Olga Muravina
«The sculptures by Olga Muravina have a rare quality to please in everyday life, and not only in a gallery or museum. This is living art that you want to keep next to you as a necessary beautiful thing. Her sculptures appeal to deep emotions of playing, security, and tactile communication with the world while at the same time building an aesthetic distance in relation to those non-reflective and basically childish energies that inspire her creativity.
Olga Muravina virtuously masters the form and endows it with the most delicate brutality, perhaps in order to neutralize the pathos that accompanies the maestra and the medium of mastery itself – stone and bronze. Besides those materials of eternity, Shakespeare’s reminder that we are made of the same substance as dreams seems less poetry than a bare fact of reality. Olga Muravina transfers the transitoriness of dreams into materials of eternity, and creates sculptures as a stunning fact of our poetic existence”.
A. Evangeli / Curator, art critic and theorist of contemporary art
Olga Muravina ( OLYA MURAVINA, OMUR ) is a famous Moscow artist. She studied and graduated at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum and Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov. In 2000, she joined the Moscow Union of Artists and Union of Moscow Sculptors, and founded the art-project «Ars forma». In 2008, Olga joined the Moscow Union of Designers.
She has participated in more than 60 exhibitions and art projects in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, USA, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Spain, Monaco, Russia
The works are in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in other museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, Spain, France, Israel, Netherlands, Germany, Monaco, USA, Singapore
Biography:
1975 Was born in Moscow.
1986-1993 Studied and graduated the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum
1993-2000 Studied and graduated the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named
after Surikov V.I.
2000 Received scholarship of the Russian Union of artists.
2000 Joined the Moscow Union of Artists and the Union of Moscow sculptors
2000 Founded art-project «Ars forma»
2008 Joined the Moscow Union of designers
2018 Founded CCAD Metaobject
2023 Joined The Royal Society of Sculptors
2023 Award in the category “Plastic Arts”, status: Particularly outstanding artist, Israel, Tel-Avi
Solo exhibitions:
2010 Personal exhibition, “Small Moscow Paradise”, Center of contemporary art “M`ars”, Moscow.
2010 Personal exhibition, gallery “Noordeinde” in The Hague, the Netherlands
2011 Personal exhibition, “Boy on the sun”, Perm, Usolie.
2013 Personal exhibition «Toys. Perfect World» gallery 11.12 Winzavod Centre of
Contemporary Art
2013 Personal exhibition, Design village, Crocus City, Moscow.
2013 Personal exhibition, «Toys. Perfect World», Museum “Сhamber of the Stroganovs”, Usolie.
2015 Personal exhibition, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
2018 Solo exhibition, “Easy reverie”, Alabriga, Spain
2020 Solo exhibition of Urban Sculpture in Gorky Park, Moscow
2021 Solo exhibition Abramova Gallery, St. Petersburg
International art festivals, art fairs:
2006 «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2007 «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2008 «Art-Manege», gallery «AG», Manege, Moscow
2009 «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2009 “Open art fair” in Utrecht, the Netherlands
2009 “ARTI09” in The Hague, the Netherlands
2009 “Art-Manege”, gallery “Art Kvartal”, Manege, Moscow
2013 NordArt -2013. International Contemporary Art Fair Germany, Büdelsdorf
2014 NordArt-2014 International Contemporary Art Fair Germany, Büdelsdorf
2015 Affordable art fair, Singapore
List of exhibitions:
2022 Group exhibition, award Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
2021 Solo exhibition Abramova Gallery, St. Petersburg
2021 Exhibition “Animalia” in ROSIZO, Moscow
2020 Exhibition of Urban Sculpture in Gorky Park, Moscow
2020 Batimat Moscow 2020 / Global design, Crocus Expo, Moscow
2020 Exhibition Association of Moscow Sculptors, Kuznetsky Most 11, Moscow
2019 Exhibition Escape, Ingallery, CSI Cube.Moscow, Moscow
2018 Exhibition of Modern Urban Sculpture, Technopark, Skolkovo, Moscow
2018 Arshortus Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow State University “Aptekarsky Ogorod” Botanical Garden, Moscow
2018 Solo exhibition, “Easy reverie”, Alabriga, Spain
2018 “Creative Environments”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2017 East West Gallery, Art Play, Moscow
2017 Exhibition of the association of Moscow sculptors in the ESC ” Divny», Moscow
2016 Exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the gallery 11/12, CSI ” Winzavod» Moscow
2016 Exhibition of the Association of Moscow Sculptors, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
2015 Affordable art fair, Singapore
2015 Personal exhibition, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
2015 Landscape Design Exhibition “Gardens and People”, Sokolniki Park, Moscow
2015 “Zero Kilometer” Association of Moscow Sculptors, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
2014 Exhibition “Russian Contemporary Art”, Carré Doré gallery, Monaco
2014 “Illusions” open-air sculpture exhibition, Kolomenskoye Museum, Moscow
2014 “Usadba Jazz”, Arkhangelskoe Museum-Park, Moscow
2014 «Russian Contemporary Art», Carré Doré gallery, Monaco
2014 NordArt-2014 International Contemporary Art Fair Germany, Büdelsdorf
2014 Moscow sculptors’ Association Moscow sculptors, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
2013 11.12 Gallery’s First Anniversary , Singapore
2013 «Mixed Media3» gallery 11.12 Winzavod Centre For Contemporary Art, Moscow
2013 Personal exhibition, «Toys. Perfect World», Сhamber of the Stroganovs, Usolie.
2013 Carré Doré Collection, Galerie Carré Doré, Monaco
2013 NordArt -2013. International Contemporary Art Fair Germany, Büdelsdorf
2013 Personal exhibition «Toys. Perfect World» gallery 11.12 Winzavod Centre For
Contemporary Art
2012 “Art mosaic. From Russia with love” Gallery 11.12 in Singapore
2012 «Mixed Media2» gallery 11.12 Winzavod Centre For Contemporary Art, Moscow
2011 “Mixed Media. Monochrome” gallery 11.12 Winzavod Centre For Contemporary Art, Moscow
2011 Personal exhibition, “Boy on the sun”, Perm, Usolie.
2010 Personal exhibition, gallery “Noordeinde” in The Hague, the Netherlands
2010 Personal exhibition, “Small Moscow Paradise”, Center of contemporary art “M`ars”, Moscow.
2010 Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists. Central House of Artists, Moscow
2009 “Art-Manege”, gallery “Art Kvartal”, Manege, Moscow
2009 “ARTI09” in The Hague, the Netherlands
2009 “Open art fair” in Utrecht, the Netherlands
2008 «Art-Manege», gallery «AG», Manege, Moscow
2008 Yearly exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2008 Youth’s exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2007 «Moscow Fashion Expo», Crocus-Expo, Moscow
2007 «Youth of Russia» of the Russian Union of Artists. Central House of Artists, Moscow
2007 «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2006 «Assembly», gallery «Lavrushyn», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2006 «Hudgraph», Trade Center «Tishinka», Moscow
2006 «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2006 «Images», gallery «Lavrushyn», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2005 «Artists of Maslovka», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2004 «Dead season». Artist’s House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
2004 Yearly exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists. Artist’s House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
2004 Yearly exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2003 «70 years of the Moscow Union of Artists». Manege, Moscow.
2002 «Youth of Russia» of the Russian Union of Artists, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2001 Exhibition of degree works. Art Academy of Russia, Moscow
1994 Christmas exhibition in the gallery «Usadba», Moscow
1994 Exhibition of young artists in the gallery «Usadba», Moscow
1994 Exhibition of graduating students of the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum, Moscow