Olesya Gonserovskaya

Artis Statement
Olesya Gonserovskaya (b. 1987, Leningrad) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of ecology, psychology and anthropology. These themes unfold in multi-layered projects that bring together traditional and contemporary media. Her visual language is shaped through media installations, video, performance, drawing, and sculpture. She also incorporates sewing and assemblage into her object-based works. She creates a space for choice and individual experience, aiming to preserve an open artistic form — without a fixed trajectory, without a set of ready-made interpretations.

Gonserovskaya is interested in how cultural codes, symbols and traditions can be reassembled and perceived anew. Her approach is based on returning outdated images and phenomena to the present, questioning their potential relevance today. This strategy is evident in works such as Alphabet (2022), where everyday sayings become metaphors; Peace Signal (2024), where a peace message is translated into Braille and becomes part of a performance involving a mirror; and alive/not\alive (2020–2021), in which ecology-themed objects blend into the space of a modernist library, subtly provoking response and testing how alive and mobile patterns ...

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

Selected solo shows:
▶ Root Directory, :DDD Kunst House, Yerevan, Armenia, 2025
▶ me[RROR], Alexander gallery, Rose, Montenegro, 2025
▶ The Teardrop of the Last Fossil Creature, Ria Keburia Residency, 2023 - 2024
▶ 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:
✴ Virus. Artist Against Kremlin, deBaille, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025
✴ Take a Seat, de_colonialanguage + independent curator Irina Denkmann, Frankfurt→Germany, 2025
✴ Signal, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, 2024
✴ Rubezh, IV International Instant Exhibition of Émigré Art, Tbilisi→Sakartvelo[Georgia], 2024
✴ Graphic Arts Exhibition, Flash Art Gallery, Tallinn→Estonia, 2024
✴ Represije. Torture. Rat. Rusija, Halle→Germany; Belgrade→Serbia, 2023
✴ To Be a Plant, New Delhi→India, 2023
✴ The Sphere, CICA Museum, South Korea, 2023
✴ The Myths, Izmailovo gallery, Moscow, 2022
✴ Superseded Action, ZTI gallery, Moscow, 2022
✴ The Images of the Future, Krasnokhol...