Olga Klimovitskaya

oklimovitskaya(at)gmail(dot)com

Olga Klimovitskaya is a multimedia artist from Almaty, b. 1981 (Kazakhstan). Lives in London. Graduated from Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art (Russia) in 2017 with a course New Methods in Contemporary Art.

Olga is a co-founder and resident of APXIV, an artist-run art collective and space, based in Moscow. She participated in the Parallel Program of the 6th Moscow International Biennial of Young Art (APXIV, Moscow, 2018), Copenhagen Art Week 2019 (Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019), Postindustrial APXINALLE (A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts of the Urals, Ekaterinburg, 2020), the online programme of the Biennale ‘Art for the Future’ (The Multimedia Art Museum, 2022).

Among the group exhibitions are Land of Musem (PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, 2019), Presence International Festival of Contemporary Photography (Port Sevkabel, St. Petersburg, 2019, 2020), Communities and Spaces (CCA Vinzavod, Moscow, 2019), Support Group (Cube.Moscow, Moscow, 2020), First Altai Biennial of Contemporary Art (Ust-Koksinsk District, Altai, 2020), and the 7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect (Gaza DK, St. Petersburg, 2020).

Olga works both with traditional media: installations and sculpture, and with digital: 3D, augmented reality, videogames. Her research also includes immersive and procedural practices.






Curatorial projects


2018

Art on demand. APXIV, Moscow, Russia

2017

III International conference Discourse of Other as jouissance. APXIV, Moscow, Russia






Awards and Residencies


2020

CCI Fabrica Residency. Session VII, Moscow, