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עברית Olga Florenskaya was born in 1960 in Leningrad in a family of sculptors Natalya Dolinskaya and Andrey Semchenko. In 1982 OF graduated at St. Petersburg Mukhina Art and Design college (faculty of ceramics). The member of MITKI art group (1985-2000). Member of St.Petersburg Artist Union since1989. In 1990 studied in INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES EN ARTS PLASTIQUES (Paris– St.Petersburg).
Since 1994 Olga Florenskaya has been working in collaboration with her husband Alexander Florensky on big joint projects such as “MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE”, “RUSSIAN PATENT”, “MOVEABLE BESTIARY”, “LOCAL TIME”, “RUSSIAN TROPHY”, UNIVERSAL MUSEUM OF WILHELM WINTER”, etc.
Olga Florenskaya works in different fields of art: painting, ceramics. sculpture, book illustration and graphics (artist is known as the author of the numerous paper and fabric collages) and is involved also in literature and animation.
OF took part in production of the 56 minute animated film MITKIMAYER (with A. Florensky as a chief artist) in1992.
In 1994 OF made her own 15 minute animated film “THE GREATEST MIRACLE” and in 2004 – 10 minute animated film “TROPHY FILMS” (in collaboration with A. Florensky). OF took part in a large number of film festivals, both in Russia and abroad (1993-2002) and got a number of prizes.
Works by O. Florenskaya are in the following collections:
The State Russian Museum (St Petersburg), State Hermitage (St Petersburg), The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The Pushkin Fine Art Museum (Moscow), NCCA collection (Moscow) and in large number of art museums in Russia (Yaroslavl, Tver, Omsk, Arkhangelsk, Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Ivanovo, Saratov, Sochi, Kursk etc); KIASMA and Helsinki City Art Museum (Helsinki), Victoria & Albert museum (London), collection of Hand Print Studio International, Washington, DC, art collection of the GRAND VALLEY State University (USA), etc.
Artist lives and works in St Petersburg and Tbilisi.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2011
CONTEMPORARY WOODEN SCULPTURE IN PERM, Perm State Art gallery (Russia)
GATES AND DOORS. The State Russian museum, St.Petersburg
ST.PETERSBURG 2010. Central exhibition hall, St. Petersburg.
2010
MURMANSK PLAINAIR, Murmansk art museum (Russia)
COMMERCE, «New art gallery», Tbilisi
TOWN OF N (in collaboration with A. Florensky), Vallois sculptures gallery, Paris
GEOGRAPHIC MAPS (in collaboration with A. Florensky), Perm State Art gallery (Russia)
2009
RUSSIAN POOR, «RED OCTOBER» exhibition center, Moscow
TOWN OF N (in collaboration with A. Florensky), 0047 Gallery, Oslo; Tromsø Kunstforening/Tromsø Art Gallery, Norway; University Of Lapland, Rovanniemi, Finland; Murmansk art museum (Russia); ART PLAY Gallery, Moscow.
The International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Art Events «АRTISTERIUM 2009», Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2008
VARIOUS SKELETONS, NOMI art gallery, St.Petersburg
VARIOUS SKELETONS, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tromso, Norway)
2007
PAINTING AND DRAWING SOCIETY: GEORGIAN LANDSCAPES, CARVASLA gallery, Tbilisi
RUSSIAN TROPHY, RETRETTI exhibition center, Finland
ARCHITECTURE: AD MARGINEM, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
ARTIST’S DIARY Guelman gallery (Moscow Biennalle), Moscow
THAW Guelman gallery (State Russian Museum), St Petersburg)
PAINTING AND DRAWING SOCIETY: LANDSCAPES, Borey art center,
St Petersburg
POSTCARDS AND ENVELOPES, Central Museum of History of Communication, St Petersburg
2006
RUSSIAN TROPHY, NCCA, Moscow
RUSSIAN TROPHY, NCCA, Nizny Novgorod
RUSSIAN TROPHY, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
GEOGRAPHIC MAPS, NOMI gallery, St. Petersburg
COLLAGE IN RUSSIAN ART, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
RUSSISCHE SOUVENIRS, Bielefeld, Germany
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS, Guelman gallery, Moscow
2005
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS, St. Petersburg, Museum of the history of religion.
