OLYA KROYTOR
(1986)
Live and work in Iceland
Member The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM)
EDUCATION
2008-2009 Institute of Contemporary Art
2007-2008 School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
2003-2008 Moscow Pedagogical State University (Graphic Art Department) (MA)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2020 BOE Art Prize, finalist, Berlin, Germany
2017 Kandinsky Prize: “Project of the Year” /nominated/
2017 “Grant Program for Emerging Artists”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Grant Program for Emerging Artists”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 Kandinsky Prize “Emerging Artist: “Project of the Year” /winner/, Moscow, Russia
2014 Shortlisted for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize: “Best Public Art”, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: “Emerging Artist”, Moscow, Russia
2012 Nominated for the Strabag Art Award, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS:
2024 Scholarship Styria Artist in Residence, Graz, Austria
2023-2024 Artist Residency Skagafjordur, Iceland
2022 SÍM Residency (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund Award: “Visual Art”, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2015 Center for Contemporary Art Zarya Residency, Vladivostok, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 “Witness“, Keil Gallery, Graz, Austria
2023 “Trial | Process”, Syntax Gallery
2022 “Næsta Stopp Er”, Ganginum Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021 “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”, Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Excluding Equilibrium”, A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazahstan
2016 “The Coordinates of Disappearance”, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 “On the Other Side”, Artwin Gallery, Kicik Qalart, Baku, Azerbajjan
2015 “Time That Exists”, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2015 “Eight Situations”, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Extras”, Komnata Gallery, Theater of the School of Modern Drama, Moscow, Russia
2012 “Affiches et Collages“, RussenKo Festival, Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
2011 “Dissociative Identity Disorder”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
2011 “Something Nothing”, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024
“Fictional Landscapes“, Foundry, Dubai, UAE
“Flinta* Perspectives“, Keil Gallery, Graz, Austria
2023
“Forty Years of The Corridor“, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2022
“A! - Gjörningahátíð“, Performance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
“Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig“, Korpúlfsstaðir Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021
“The Homecoming“, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
“Named by Vasari. Gothic“, Volgo-Vyatsky branch of the The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
“A Time to Embrace and to Refrain From Embracing“, 6th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Project “Exit From the Gallows"(performance), Yekaterinburg circus, Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Zverev Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition“, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“Festival of New Russian Videoart“, GUM-Cinema, Moscow, Russia
“Given Circumstances“, performance, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020
“The Session“, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Bon Voyage“, Galerie Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
"One Hundred Landscapes for One Person", The Tretyakov State Galley, Vladivostok, Russia
"Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF)"; Fakel, Salut, Zvezda Cinema, Moscow, Russia
“GENERATION XXI. Donated by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin“, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“The -Fe Male“, Home Performance Art Festival, online
“The Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present“, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“2020-2070“, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2019
“A-Real Film Festival #2”,Studio 4413, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Adaptation“, K. A. Timiryazevs State Biological Museum, Moscow, Russia
“A-Real Film Festival #1”, Electro Museum, Moscow, Russia
“Sky is always clear” (reenactment of Yoko Ono's “Water Event”), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
“Listen to me. New Archive of Limited Edition Art – 2019”, New Tretyakov State Galley, Moscow, Russia
“Public and private”, Cube Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“XII International Art Symposium "Alanika"”, National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
“The organs of perception of art”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“7th Festival of Contemporary Art “Tsiolkovskiy””, Innovative cultural center, Kaluga area, Russia
“Solyanka Art Squat Forum”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Red Arrow. Moscow — Saint Petersburg, a look from the 1980s”, Heritage House, Belgrade, Serbia
“SOS. Russia”, Embassy of Austria in Moscow, Moscow, Russia
“In Residence: From the Collection of Zarya Center for Contemporary Art”, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
“Invited By”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
“Co-autor”, Creative Industrial Cluster "Octave", Tula, Russia
“The Marvellous Cacophony”, Belgrade biennale of contemporary art, 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
“2344. Penetration”, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
“Anatomy of fairytale”, Pörnbach Contemporary, Munich, Germany
“Hair”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
“CREATurE Live Art: International Performance Art Festival”, Post Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
“New Literacy”, 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Project “Decay"(video art), Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Empatheia“, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
“Siberian Utopia“, KANSK International Architectural Festival, Kansk, Russia
“A quoi rêvent les forêts? “, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France
“Luther und die Avantgarde“, Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany
“Man as Bird. Images of Journeys“, Special Project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for La Biennale di Venezia 57th International Art Exhibition, Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice, Italy
“Internal Manifesto“, Ground Hodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Prokofiev’s 3D Dimension“, Sergei Prokofiev Museum, Moscow, Russia
“Dream Movie Theater”, Ground Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
“DIALOGUE: Contemporary Art From Russia“, KBS Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
“Transcendent Piano Festival”, Muzeon Park of Arts, Moscow, Russia
“After Glamour”, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Shelter”, Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Moscow, Russia
“DADA Festival”, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
“Co-Author“, Center of City Culture, Perm, Russia
“BALAGAN. Contemporary Art From the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places“, Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany
“Martyr“, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
