About Olga Chertova
Biography
Olga Chertova is awarded international artist with more than 40 shows. World Widely collected.
Olga Chertova, Russian born, has her studio in Kaliningrad, Russia. Kaliningrad is an “enclave” with an unwelcome climate of high humidity and overcast skies. It has German roots, called Koenigsberg before World War II, the city has had a profound influence on Olga’s style and vision. The combination of German and Soviet history with modern Russia has played a major role in her development as an artist. Inspired by the locale and its population, Olga Chertova creates personages based on real people but modified through the power of her imagination. Her color palette stands in opposition to the Baltic region’s grey surroundings, mostly cloudy with only short bursts of sunshine. The primary focus of her art is to reconstitute various identities into new characters; surrealistic elements and abstract colors dominate. Documentary sketches become new personalities, extending and augmenting the real. Emotionally tense portraits rely on high volumes of color, allowing new voices to be heard. Her brushstrokes suggest the feeling of “punk” freedom. In most of her work, Olga utilizes pareidolia illusions to further explore realities below the surface. Olga Chertova works with oil and acrylic on canvas and paper. She is widely collected by private collectors. Here, at Artfinder selling platform, you may discover and buy her paintings, drawings and sculptures.Solo exhibitions
2024/02 Amber Hall, Rhythm of Warmness, Svetlogorsk
2021/11 Dom Kultury, Selected drawings,Kaliningrad
2021/03 Vinifera Art sessions, selected drawings, Kaliningrad
2021/02 Port Art Space, Kaliningrad
2013 Mayday Gallery, Riga, Juicy Sex
2009 Rolberg Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia, Olga Chertova Drawings
2009 Center of French language, Kaliningrad, What do I wish to tell in French
Group exhibitions
2024/05 Kenig Art Fair, Kaliningrad
2024/05 Art space Zarya, Kaliningrad, Dom festival
2024/03 Fabric Art Space, Kaliningrad, Body Poetry
2023/05 Nabrosok Art Festival, Kaliningrad
2021/11 Signal art space, Kaliningrad, Gips project
2021/03 Art Cluster, Kaliningrad, duo x Almiro
2020/10 Art Vorota, Kaliningrad, Foton art festival
2020/09 Tolstoy House, Kaliningrad, September exhibition
2020/03 Port Art space, Kaliningrad, 8 Marka
2019/12 National center of contemporarу art, Kaliningrad, M ART
2019/12 Kaliningrad Regional Youth Center, Nabrosok Art Festival
2019/3 Port Art space, Kaliningrad, Opening exhibition
2018/12 Kaliningrad Regional Youth Center, Nabrosok Art Festival
2018/11 Kaliningrad Museum of Art, Slovision
2018 Horizons of creativity, Kaliningrad, Union of Artists of Russia
2011 Sensation Modern Gallery, London, Sensation Modern artists
2011 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Epson photo contest
2011 Showcase London, London, Showcase cities project
2010 Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, Photo vernissage
2010 M'ars contemporary art center, Moscow, Epson photo contest
2009 CS Alternativa, Kaliningrad, Autumn exhibition
2009 Museum of history and art, Kaliningrad, An instant of color
2009 CS Alternativa, Kaliningrad, Photocontact
2009 CS Alternativa, Kaliningrad, Protest
2008 Klints Gallery project, Liepaya, Latvia, Liepaya’s Marina Exhibition
2007 Torun through the Twin Camera Lens, Torun, Poland
2007 Kaliningrad art gallery, Kaliningrad, Photomania
2006 Museum of world ocean, Kaliningrad, Salt of water
2005 Museum of world ocean, Kaliningrad, Taste of water
2005 Kaliningrad art gallery, Kaliningrad, Photomania
2002 Kaliningrad art gallery, Kaliningrad, Young art exhibition
Awards
2018/12 Nabrosok Art Festival, I prize/Installation
2011 Professional Photographer of the Year (PROTY 2010 Interiors/architecture ), shortlist
2010/11 Epson photo competition Russia 2010, II prize
2009/10 Epson photo competition Russia 2009, II prize/objects
Projects
2024/05 Kenig Art Fair, Kaliningrad
2009 Center of French language, Kaliningrad, What do I wish to tell in French
2007 CS Alternativa, Kaliningrad, PhotoPoetry
Curatorial work
2024/05 Kenig Art Fair, Kaliningrad
2007 CS Alternativa, Kaliningrad, PhotoPoetry
Residences
2010 Berkovo, Poland,Gardens: Deserted island IV
2009 Czaplinek, Poland
2008 Liepaya, Latvia, Liepaya’s Marina
Charity
Drawing dreams foundation (artist helping children programm), CA, USA
