Olga Tobreluts (/tɔːbrɛˈluts/; December 3, 1970) is a contemporary painter and multi-media artist.

Olga Tobreluts
Ольга Владимировна Тобрелутс
Born
Olga Vladimirovna Komarova

(1970-12-03) December 3, 1970 (age 55)
EducationLeningrad College of Architecture, Leningrad State University of Architecture, Leningrad Academy of Arts
Known forPainting, graphic art, design, cinema, photography, sculpture
StyleNew media art, pop art, contemporary art, postmodernism, abstract art, neo-academic art
MovementSt. Petersburg neo-academic art
SpouseAndrey Khaas
AwardsSergey Kuryokhin Award (2021)
ElectedHonorary Academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts (2016)
PatronsTimur Novikov
WebsiteOlga Tobreluts Instagram

Life and work

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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.[1][2]

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".[1][2][3]

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.[1][2][3]

In 2016, Olga Tobreluts was elected to Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.[1] From 2019 she is a member of Pacsa Art Community. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Budapest and Pacsa.

Awards

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

Works in collections

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Antinous II, 2005 г.

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  • 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 Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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Filmography

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  • 1989. «Violet Birds», 30’
  • 1990. «Laboratory Searches», 10'
  • 1993. «Woe from Wit», 13'
  • 1995. «Sea Breathing», видеоинсталляция, 4 hours
  • 1995. «Eternal Music», 15"
  • 1995. «Last Labour of Hercules», 5'
  • 1995. «In Anticipation of War» 1'
  • 1996. «Odisseus» 1'
  • 1997. «Manifest of Neoakademism» 7'
  • 1998. «Love story of Merilyn Monroe and Vladimir Mayakovsky», 9'
  • 1999–2000. Stychograms «I Hear a Color and See a Sound»
  • 1999–2000. Video installation «East — West» 30’
  • 2000. «Dream of Alexander the Great»
  • 2002. «Rapture of Ekaterina», 1'
  • 2004. Video installation «Replacement», within «Tarquin and Lucretia» project, 15’
  • 2005–2006. Video installation «Thin Factor» within «Caucasian Prisoner» project
  • 2008–2009. Video installation «Buttle with Fenrir»

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