ACADEMY OF PORCELAIN, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage.
1st MOSCOW BIENNALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.
ART-MOSCOW, Central exhibition hall, Moscow.
ART PLAY, Moscow.
ART FORUM, Moscow.
GHOST OF A CHANCE, Bath, Ipswich – UK.
CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, Ipswich, UK.
ACADEMY HOLIDAYS, Museum of the New Academy”, St. Petersburg.
2004
TAMED AND WILD, State Russian museum, St. Petersburg.
TAKSIDERMIA, Art center ANNANTALO, Helsinki.
NA KURORT!, Kunsthalle, BADEN-BADEN, Germany.
2003
THE RETURN OF MIR ISKUSSTVA , St. Petersburg History Museum.
STUDIO OF ART-MOSCOW, Moscow art Fair, Moscow.
GRAPHIC ART OF XX CENTURY, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
NIGHT TRAIN Surrealist Routes to Kiasmas’s Collections. Kiasma Museum, Helsinki.
TYPEWRITERS, PRO ARTE, S.-Petersburg.
2002
MOVEABLE BESTIARY AND OTHER OBJECTS, Architectural Association, London.
SNEGUROCHKA, Zacheta National Gallery , Warsaw.
RUSSIAN TROPHY, Hand Print Workshop International,
Washington, DC.
FEMME ART, State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow.
2001
MISCELLANEOUS, show and lectures in Grand Valley State University, Michigan.
ISKUSSTVO 2000, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany.
NORDIC POSTMODERNISM, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki.
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM ST. PETERSBURG, Tallinn Art Museum.
ART – MOSCOW FAIR, Moscow.
MOVEABLE BESTIARY, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujyazdowsky Castle, Warsaw.
2000
GUELMAN GALLERY IN THE STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM, State Russian museum, St. Petersburg.
ANATOMICAL PERSON, Kunstkamera Museum, St Petersburg.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS YIE, Anhava Gallery, Helsinki.
TAXIDERMY, MODEST ARCHITECTURE, A MOVEABLE BESTIARY, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
TAXIDERMY, MODEST ARCHITECTURE, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
DYNAMIC COUPLES, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
ART – MOSCOW FAIR, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
1999
FAUNA, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow; National Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod; Zacheta National Gallery , Warsaw.
LOCAL TIME (THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONOMETRY IN RUSSIA), State Museum of the History of St Petersburg (in collaboration with Outi Heiskanen).
1998
EXHIBITION OF NEW ACQUISITIONS, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
A MOVEABLE BESTIARY IN THE SUMMER GARDEN, Summer Garden, St Petersburg.
SELECTED MATERIAL FOR THE PROJECT “A MOVEABLE BESTIARY”, Iosef Bakshteyn Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
RUSSIAN PATENT, Guelman Gallery, Moscow (in collaboration with G. Pellegrini).
1997
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujyazdowsky Castle, Warsaw.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, Szczecin Biennale, Poland.
RED IN RUSSIAN ART, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
5 YEARS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ART, the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
VODKA, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
1996
RUSSIAN PATENT, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.
IYE, EXMA Art Centre, Cagliari, Italy (in collaboration with G. Pellegrini).
WEIMAR – KNIGA, Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.
IYE, Rauma Biennale, Finland.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, L-Gallery, Moscow.
METAPHERN DES ENTRUCKSTEINS (contemporary art from St Petersburg), Karlsruhe.
1995
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE (the archive of I.P. Barinov), Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.
1994
ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE MITKI GROUP, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
RUSSIAN DESIGN, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.