Olga Rikun

Joined Artfinder: April 2020

Artworks for sale: 19

(3)

Russian Federation

About Olga Rikun

 
 
  • Biography
    Born in Kazakhstan in Almaty. Graduated from the Alma-Ata Art College.
    She received her second education in Moscow at the studio school at the Moscow Art Theater (University). Scenographer by profession. As a graphic designer, she developed many projects in leading advertising agencies in Moscow. I have been painting since 2011. I cooperate with galleries and take part in exhibitions in Moscow. I am a resident of the gallery ReloftArt and ArtDefa. She took part in the ArtAnkara fair 2023. Works are in private collections in Russia, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA.
    I study the conceptual qualities of abstraction, accumulating my own design background and aesthetic experiences of the neo-avantgarde. In my projects I plan to continue the modernist experiment, to study the correlations of abstraction and figurative painting. And I prove that the discovery of the avant-garde artists can be rethought today, in new relevant discourses.
    Any image correlates with a symbol. Regardless of how abstract a pictorial image is, in human perception it certainly acquires a linguistic form. This process is intuitive, spontaneous. Is it possible to reassemble the meanings of painting itself and the visual code itself? Where is the limit between reference and pure abstraction? I initiate such a reassembly in my works, rethinking the boundaries of painting.
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  • Education

    1988 - 1993

    School-studio (university) at the Moscow Art Theater. Nemirovich-Danchenko

    1984 - 1988

    Alma-Ata Art School named after Gogol.

  • Awards

    2020

    1 prize

    FEMALE IMAGE festival & art contest
    Nomination: In harmony with nature
    1 prize
    Rikun Olga Viktorovna
    Competition title: Italian morning

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    2017

    Diploma for participation in the exhibition "Art-Summer 2017"

    Diploma for participation in the exhibition "Art-Summer 2017" in the framework of the international project "Let's talk about beauty". For professional and spiritual contribution to the creative heritage and development of modern painting.

    2016

    Certificate of honor

    Certificate of honor for participation in the exhibition "Ancient and Contemporary Rus". For a creative approach that brings a purely personal feeling and intuition.
  • Upcoming Events

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    Event: Sandbox Manual

    Dates: 21 Apr 2023 - 22 Apr 2023

    Venue: DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART (DOCA) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, Moscow

    This year, organisers of the festival offer participants to approach modern art through a game. We agree with Marcel Duchamp that art is «a game between all people of all times». And game is a mutual language and communication that creates «relationship space» through a creative dialogue between artists, art, and a spectator.

    Event: Art Ankara 2023

    Dates: 9 Mar 2023 - 11 Mar 2023

    Venue: Art Ankara 2023, Ankara

    Group exhibition "Weightlessness" with Fedini Gallery at the Ankara International Fair

    Event: Everything will be fine!!!

    Dates: 25 Dec 2022 - 30 Mar 2023

    Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art ARTMUZA, Saint Petersburg

    At the heart of every painting, sculpture, installation is a story or life event that happened to the author, or that did not leave him indifferent, prompting him to create a creative project with the life-affirming idea “everything will be fine.”

    Event: Weightlessness

    Dates: 15 Dec 2022 - 15 Jan 2023

    Venue: FEDINI Gallery, Moscow

    The theme of the project is “Weightlessness” (zero gravity). Absence of matter as support. A look at emotions, feelings, relationships, state, space, objects of existence, the universe.

    Event: Not touching the body

    Dates: 7 Sep 2022 - 24 Nov 2022

    Venue: YYmodern Art Fond, Moscow

    Group exhibition dedicated to the bohemian figure Serge Gainsbourg

    Event: FEMALE IMAGE festival & art contest

    Dates: 2 Nov 2020 - 7 Nov 2020

    Venue: Exhibition and Convention Center "Danilovsky", Moskow

    Category "Correspondence form of participation" Competitive nomination: In harmony with nature 1 prize Rikun Olga Viktorovna Competition title: Italian morning

    Event: Ancient and modern Russia

    Dates: 2 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

    Venue: Museum Center. N.A. Ostrovsky, Moscow. Russia

    The purpose of this exhibition is the diversity and diversity of creative tasks, the free self-expression of the authors of the project allows us to fully reveal the Russian-Slavic theme, look into its very essence and show its true charm, greatness and inexhaustible depth of folk legends.

    Event: Art-Summer 2017

    Dates: 1 Jun 2017 - 22 Jun 2017

    Venue: Central House of Artists, Moscow. Russia

    Final exhibition of summer 2017 The artists participated with their summer and plein air art.

    Event: We are together

    Dates: 2 Feb 2016 - 27 Feb 2016

    Venue: "Muses flocked in a playful crowd.", Moscow. Russia

    She took part in the International Art Project "We Are Together" in the exhibition "Muses flocked in a playful crowd." The exhibition was held at the Moscow House of Amateur Art. Moscow.

    Event: Stork on the roof

    Dates: 14 May 2015 - 12 Jun 2015

    Venue: State Darwin Museum, Moscow. Russia

    The main condition for participation in the exhibition was one thing: to depict the stork "in full growth", as in ancient zoological tomes. This task might seem quite difficult to the contestants, because the growth of a long-legged bird is more than one meter, and the wingspan is all two! The results exceeded all expectations! About 70 storks from all over Russia, as well as from Bulgaria, Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Portugal and Italy, flocked to the roof of the Darwin Museum. You will see 16 original paintings, many of them were painted recently, especially for the exhibition. Painters in different ways reflected in them the winged symbol of happiness. For example, OV Rikun, in his work "Black Storks", works only on birds in detail, leaving the color of the canvas untouched.

