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Olga Tobreluts (, born Olga Vladimirovna Komarova; December 3, 1970) is a contemporary painter and multi-media artist.




Life and work



Olga Tobreluts was born on December 3, 1970, in the Murino village, Leningrad Oblast, USSR. In 1988 she graduated from the Leningrad College of Architecture and the following year she entered the Faculty of Architecture at the Leningrad State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. She attended the Leningrad Academy of Arts as a free student.
In 1989, Tobreluts created the Laboratory for the Study of Ornament at the "A-Z" Society in Leningrad. In 1989-1990 she worked in the Evgeny Ditrich Architectural Bureau in Saint Petersburg. In 1991-1993 Tobreluts studied at the "ART+COM" Institute in Berlin. She pioneered the use of digital media in the Russian art scene. The art critic Bruce Sterling called her "Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer".
Olga Tobreluts was a leading member of Timur Novikov’s "New Academicians" active in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s. In 1994, she became a professor in the Department of new technologies in this association. In 1998, Tobreluts opened the center for the study of photography at the "Mama" club. In 2012, she founded the non-profit organisation "Saint Petersburg New Academy". After the death of Timur Novikov, Tobreluts acted as curator of many exhibitions dedicated to St. Petersburg neo-academic art.
In 2016, Olga Tobreluts was elected to Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. From 2019 she is a member of Pacsa Art Community. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Budapest and Pacsa.




Awards


2021. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award for Best Visual Art Project, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016. First Prize, Lenstar Lenticular Print Award, Düsseldorf, Germany within DRUPA, the world largest printing equipment exhibition
2014. Award of President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
2000. Art of the Future, Taipei, Taiwan
1998. Second Prize, «Best European Computer Graphics», GRIFFELKUNST Festival, Hamburg, Germany
1998. International Award for the video art «The Manifest of Neoakademism», Karlsruhe, Germany
1995. The Audience Sympathy Award on the exhibition of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995. First prize in «Videovision» for the video «Woe from Wit» on the Third Reality, International Forum of computer art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995. The Audience Sympathy Award, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
1993. Award of First International Art Forum of computer art «Graphikon» for the video «Woe from Wit», Saint Petersburg, Russia




Works in collections


Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Bornholm Art Museum, Bornholm, Denmark
The Parkview Museum, Beijing-Singapore
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Déri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary
Corfu Heritage Foundation, Corfu, Greece
Art Center, Erfurt, Germany
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
GAS Galleria, Bologna, Italy
UVG (Ural Vision Gallery), Ekaterinburg, Russia
Gasunie Foundation, Groningen Museum, Netherlands
Ibsen Foundation, Oslo, Norway
Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
Mario Testino Foundation, Lima, Peru
Museum GRIFFELKUNST, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Martiniplaza Collection, Groningen, Netherlands
Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Aslan Chekhoyev New Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nizhni Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhni Tagil, Russia
Galleria d’arte moderna Achille Forti, Verona, Italy
Revoltella Museum, Triest, Italy
The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Museum of Political History of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Wolfgang Joop Foundation, Germany
Bonn Women's Museum, Bonn, Germany




Selected Solo Exhibition


2023. New Mythology. Estonian National Museum (ERM), Tartu, Estonia (with catalog)
2020. Back on Bornholm. Bornholm Kunstmuseum, Bornholm, Denmark (with catalog)
2019. Transcoded Structures — Before and After Media in Abstraction. OSTEN Pavilion of the
2019. Republic of North Macedonia, Venice Biennale, Italy (with catalog). Curated by Zsolt Petranyi
2018. Pieta and Resurrection. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2018. Mythology Reloaded. MODEM, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary (with catalog)
2017. New Mythology. Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary (with catalog)
2015. New Abilities. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2015. Heaven Landscapes. Name Gallery, within the parallel program of Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015. New Mythology. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2015. New Mythology. County Museum, Rovinj, Croatia
2013. New Mythology. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (with catalog)
2013. Contemporary Russian Women Artists. The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
2013. New Mythology. VISIVA Museum, Rome, Italy
2013. New Mythology. Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2013. Modernisation. MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium
2013. New Mythology. Koltsovo Airport, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Kira Sapgir
2013. «Troo-Lya-Lya’s Bag», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Alexander Borovsky «Art History For Dogs», National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Kira Sapgir
2012. New Mythology. Church of Santa Maria dei Battuti, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy (with catalog)
2012. New Mythology. AP Contemporary, Hong Kong
2012. Pieta and Resurrection. Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
2008. Olga Tobreluts. Nizny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizny Tagil, Russia
2008. Tarquin and Lucretia. Zelinsky Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2003. Art Digital. MARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2003. Emperor and Galilean. Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway (with catalog)
2003. Emperor and Galilean. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
2003. Sacred Figures. Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
2002. Abstract Landscape. Fotoimage Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2001. Olga Tobreluts. Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany
2001.Dream of Alexander the Great. Freud Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2001. Tobreluts. Gallery of Contemporary Art, San Marino
2000. Allegory. Freud Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2000. Sommarustillinga, Sacred Figures. Seljord Kunstforening, Norway (with catalog)
1999. Fear of O.T., Gallery 21, Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre. FNO project, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
1999. Mixed Media. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
1999. Labours of Hercules. Gallo-Roman Museum, Brussels, Belgium
1999. Models. Photogallery of Turku, Finland
1999. Latest works. With P.M.M.K. Ostende Art Kiosk, Belgium
1999. Models. Photo Art Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1998. Family Portrait. Kochubei Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1998. Odisseus. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1997. Photographs. Mixed Media. ARTKIOSK, Brussels, Belgium
1996. Olga Tobreluts. Photocenter, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996. Computer Photographs. New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996. Computer Art. New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996. Trends in photographs. Small Manege, Moscow, Russia
1995. Emperor Reflections. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1995. Videoinstallation «Third Reality», within Videovision festival and SCARP exhibition.
1995. Planetarium, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994. Emperor Reflections. Exhibition of computer photographes. Ethnographic Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993. Woe from Wit. First International Forum of Computer Art, Grafikon, Exploratory Laboratory, Moscow, Russia




Selected Group Exhibition






Filmography






References






External links


Tobreluts, Olga (Artist). The Victoria and Albert Museum
Olga Tobrelutsz. The Museum Ludwig (Budapest)
Комарова (Тобрелутс) Ольга Владимировна (Род. 1970). The Pushkin Museum
Olga Tobreluts Instagram

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