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Valery Chtak 
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Alla Esipovich 
Laszlo Fehér 
Dasha Fursey 
Georgy Gurianov 
Valery Koshlyakov 
Vlada Krassilnikova 
Andrei Molodkin 
Ivan Plusch 
Aidan Salakhova 
Arsen Savadov 
Sergei Serp 
Yuri Shabelnikov 
Stephen J. Shanabrook 
Sergey Shekhovtsov 
Rupert Shrive 
Olga Tobreluts 
Evgeny Yufit 


1970
Born in Leningrad / Saint-Petersburg, Russia

1988
Graduated from Architectural College, Leningrad, Russia

1989
Special graduate in computer graphics at the Institute Art+Com, Berlin, Germany

1992
Organized Laboratory for the Study of Ornament, Saint Petersburg

1995
"Videovision" First Prize for "Woe from Wit ", "The Third Reality" Festival, St. Petersburg (catalogue)

1998
International Award for the video art "The Manifest of Neoakademism”, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
Opened the Photo Art Center in St. Petersburg, Russie
Second prize "Best computer graphics" in Griffelkunst European competition Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)

Nowadays, she lives and works in Saint-Petersburg, Russia


SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2009
Olga Tobreluts, Muzeum of Art, Nizny Tagil, Russia
TOBRELUTS, Triumf Gallery, Moscow

2008
Olga Tobreluts, N. Tagil Museum, Russia
Olga Tobreluts, Kaunas Biennal, Museum Zelinskogo, Litany

2007
Thinning factor, Orel Art Gallery, Paris
Olga Tobreluts, N. Novgorod Museum, Russia

2006
Tarquin and Lucrecia, D137 Gallery, St. Petersburg

2005
Graphics Biennale, Kaliningrad, Russia
Billboards, Sidney, Australia
New Gallery, Houston, USA
Gallery Planetario, Palazzo Forte, Verona, Italy
Sacred figures, Il Segno Del Tempo gallery, Milan

2004
Emperor and Galilean, Orel Art Presenta Gallery, Paris
Olga Tobreluts, Art Kiosk Gallery, Brussels
Olga Tobreluts, JMS Gallery, Oslo, Norway

2003
Holly Figures, Orel Art Presenta Gallery, Paris,
Emperor and Galilean, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
Emperor and Galilean, Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg
Olga Tobreluts, Modern Contemporary Art Gallery, San Marino
Art Digital, Center of contemporary art Mars, Moscow

2002
Abstract landscape, Fotoimage Gallery, St. Petersburg

2001
Macedonsky Dream, Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg
Olga Tobreluts, Der Gegenwart Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany

2000
SOMMARUSTILLINGA “Sacred Figures” Seljord Kunstforening (catalogue)
Odiseya, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Olga Tobreluts, Inge Baecker Gallery, Köln, Germany
Allegory, Freud Dream Muzeum, St.Petersburg

1999
Mixed Media, Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg

1998
Models, Photo Art Center, St. Petersburg
Models, Photo Gallery Turku, Finland
Feats of Hercules, Gallo Roman Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Family portret, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Models, ARTKIOSK, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)

1996
Tendencies and Photos, Maly Manezh, Moscow
Impaire reflections, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Photocenter, Copenhagen, Denmark
Computer Photographs, Sketches, New Academy of Fine Arts, St.Petersburg

1994
Exhibition of Computer Photographs, Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg

1993
International forum computer art “Grafikon”
Woe from Wit, “Expluatory Labaratory“


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009
History of Russian Video Art II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2008
From Neu Artist to Neoakademism" Museum of a City sculpture, St. Petersburg

2007
Traveller black square, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg
The archive of perestroika art, Contemporary Art Museum, Kiasma, Finland
History of Russion Videoart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow


2006
ART ATTACK! (Russian contemporary art), Orel Art Gallery, Paris
Sense of Life – Sense of Art. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (catalogue)
Let there be video, Russian video art 1996-2006. Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)
Fotobiennale, Large Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
OPTICA, Tarquin and Lucretia, The Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain

2005
VIII BIENNIAL OF GRAPHICS, Kaliningrad (catalogue)
Altre Lilith, Scuderie Aldobrandini (catalogue)
Europalia Russia, Belgium
Accomplice, Moscow biennale of contemporary art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Russia

2004
New Akademy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bornholm, Denmark
Orizzonti Aperti (with De Felice Castorati and Vanessa Beecroft), Verona, Italy
Photo Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalogue)
Il Nudo, Modern Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy. Curator: Peter Weermaer (catalogue)
Ideal and Reality, GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele Gallery, Turin (catalogue)
Art and Geography, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
La creazion ansiosa. Da Picasso a Bacon…, Palazzo Forte, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
Gods Becoming Men, Frissiras Museum, Athens. Curator : Edvard Lusi-Smith
… And woman created man, Espace Belleville, Paris, France. Curator: Francis Parent
Transversalistes russes, Orel Art Presenta Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
Kandinsky e lanima Russia, Palazzo Forti, Italy (catalogue)
Days of Flight - 100 paintings from State Tretyakov Gallery, Yaroslav Art Museum, Russia
Ekaterina, Frauenmuseum, Bonn

