Olga Kisseleva


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Exhibitions

DIVERS FAITS

The project “FAITS DIVERS” turns around a photographic series of contemporary still lifes and consisting of a narrative text for each photograph.
If the historical references of the project and the use of allegorical codes obviously come from the Dutch painting of the 17th century, Olga Kisseleva’s still life pictures can be read in multiple semiotic and emotional layers thanks to all the objects that are part of the compositions.
In the 21st century, like in the 17th, the object can have different levels of meaning: through its form, material, colour and use, but also through its nature, its relation to other objects, persons or places. One can seize and interpret the references immediately.
In addition to this immediate perception, the artist will refer to her illustrious predecessors, adding another layer of meaning, the level of history or tradition, using, for example, the “dictionary of the objects” of the Northern Renaissance, the local and popular customs, the social, professional, geographical and, of course, nutritional references. The wrapping, the colours, and the absence or presence of logos are not used innocently, and so, the composition of those everyday objects will refer the viewer to a message other than just promotion(or commerce): and a story of loves, friendship, conquest or discovery.
During the creative process, the artist relied on a team of art historians, a sociologist and a writer. First they compiled a contemporary dictionary of the system of symbols of food and everyday objects. Then, writer Helena Villovich was commissioned to write 49 short stories. Inspired by the everyday life of the artist, each text is based on some keywords taken from the dictionary. Finally, a still life was composed on the basis of each story. The objects selected for the still life correspond to the keywords at the heart(or root) of the story.
Viewed as a sequence, the photographs present a chronological narrative, a panorama of the everyday, a semiological essay of contemporary food industry.





FITNESS ART CENTRE




Graduated from St. Petersburg University, Olga Kisseleva (1965) is one of the most accomplished Russian artists of her generation.

From the beginning of the 90s, on the invitation of the Fulbright Foundation, she found a roof for her work in the research group in the United States which dealt with the development of digital technologies. In 1996 she is getting her PhD for her theoretical work on the theme of new forms of hybridization and she is invited to the Fine Art Institut of 'Hautes Etudes' in Paris. Since then she has been developing original work in which is oscillates between truth and untruth and she is searching for improbable boundaries that separate both. In all of her projects the viewers very much take part, thereby the artists challenges the ability of new media to create a true picture of reality.

For her first personal exhibition, Jozsa Gallery shows a selection of her most recent works - an opportunity to discover the artistic approach of this important Russian post-diaspora artist.

The lighting of 'Conclusive Evidence' shows that the distance between Brussels and St Petersburg is turning to 0.

The digital animation 'Conquistadors' examines the tensions and conflicts that define the Russian territory in the age of privatization. Ironically commenting the 'global conquests' that has become standard practice in the current stage of post-communist capitalism, this work provides a dystopian picture of space completely reappropriated by the capitalist enterprise.

In 'Fitness Art Centre', a screen is linked to a body-building machine that visitors are invited to use. Doing so activates images of demonstrators projected onto the screens but blurred by the random appearance and disappearance of big brand logos. The whole set-up bears witness to world dominated by a state of political confusion and individual manipulation.

'CrossWorlds' helps visitors to translate in real time the subliminal information in textual form. Olga Kisseleva places electronic tags detectable with a simple mobile phone in photographs or in a video-animation. Into the 'CrossWorlds - Dow Jones' the messages encoded are from propaganda both from the American style of life and from Soviet propaganda. According to Susan Buck-Morss' analysis, the similarity between them is evident although they are formulated in different ways.

Works




photo gallery

Biography

OLGA KISSELEVA (St Petersburg)
Lives and works in France

St Petersburg university


SOLO SHOWS(selection)