“Practice Contact”, 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“Remember Tomorrow”, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
“ARTBAT FEST 6“, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Influence“, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia
“The Fest”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“People in the City“, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
“Ceremonial Portrait”, 50A Studio, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History“, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
“SAY IT> vol.1“, Vienna, Austria
“What We Hear, When We Look? “, Parallel Program Manifesta'10, First Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg, Russia
“A Time for Dreams“, Main project of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
“Moscow. Barocco“, Parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Don't Even Dream!“, Parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Do It“, Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“After the Comic“, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
“Stability. Ghosts”, Random Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Always in the Vanguard”, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, England
“Part of the Whole“, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“Expansion of the Subject”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
“Out of the Forest“, Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Kaluga Region, Russia
2012
“The Reset”, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“V_museum - Platform Moscow”, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
“Between Heaven and Earth“, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art”, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
“2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art” (Main Project), Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Price”, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“RussenKo”, Kremlin-Bicetre City Hall, Kremlin-Bicetre, France
“Triple Reflection”, Studio Kopecks, Moscow, Russia
“Vglaz”, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011
“Employment History”, Project_Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
“Run”, ArtSquat Forum, Moscow, Russia
“Nuts”, Regina Gallery, London, England
“9 Days”, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Space Art”, ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“MODESTY”, FLACON Factory, Moscow, Russia
“Malevich Spiral”, KOMNATA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Russian Landscape”, M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010
“A lot - A lot”, Gallery on Vspolny, Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Moscow, Russia
“ArtDiplom 2010”, Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
Independent project within Art Moscow 2010, Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
“DO NOT DISTURB”, Biennale for Young Art, ‘Science 254’, Moscow, Russia
“No Translations”, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Bozar”, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Fresco» Part I: “Shadow's Thirty Six Friends”, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
“Can’t Take It Anymore”, VCSI, Voronezh, Russia
“Sputnik Art”, TSUM, Moscow, Russia
“Art After the End of History”, Central Artist's House, Moscow, Russia
“Graphics”, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Second Square”, Open Scene Space, Moscow, Russia
“Let Me Think”, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow, Russia
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Performative program of the festival dedicated to World AIDS Day "One Blood", Voznesensky Center, Moscow, Russia /2020/
"Body as a Media", The 8th Days of Contemporary Art (DOCA) International Festival, Gum-Red-Line Gallery, Moscow, Russia /2020/
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
2020 Public-talk, International Festival-School of Contemporary Art "Territory", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 Talk about performance. Episode 2. Offline vs Online », Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 "Blood, violence and transgression. Does transgression work today?" (Second season of the podcast “Life as a Performance”), Storytel
2019 "Original or copy? Editions techniques in contemporary art" /talk/
2019 Artist-talk, Stary Oskol Art Museum, Stary Oscol, Russia
2019 Workshop for MOCT Contemporary Russia Arts Foundation at the Cube. Moscow public space
2019 Public-talk, North Caucasian branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art, Vladikavkaz, Russia
2019 Summer performance school for kids, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, Russia
2019 The educational environment, Moscow, Russia
2019 “7th Festival of Contemporary Art“Tsiolkovskiy””, Innovative cultural center, Kaluga area, Russia
2019 Galerie Solvay, Paris, France
2019 Feminization of Art Environment, Festival Communications, Media and Design, Digital Business Space, Moscow, Russia
2019 Higher School of Economics Art and Design School, Moscow, Russia
2019 Creative Industrial Cluster "Octave", Tula, Russia
2018 "Performance and actionism" Pioner Cinema, Moscow, Russia
2018 Multicenter "My territory", Tobolsk, Russia
2018 "How do awards and media influence to the creative career of young artists?» Cosmoscow Art Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia
2018 Art + Blockchain, Loft "Aviator", Moscow, Russia
2017 Artist in a changing world, Cosmoscow Art Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia
2017 Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2020 "The art gesture school", Artbat Fest, Almaty, Kazahstan /online/
2016 National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
2016 Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”, Moscow, Russia
2016 "History of Performance", Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2016 Solyanka State Gallery, School of Performance PYRFYR, Moscow, Russia
2016 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016 V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Trechgornaya Factory, Moscow, Russia
2016 A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazahstan
2016 Solyanka State Gallery, PYRFYR Performance School, Moscow, Russia
2015 Cafeteria, Almaty, Kazahstan /public talk/
2015 Solyanka State Gallery, PYRFYR Performance School, Moscow, Russia
2015 Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2014 The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
COLLECTIONS:
MRAC | Musée Régional D’art Contemporain | Sérignan, France
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Dungal Art Foundation, Iceland
The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
AZ Museum, Moscow, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Gogova Art Foundation, Russia
Fundación Magnolia, Mexico
Galeria Piotra Nowickiego, Warsaw, Poland
ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Private collections in Austria, England, Germany, Iceland, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia, USA
AUCTIONS:
2014 Sotheby's “Contemporary East”, London, England
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-The Institute for The Humanities and Information Technologies ''The Body as Media'' class
2019-The Learning Area ''The Performance Art'' class
2011-2016 The Bauman Moscow State Technical University
class of Drawing and Descriptive Geometry