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Education

1988 - 1993

School-studio (university) at the Moscow Art Theater. Nemirovich-Danchenko

1984 - 1988

Alma-Ata Art School named after Gogol.


Awards

2020

1 prize

FEMALE IMAGE festival & art contest
Nomination: In harmony with nature
1 prize
Rikun Olga Viktorovna
Competition title: Italian morning

Show more awards Hide

2017

Diploma for participation in the exhibition "Art-Summer 2017"

Diploma for participation in the exhibition "Art-Summer 2017" in the framework of the international project "Let's talk about beauty". For professional and spiritual contribution to the creative heritage and development of modern painting.

2016

Certificate of honor

Certificate of honor for participation in the exhibition "Ancient and Contemporary Rus". For a creative approach that brings a purely personal feeling and intuition.

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Sandbox Manual

Dates: 21 Apr 2023 - 22 Apr 2023

Venue: DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART (DOCA) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, Moscow

This year, organisers of the festival offer participants to approach modern art through a game. We agree with Marcel Duchamp that art is «a game between all people of all times». And game is a mutual language and communication that creates «relationship space» through a creative dialogue between artists, art, and a spectator.

Event: Art Ankara 2023

Dates: 9 Mar 2023 - 11 Mar 2023

Venue: Art Ankara 2023, Ankara

Group exhibition "Weightlessness" with Fedini Gallery at the Ankara International Fair

Event: Everything will be fine!!!

Dates: 25 Dec 2022 - 30 Mar 2023

Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art ARTMUZA, Saint Petersburg

At the heart of every painting, sculpture, installation is a story or life event that happened to the author, or that did not leave him indifferent, prompting him to create a creative project with the life-affirming idea “everything will be fine.”

Event: Weightlessness

Dates: 15 Dec 2022 - 15 Jan 2023

Venue: FEDINI Gallery, Moscow

The theme of the project is “Weightlessness” (zero gravity). Absence of matter as support. A look at emotions, feelings, relationships, state, space, objects of existence, the universe.

Event: Not touching the body

Dates: 7 Sep 2022 - 24 Nov 2022

Venue: YYmodern Art Fond, Moscow

Group exhibition dedicated to the bohemian figure Serge Gainsbourg

Event: FEMALE IMAGE festival & art contest

Dates: 2 Nov 2020 - 7 Nov 2020

Venue: Exhibition and Convention Center "Danilovsky", Moskow

Category "Correspondence form of participation" Competitive nomination: In harmony with nature 1 prize Rikun Olga Viktorovna Competition title: Italian morning

Event: Ancient and modern Russia

Dates: 2 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

Venue: Museum Center. N.A. Ostrovsky, Moscow. Russia

The purpose of this exhibition is the diversity and diversity of creative tasks, the free self-expression of the authors of the project allows us to fully reveal the Russian-Slavic theme, look into its very essence and show its true charm, greatness and inexhaustible depth of folk legends.

Event: Art-Summer 2017

Dates: 1 Jun 2017 - 22 Jun 2017

Venue: Central House of Artists, Moscow. Russia

Final exhibition of summer 2017 The artists participated with their summer and plein air art.

Event: We are together

Dates: 2 Feb 2016 - 27 Feb 2016

Venue: "Muses flocked in a playful crowd.", Moscow. Russia

She took part in the International Art Project "We Are Together" in the exhibition "Muses flocked in a playful crowd." The exhibition was held at the Moscow House of Amateur Art. Moscow.

Event: Stork on the roof

Dates: 14 May 2015 - 12 Jun 2015

Venue: State Darwin Museum, Moscow. Russia

The main condition for participation in the exhibition was one thing: to depict the stork "in full growth", as in ancient zoological tomes. This task might seem quite difficult to the contestants, because the growth of a long-legged bird is more than one meter, and the wingspan is all two! The results exceeded all expectations! About 70 storks from all over Russia, as well as from Bulgaria, Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Portugal and Italy, flocked to the roof of the Darwin Museum. You will see 16 original paintings, many of them were painted recently, especially for the exhibition. Painters in different ways reflected in them the winged symbol of happiness. For example, OV Rikun, in his work "Black Storks", works only on birds in detail, leaving the color of the canvas untouched.


 

Biography

Born in Kazakhstan in Almaty. Graduated from the Alma-Ata Art College.
She received her second education in Moscow at the studio school at the Moscow Art Theater (University). Scenographer by profession. As a graphic designer, she developed many projects in leading advertising agencies in Moscow. I have been painting since 2011. I cooperate with galleries and take part in exhibitions in Moscow. I am a resident of the gallery ReloftArt and ArtDefa. She took part in the ArtAnkara fair 2023. Works are in private collections in Russia, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA.
I study the conceptual qualities of abstraction, accumulating my own design background and aesthetic experiences of the neo-avantgarde. In my projects I plan to continue the modernist experiment, to study the correlations of abstraction and figurative painting. And I prove that the discovery of the avant-garde artists can be rethought today, in new relevant discourses.
Any image correlates with a symbol. Regardless of how abstract a pictorial image is, in human perception it certainly acquires a linguistic form. This process is intuitive, spontaneous. Is it possible to reassemble the meanings of painting itself and the visual code itself? Where is the limit between reference and pure abstraction? I initiate such a reassembly in my works, rethinking the boundaries of painting.