2003
Neue Ansatze, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
Eve, Vénus, Madone, Gemeente Maasmechelen, Belgium
The Fourth Sex: the Extreme Territory of Adolescence, Stazione Leopolda, FlorenceLudwig Museum at the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
According to... , GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele Gallery, Turin
Imagery Art Fashion, Museum Revoltella, Italy
Touch me, Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg
Emperor and Galilean, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Emperor and Galilean, Heine Ostand Museum, Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
Olga Tobreluts, Long&Ryle, London
The Rave of Europe, Luke&A Gallery, London
Da Anzinger a Warhol, Exibition D'Apres Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
Photo Los Angeles, The 12th international Los Angeles Photographic Print Exhibition, “Sacred Figures” (catalogue)
Foreign visions, Museum of Contemporary art Skopie, Lowenpalais, Berlin
Neue Ansatze Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Germany (catalogue)
The Rave of Europe, Luke&A Gallery, London

2002
Russian Symbolism, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Doll’s House, Heine Ostand Kunstsenter, Norway
Artist of Ideal, Palazzo Forte, Verona, Italy
European Biennale of Photography, Manege, Moscow
Die Griechische Klassik idee oder Wirklichkeit, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Snowgirl, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Emperor and Galilean, Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)
A she art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Foto biennal, Large Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
Glovane Figurazione internazionale, Planetario Gallery, Trieste

2001
Abstraction in Russia, National Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Beauty & Eroticism, Gasunie Groningen Museum, Groningen, Holland
Sybaris, Baltic contemporary art biennale
Ciclo espositivo ex chiesetta di Sant Anna, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea San Marino, Italy (catalogue)
Rotterdam 2001 – St. Petersburg 2003, Koffie Verkeert Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland (catalogue)
Grani, State Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov, Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk

2000
Art 2000, New Art from Moscow, Saint Petersburg; Kiev; Kunstverein Rosenheim, Belgium
Russian Neoacademism, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Odyssey, Travelling exhibition, Norway
Contemporary art in the Traditional museum, Stiglitz Museum “Still life”, St Petersburg, Russia
Art forum, Berlin, Deutchland
Space of Tradition, Tomsk Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk Surikov Museum, Kemerove Museum, Novosibirsk Picture Gallery (catalogue)
ISKUSSTWO 2000, New Kunst from Moskow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Kunstverein Rosenheim (catalogue)

1999
Classicism Today, Ostende Museum, Belgium
After the Wall, Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Photography Festival, Photography Center, Nice, France
Heaven, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle; London Tate Gallery
Fauna, National Art Center, Moscow
Photography of Saint Petersburg, Photography Center, Turku, Finland
Kunst & Computer, Altonaer Museum, Hambourg

1998
Family portrait, SIGGRAPH, New York, USA
BREAK. New Russian Photography, Cologne, Deutchland
II Biennale Internationale de la Photographie, Moscow
Best European digital photo, Musée GRIFFELKUNST, Hambourg, Deutchland
Neoacademic Photography from St. Petersburg, Union of Latvian art museums. Museum of Foreign Art
Photography from St. Petersburg, Center of Photography Turku, Finland

1997
Family portret, Months of Photography, St.Pauls Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia. (catalogue)
Last Five Years, State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, Russia
Kabinet "New Russian Classicism", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

1996
Photobiennale, Manezh Moscow (catalogue)
Idylle und Katastrophe, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)
Metaphern des Entrucktseins, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
Tendencies in Photography, Small Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
Interaction: Chance Visions, SCCA Annual Exhibition, St.Petersburg
KONCEPT, International exhibition of Contemporary photography, Zagreb, Croatia. (Catalogue)

1995
Passiones Luci, SCCA Annual Exhibition, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea, Audience Sympathy Award (catalogue)
Videovidenie, SCARP exhibition, Planetarium, St. Petersburg

1994
III St-Petersburg Biennale, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalogue)
Renaissance and Resistance, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
Self-identification, Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen (catalogue)

1991-92
Museum Palace Bridge, Leningrad, Russia
Anigraph, VDNKh, Moscow

1989
Exhibition of Miniatures, Museum of Miniatures, Toronto, Canada


FILMOGRAPHY

2002
Kesar and Galylein, 45min VHS
1998
Love story M Monrow and V Majakovsky, 15 min. film 35mm
Manifest of New Academy, Betacam 10 min.
1996
The Last Feat of Hercules, Betacam SPI 5 min.
Tower, Betacam SFI I min.
1995
Game, 35 mm, 40 min.
1993
Woe from Wit, Betacam SFI 13 min.
1992
Bridge, *G mm.·, Night, 8 min.
1991
Researches of the Laboratory, S-VHS, 10 min.
1990
Labyrinth, 16 mm, 20 min.


COLLECTIONS

State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Museum of the city’s political history, St Petersburg
Kaliningrad Art Gallery
Art Gallery Nizhnyi Tagil
Baron von Stieglitz Museum, St Petersburg
GRIFFELKUNST Museum, Hamburg
Gasunier Gruningen Museum, the Netherlands
Palazzo Forte Museum, Verona, Italy
Ludwig Museum, St Petersburg
Museum of Photography, Moscow
Galleria GAS, Bologna, Italy
Revoltella Museum, Trieste, Italy
Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts, St Petersburg
Collection of the Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Mario Testino Foundation
Wolfgang Joop Foundation
Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
Collection of the Art Center Erfurt, Germany
Women Art Museum, Bonn
Museum Martini Palas, collection Groningen, Holland
Ibsen Foundation, Oslo, Norwey