Aksenova Olga

Olga Aksenova was born in 1991, she lives and works in Moscow.

EDUCATION:

2010-2015 — Fine Arts and Natural Resources, specialising in icon painting, Moscow Region State University, Moscow, Russia.
2015-2019 — private workshops, The Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow, Russia.
2021-2022 — Video art and contemporary painting, Process School of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2022 — residency in Gallery 22, Moscow, Russia.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
2022 — Archstoyanie, festival of contemporary art, Bird's Eyeview group project, Nikola-Lenivets art park, Kaluga, Russia.
2022 — Point, IGUMO gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2022 — GIVE ART A CHANCE, 3D Exibition, HAZEGALLERY, Berlin, Germany.
2022 — Discovering new names, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2021 — Restlessness, Gallery 22, Moscow, Russia.
2021 — All-Russian Eco-art Festival of Intellectual Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2021 — Open exhibition, New Sincerity gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2021 — Date 6, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2021 — Notification, interactive exhibition, Israel.
2021 — Quarantine, Kabood Atelier Art Gallery, Tabliz, Iran.

The artist's work synthesises the traditions of the iconographic school and contemporary trends in network art, united by an interest in mysticism. The main work implies the interconnection of an internally ordered time period with external factors, the importance of understanding and observing supersensitivity – a phenomenon emerging at the junction of contemporary art and its perception. Each new element from the environment deconstructs the existing mode of being, thereby creating an ordered chaos. Awareness becomes a barrier to knowing oneself and the soundscape. It provides an opportunity to go deeper into the nature of things and phenomena, to accept one's place in the natural and human symbiosis. Boundaries become more transparent, reinforcing the contrasting perception of reality. The moment of rejection is shaped by a new meaning and a signal to action.

The artist explores such concepts as «image», «countenance» outside of time and reality in her artistic journey. The process of integrating this experience into the DNA of contemporary art is synthesised through a long involvement in icon painting practices.

There is a search for answers to questions about «spirituality», «images» and «faces» that have persisted and survived in networked spaces. In 2022, the project «Urandi Tribe» emerges from this quest, based on its own mythology as an opportunity to look into the boundary spaces of existing planes of being. This project was first exhibited at the Abramova gallery, Saint-Petersburg.

The artist finds sources of inspiration in fairy tales of different cultures, legends and myths, in art history and folklore songs. Since October 2022 the artist has been a resident of Gallery 22, a self-organisation of contemporary artists, where participants form exhibitions based on the rhizome principle and realise their own personal projects.

«My practical part are based on the intersection of contemporary art and many years of iconographic experience. In this interweaving, I am trying to understand how centuries-old traditions inherent in our religious basis have taken root in public memory and life I reflect on the ways of symbiosis of these borderline practices in the field of contemporary art». Olga Aksenova

Using fluorescent colour pigments, she tries to reveal the mystical content of the modern world by appealing to an image, a face - a concentration of cultural memory.

The artist's works are stored in private collections in Russia, America and France.