Olga Chernysheva

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Olga Chernysheva is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Moscow. She studied at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Chernysheva engages with different media in her work, including drawing, painting, photography and video, in a research-based approach that is highly attentive to modern art history. She draws on the long history of social rather than socialist realism in Russian culture, intermeshing critical and compassionate narratives, humour with candour. Her drawings and paintings take from Chernysheva’s background in animation, revealing the artist’s capacity to construct potent emotional imagery that draws from the dynamism of moving images. Recent solo and group exhibitions of Chernysheva have taken place at venues such as Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin (2024); Foxy Production, New York (2023); FOKSAL Foundation, Warsaw (2020); Tate Modern, London (2019); Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2016). In 2001, she represented Russia at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and participated in the 57th Venice Biennale in 2015. She exhibited during the Manifesta 11 in Zurich and taught classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy in 2013 and 2014.