2010
  • sur mesure, RURART, Poitiers, France
  • Double Life, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania
  • Divers Faits, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • Double Life, CCC Garage, Moscow, Russia
2009
  • Moscow Time, CNEAI, Chatou, France
  • CrossWorlds, monumental installation in the Sancy National Parc, Auvergne, France
  • Your Self Portrait, Videospace, Budapest, Hungary
  • Princess Frog, carte blanche, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • Moscow Time, Tri Postal, Lille, France
2008
  • Landstream project, Oslo, Bergen, Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Svolvaer and Trondheim (Norway), Copenhagen (Danemark), Malmö and Göteborg (Sweden)
  • Dreamworks, Nordic Artists' Centre, Dale, Norway
  • Fitness Art Center, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • Going Public, Contemporary Art Centre La Pommerie, St Setiers, France
  • Ma double vie at SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW: ARTISTES ET PRODUCTEURS AUJOURD'HUI, EHESS, Paris, France, curators Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez
2007
  • Seven Deadly Desires, The National Picasso Museum, Vallauris, France
  • Windows, The National Marc Chagal Museum, Nice, France
  • Douce France, Contemporary Art Centre Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen l’Aumone, France
  • Artist as part of the attacking multitude, The National Centre, Moscou, Russie, the 2nde Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
  • Conclusive Evidence, Dukan & Hourdequin gallery, Marseille, France, carte blanche by Alexandra Fau, and ARKA Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia, 2007
  • Moscow Time, Ile de France Centre of Photography, Pontault-Combault, France, curator Elena Sorokina
2006
  • (r)evolutions (with Metazone television), Nuit Blanche, curators Nicolas Bourriaud & Jerôme Sans, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France
  • LANDSTREAM workshop, San Jose Museum of Art - South Hall / Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
  • Ex-stream, curator Anne Roquigny - WJ-s project, National Museum of Contemporary Art , Bucharest, Romania
  • Invisible, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
  • Where Are You?, ViennAfair (ARKA gallery), Vienna, Austria
  • (r)evolutions, Contemporary Art Centre, Perm, Russia
  • LANDSTREAM, Bonnat Museum, Bayonne, France
2005
  • DiVA Paris (ARKA gallery), Paris, France
  • Sortir le dragon de l’hibernation, performance with Kety Anjoure, The Junction, Cambridge, UK
  • Space-Time, Art-Moscow Art Fair (ARKA gallery), Moscow, Russia (23/05/05 - 28/05/05)
  • Copy and Past, Dmitry Semenov Gallery - National Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg, Russia
  • Border / no border, MACO, Mexico, Mexique (Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY)
  • Doors, ARKA Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia
  • Imagemakers, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2003
  • So far so close..., City installation by the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, , curator Suzanne Pagé, Boulevard Jean Jaures, Paris, France
  • A way to make portraits, CAPC Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
  • Next stop : Russia, (Le tour du monde du Web), Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
2002
  • Connection, (Nuit Blanche ), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
  • Paris Project Room, Paris, France
  • Hybride space, The State Russian Museum of Arctic & Antarctic, St Petersburg, Russia
  • A clairvoyant told me I have a problem with my eyes : that I couldn’t see reality…, Dak’art, 10th Dakar Contemporary Art Biennale, Senegal
2001
  • Post Web Landscapes, KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  • How are you?, French Institut, Helsinki, Finland
  • A wrong city, The State Russian Museum, St Petersbourg, Russia
  • Where are you ?, Contemporary Art Institut, Moscow, Russia
1999
  • How are you in Paradiso ?, independant action, 48th Venice Biennial

GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2010
  • The First Industrial Contemporary Art Biennale, Ekaterinburg, Russia
  • Western China Contemporary Art Biennale, Yinchuan, China
  • GenArt, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
  • Lesson of History, curated by Joseph Backstein, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • It might never happen, curated by Christian Debize, opening program of the Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • FUTUROLOGIA, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, CCC Garage, Moscow, Russia
  • No soul for sale, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan, Tate Modern, London, UK
  • Charles Fourier, l'Ecart Absolu, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France
  • Hypotheses verification, Laboratoria ART&SCIENCE space, Moscow, Russia
2009
  • Genipulation, Kunsthaus PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
  • Gender Check - Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Vulnerability, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
  • Pandora's Box, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain,
  • Indomitable Women, BAC, Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona, Spain
  • Fleuves, curated by Nadine Gandy and Sylvie Boulanger, CNEAI, Chatou, France
  • City&Art, 11th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Urban Ping Pong, Galerie Fernand Léger - Centre d'art contemporain, Ivry, France
  • Russian Portraits and Landscapes : in the footsteps of Tourgueniev..., curated by Olivier Vargin, Beffroi de Namur, Namur, Belgium
  • Processes, curated by Zsolt Kozma and Eike Berg, Videospace Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  • Europe XXL, curated by Caroline David and Elena Sorokina, Tri Postal, Lille,France
  • Si j'avais un marteau !, Entre-deux, Nantes, France
  • No more reality, curated by Claire Staebler and Jelena Vezic, Contemporary art centre DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
  • facebook's friends, curated by Michaël Picoron, La Cité des Géométries, Maubeuge, France
  • RESISTANCEs, solo project, curated by François Taillade in Jeud'images, cinema Art&Essais, La Courneuve, France
  • Landstream, in Simulation scientifique et matérialisation artistique, Betonsalon, Paris, France
  • TOOL BOX, curated by Entre-deux (Marie-Laure Viale & Jacques Rivet), Ghislain Mollet-Viéville and Christian Ruby, Ecole des Beax-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, France
  • Ideal City, with Jean-Louis Maubant, Jacques Attali..., Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
  • SLICK, Dukan&Hourdequin Gallery, Paris, France
  • DiVA, ARKA Gallery, Paris, France
2008
  • L'Argent, Le Plateau - FRAC Ile de France, Paris, France, curators Caroline Bourgeois and Elisabeth Lebovici
  • Les Ateliers, First Rennes Contemporary Art Biennale, Rennes, France, curator Raphaële Jeune
  • Another Voice - WE, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, curator Xiao Lan Xiao
  • Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, curator Natasa Petresin
2007
  • Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, curator Victor Misiano
  • Ne Moskva, Trans-Siberian Express, Moscou-Vladivostok, Russia, curated by the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg
  • Global Feminisms Remix, curated by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
  • Invisible Sounds, Netherlands Media Art Institut, Amsterdam, Holland, curator Annet Dekker
  • Partners in Crime, MC Gallery, NY, USA, curators Louky Keijsers, Mariely Lopez Bermudez, Sara Reisman, Elena Sorokina
  • Photophobia, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Petroliana, Moscow MoMA, Moscow, Russia, curator Elena Sorokina
  • Même heure, même endroit, Contemporary Art Centre Abbaye de Maubuisson, St Ouen l'Aumone, France, March 31, from 6 PM
  • Disonancias,Tbacalera Public Art Centre, San Sebastian, Spain

Press

Farine, Manou. Olga Kisseleva, le feu brûle sous la glace, l'Oeil, Paris, France, Février 2008 /in .pdf
Lechner, Marie. l'Exagone est pavé de bonnes intentions, Libération, Paris, France, 28/01/2008 /in .pdf
Kampiane, Harry. Olga Kisseleva, Art Actuel, Paris, France, N°52, septembre/octobre 2007 /in .pdf
Le Monde Même heure, même endroit, dos à dos, face à face à l'Abbaye de Maubuisson, Paris, France, 27/05/2007 /in .pdf
Rivoire, Annick. Dans le Layrinthe des sens, Libération, 27/04/2004 /in .pdf

Texts

Catalogue Olga Kisseleva : mondes croisés, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Val d'Oise. Paris. 2008 /in .pdf
"Olga Kisseleva : signs that don't lie", Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice. France. 2008
Misiano, Victor. Olga Kisseleva : « Je vois, donc je suis » /in .pdf
Wright, Stephen. "Erehwon et son double", in "Where are you ?", Moscow Contemporary Art Institute, Moscow, Russie, 2001
Manovich, Lev. Emotion Machine and Database Imagination, in "communication identification", Paris. France. 1999

News

  • September-November 2011, REWRITING WORLDS, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • September-November 2011, UNCONTAINABLE special project of "Untitled", 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
  • October-December 2011, Le Louvre revisité, l'art contemporain au Musée du Louvre, lab-labanque, Bethune, France
  • November 26 2011, Power Struggle, performance dans le cadre de l'exposition "Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia", La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Espagne
  • October-December 2011, Double Vie, exhibition-workshop, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  • November 2011, Double Vie, conference ENSA, Dijon, France
  • October 2011, La Mapa del Mondo, Festival international de court-metrage, Capabillo, Italie
  • October-December 2011, ECO BIO GOES AROUND THE WORLD, TINA B., Prague
  • December 2011, ECO BIO GOES AROUND THE WORLD, TINA B.,Gdansk, Poland
  • 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, AR Intervention Invisible Pavillion Urban, Screens Future Pass, Venice, Italy
  • October 13 - November 12 2011, Women's Nano, RSUH Museum Center, Moscow, Russia