Olesya Gonserovskaya

Olesya Gonserovskaya, artist, muralist, illustrator

In her projects Olesya is inspired by the ability of people to communicate using contexts, cultural codes and connotations, as well as their ability to read between the lines and read the implied. Some of the cultural codes become relevant, some become obsolete, and the anrtisi is interested in checking how an outdated phenomenon can be rebuilt and resurrected. And what’s gonna be left. For example: Alphabet (2022), where she turns Soviet proverbs into everyday metaphors, The Little Dutches (2018), where Olesya quotes Hermitage classics on the walls of a factory in an industrial area, Rain Catalogue (2017), where she writes forgotten names of rains on firewalls using stylized Morse code.

She sees communication as a sign of animateness. From one project to another, she keeps asking questions about the origin of life and self-consciousness without much hope for a definitive answer. In these searches, the artist is accompanied by the theme of corporality and human memory. For example, Ashes (2018), where she draws imperfect human bodies with ashes. The starting point for a project is often biological theories: PAIC, a follower of LUCA, (2020), where she is looking for a future arti...

Educated in Rodchenko Art School, Media arts (Moscow, 2022), Pro Arte Institute for Young Artists (2018), and St.Petersburg State Academy of Industrial Arts, department of Monumental Arts (2015)
de_coloniallanguge artist group member:
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Solo shows:
- alive/not\alive, curated by L. Griasnova, Aalto library, Vyborg, 2021-2022
- Non-selectio, cultural center Nevsky 20, St.Petersburg, 2018
- …all should be malapropos, A. Akhmatova museum, St.Petersburg, 2017
- Censorship, Most gallery, St. Petersburg, 2020
- Kalechina, Pereletny Kabak gallery, Moscow, 2020
- The Garbage Museaum, Colomna, 2019

Selected group exhibitions:
- De_colonialanguage, series of interventions with the artist group in Berlin, 2023
- The repressions, (Halle, Germany; Belgrade, Serbia), 2023
- The Myths, Izmailovo gallery, Moscow, 2022
- Superseded Action, ZTI gallery, Moscow, 2022
- The Images of the Future, Krasnokholmskaya gallery, Moscow, 2022
- Pure media art, Fabrika ZTI gallery, Moscow, 2021
- With the care about you, Ekaterinburg, 2020
- New Anthropology, museum of S. Pavlov, 2019
- Levels, Stepan Razin Factory, 2019 - Save and Protect, General Stuff Building, Hermitage, 2018
- Silent Voices, museum in St. Peter and Paul castle, 2017
- Art Tribe, London, 2016

Selected intervention:
- the Little Dutch Masters, Artpunctuation festival, St. Petersburg, 2017