Olga Tobreluts (; 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.Olga Tobrelutsz. The Museum Ludwig (Budapest)
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".The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche. 2016. The Victoria and Albert Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum
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.Ольга Тобрелутс: "Мы, ленинградцы, чувствуем оттенки серого". 05 марта 2019 года. Светлана Конеген. Радио Свобода From 2019 she is a member of Pacsa Art Community. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Budapest and Pacsa.
Awards 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
Source:Ольга Тобрелутс: "Признан ты как художник или пребываешь в забвении, главный критик — это Время" 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 Source:Тобрелутс Ольга. Каталог: персона. Проект RAAN Музея «Гараж» 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 Source: Selected Group Exhibitions 1989. Exhibition of miniatures. Museum of Miniatures, Toronto, Canada 1991. Palace Bridge Museum, Leningrad, USSR 1992. Graphicon 92. Мoscow, Russia 1992. Antigraph. VDNKH, Moscow, Russia 1992. Palace Bridge Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1993. Art Myth. First performance of Woe from Wit. Grand Manege, Moscow, Russia 1994. III Saint Petersburg Biennale, Manege, The Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1994. Renaissance and Resistance. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1994. Self-identification. Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, Saint Petersburg, Copenhagen 1995. The Passion of Luka, SCCA Annual Exhibition, Marble Palace, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1995. The Third Reality, International Forum of computer art. Saint Petersburg, Russia 1995. Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea, Audience Sympathy Award 1995. Videovision festival and SCARP exhibition. Planetarium, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1996. Saint Petersburg — 1995. Manege, The Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1996. Photobiennale 96. Grand Manege, Moscow, Russia 1996. The Department of Contemporary Art: First Five Years. Benois Wing, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1996. Museum of the New Academy. Reserve Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1996. CONCEPT, International Exhibition of Contemporary Photography. Zagreb, Croatia 1996. Idylle und Katastrophe. Erfurt, Germany 1996. Trends and Photography. Small Manege, Moscow, Russia 1996. Interaction: Chance Visions, SCCA Annual Exhibition. Saint Petersburg, Russia 1996. Metaphern des Entrucktseins. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany 1997. Family Portrait, within Months of Photography. St. Paul's Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia. 1997. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1997. Alternative Museum, together with Brian Eno's installation «The Light», Marble Palace, 1997. Last Five Years. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1997. Neoacademism. The State Museum «Pavlovsk», Saint Petersburg, Russia 1997. New Russian Classicism, special project within Art Manege, Moscow, Russia 1997. The Cabinet. New Russian Classicism. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1998. Unintentional Sinners. Publishing house «Arguments and Facts», Moscow, Russia 1998. Photography from Saint Petersburg, Centre of Photography, Turku, Finland 1998. Aufbruch, Die Neue Russische Fotografie. Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany 1998. Best European Digital Photo, Museum Griffelkunst, Hamburg, Germany 1998. II International Photobiennale. Moscow, Russia 1998. The Break. New Russian Photography. Cologne, Germany 1998. Photography from Sain Petersburg. Praha, Czech Republic 1998. Family Portrait. NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, United States 1998. Neoakademiska photo. Arzemju Makslas Musejs, Riga, Latvia 1999. Fauna. National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia 1999. Kunst & Computer. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany 1999. Photo Festival in Nice. Photo Centre, Nice, France 1999. After the Wall. Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden