theme of the Tree of Life and its realization by Kirill Koteshov remain relevant today.  In Kirill Koteshov's work, the tree is formed by the intertwined figures of people, the bodies touching and connecting with each other, creating a sense of a tree crown, a monolithic mass moving upwards and uniting all things into a single bond. The bodies are devoid of faces, gender, individual characteristics, but they are physically ideal, perfect and identical. The figures support each other, make each other bend, move, assume certain poses - but all together they form a single chain of being, a life taking shape, a mass that seems indestructible.”

Kirill Koteshov

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Artguide - Year three: the results of art fair 1703
• Artguide - Cosmoopera. Imaginary Architecture by Kirill Koteshov
• Vedomosti - Classics and contemporaries: four new exhibitions of spring
• BURO - Who's new? Participating artists worth coming to Cosmoscow 2023 for
• Playbill - What to see at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. She lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art Im. Graduated from Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art: New Art Strategies course, specializing in contemporary art practice, workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, and new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.

As a resident of Richter Workshops, artist Dishon Yuldash created the bottle design for Richter perfume with incense and black currant scent by Matvei Yudov.

She is the founder of the non-profit project Prolog.Vision, which realized the group exhibition “Planned Obsolescence” by curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the “Innovation - 2017” award in the category “Curator of the Year” for the exhibition.

PROJECTS AND AWARDS:

• 2014 / to this day — Founder of non-profit project ISSMAG gallery
• 2016 — Founder of non-profit project Prolog.Vision
• 2016 - Prolog.Vision. “Planned Obsolescence” international project, guest curator Alexander Burenkov. Parallel program of the V Moscow Biennale, Moscow 
• 2017 - Prolog.Vision, award “innovation - 2017” curator of the year. (curator Alexander Burenkov)

SELECTED FAIRS:

• 2025 — "PARANORMAL PHENOMENA", a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow 
• 2022 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Art Moscow Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Art Moments Jakarta Art Fair, Kendys gallery, Bali
• 2024 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — “Locus amoenus” group project, Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
• 2024 — “Dark Room No. 1” solo project, 19 DEVYATNADTSAT, Moscow
• 2024 — “Souvenir Trapa Natan”, Skaz Art Festival, Altai   
• 2023 — “Horizon brings time closer” group project Deeplist, Moscow 
• 2023 — Art residence Nuer Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand 
• 2022 — “Dead kingdom” solo project, NOVAT, Novosibirsk
• 2022 — “Staff &|| Transparent rod” artweekend art festival, Altai  
• 2022 — “Found trophy” solo project ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Ceremony 19742” solo project, Daipyat, Voronezh
• 2021 — “Beauty bomb” group project ISSMAG Gallery. Moscow
• 2020 — “Upper layer of the sky” solo project. Hotel Richter, Moscow
• 2020 — Art residency, Hotel Richter Workshops, Moscow 
• 2020 — “The loud sound of the serena” solo project, Villa Papi Mamie, Le Croisic, France  
• 2019 — “Minisystems”, Hotel Richter , Moscow
• 2019 — Travel agency “Noumen” Globalization and the unknown. Part l. Fabrika, Moscow

 CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2024 — “Clouds ”Yulia Goldman. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Numb Brushes” Vika Begalskaya & Alexander Vilkin. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow  
• 2022 — “Life Force. Rhodesian Genius” Dmitry Gilen, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Exercise in virtue” group exhibition. 
  ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
• 2021 — “All dogs go to heaven” Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Deformation without tearing and gluing” Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2020 — Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Quintessence multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” Katya Khasina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020-2021 — New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG gallery. Moscow 
• 2020 — “∅. no w” sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, gallery, Moscow 
• 2019 — Curator of projects a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — “Protodermis” installation by Abu Blount. ISSMAG gallry, Moscow
• 2018 — Concert-practice “m e r t s a n i e” by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — “Vctn” installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — “Who if you are not” performance by Alexei Tarutz. Rabitsa, Moscow
• 2017 — “Let all your dreams come true” performance-audio installation, Alexei Tarutz. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow Cosmoscow, Moscow
• 2016 — “Respawn, exactly, if not you then who” solo exhibition by Alexei Tarutz. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2016 — “Bangs” / “Bangs” solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. Fabrika, Moscow
• 2015 — “STILL MOVING” group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow 

PUBLICATIONS:

• MOSCOW MAG article “Why You Should Know Me: Issmag Gallery founder Dishon Yuldash”
• Vogue article “Why ceramics has become so trendy and which artists to follow”
• BURO 24/7 article on the launch of a fragrance for the Richter space in bottles by Dishon Yuldash
• Esquire article about the fragrance launch for Richter Space
• The BluePrint article on Dishon Yuldash's creation of sculptural bottles for the Richter fragrance space
• Arterritory.com article “Where the rainbow led”
• Статья tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “All Dogs go to heaven” by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “Deformation without tearing and gluing”, Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
• Dishon Yuldash interview for ArtUzel
• AQNB about the presentation of the video performance “ALEXEY TARUTS / WHO ISN'T YOU” at Issmag Gallery.
• AroundArt article about Katya Hasina's exhibition “Twigless multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” at Issmag Gallery