OLYA KROYTOR
(Moscow, 1986)
EDUCATION
2008-2009 Institute of Contemporary Art
2007-2008 School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
2003-2008 Moscow Pedagogical State University (Graphic Art Department)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2020 BOE Art Prize, finalist, Berlin, Germany
2017 Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: “Project of the Year”
2017 “Grant Program for Emerging Artists”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Grant Program for Emerging Artists”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 Kandinsky Prize “Emerging Artist: “Project of the Year” /winner/, Moscow, Russia
2014 Shortlisted for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize: “Best Public Art”, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: “Emerging Artist”, Moscow, Russia
2012 Nominated for the Strabag Art Award, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS:
2016 Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund Award: “Visual Art”, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2015 Center for Contemporary Art Zarya Residency, Vladivostok, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 “Excluding Equilibrium”, A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazahstan
2016 “The Coordinates of Disappearance”, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 “On the Other Side”, Artwin Gallery, Kicik Qalart, Baku, Azerbajjan
2015 “Time That Exists”, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2015 “Eight Situations”, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Unnecessary”, Komnata Gallery, Theater of the School of Modern Drama, Moscow, Russia
2011 “Dissociative Identity Disorder”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
2011 “Split Personality”, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 “Composition №1”, Dvorets Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020
“The Session“, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Bon Voyage“, Galerie Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
"One Hundred Landscapes for One Person", The Tretyakov State Galley, Vladivostok, Russia
"Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF)"; Fakel, Salut, Zvezda Cinema, Moscow, Russia
“GENERATION XXI. Donated by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin“, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“The -Fe Male“, Home Performance Art Festival, online
“The Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present“, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“2020-2070“, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2019
“A-Real Film Festival #2”,Studio 4413, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Adaptation“, K. A. Timiryazevs State Biological Museum, Moscow, Russia
“A-Real Film Festival #1”, Electro Museum, Moscow, Russia
“Sky is always clear” (reenactment of Yoko Ono's “Water Event”), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
“Listen to me. New Archive of Limited Edition Art – 2019”, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“Public and private”, Cube Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“XII International Art Symposium "Alanika"”, National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
“The organs of perception of art”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“7th Festival of Contemporary Art “Tsiolkovskiy””, Innovative cultural center, Kaluga area, Russia
“Solyanka Art Squat Forum”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Red Arrow. Moscow — Saint Petersburg, a look from the 1980s”, Heritage House, Belgrade, Serbia
“SOS. Russia”, Embassy of Austria in Moscow, Moscow, Russia
“In Residence: From the Collection of Zarya Center for Contemporary Art”, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
“Invited By”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
“Co-autor”, Creative Industrial Cluster "Octave", Tula, Russia
“The Marvellous Cacophony”, Belgrade biennale of contemporary art, 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
“2344. Penetration”, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
“Anatomy of fairytale”, Pörnbach Contemporary, Munich, Germany
“Hair”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
“CREATurE Live Art: International Performance Art Festival”, Post Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
“New Literacy”, 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Project “Decay"(video art), Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Empatheia“, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
“Siberian Utopia“, KANSK International Architectural Festival, Kansk, Russia
“A quoi rêvent les forêts? “, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France
“Luther und die Avantgarde“, Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany
“Man as Bird. Images of Journeys“, Special Project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for La Biennale di Venezia 57th International Art Exhibition, Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice, Italy
“Internal Manifesto“, Ground Hodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Prokofiev’s 3D Dimension“, Sergei Prokofiev Museum, Moscow, Russia
“Dream Movie Theater”, Ground Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
“DIALOGUE: Contemporary Art From Russia“, KBS Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
“Transcendent Piano Festival”, Muzeon Park of Arts, Moscow, Russia
“After Glamour”, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Shelter”, Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Moscow, Russia
“DADA Festival”, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
“Co-Author“, Center of City Culture, Perm, Russia
“BALAGAN. Contemporary Art From the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places“, Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany
“Martyr“, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
“Practice Contact”, 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“Remember Tomorrow”, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
“ARTBAT FEST 6“, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Influence“, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia
“The Fest”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“People in the City“, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
“Ceremonial Portrait”, 50A Studio, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History“, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
“What We Hear, When We Look? “, Parallel Program Manifesta'10, First Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg, Russia
“A Time for Dreams“, Main project of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
“Moscow. Barocco“, Parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Don't Even Dream!“, Parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Do It“, Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“After the Comic“, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
“Stability. Ghosts”, Random Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Always in the Vanguard”, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, England
“Part of the Whole“, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“Expansion of the Subject”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
“Out of the Forest“, Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Kaluga Region, Russia
2012
“The Reset”, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“V_museum - Platform Moscow”, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
“Between Heaven and Earth“, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art”, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
“2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art” (Main Project), Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Price”, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“RussenKo”, Kremlin-Bicetre City Hall, Kremlin-Bicetre, France
“Triple Reflection”, Studio Kopecks, Moscow, Russia
“Vglaz”, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011
“Employment History”, PRОЕКТ_FАBRIКА, Moscow, Russia
“Run”, ArtSquat Forum, Moscow, Russia
“Nuts”, Regina Gallery, London, England
“9 Days”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Space Art”, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“MODESTY”, FLACON Factory, Moscow, Russia
“Malevich Spiral”, KOMNATA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Landscape”, M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
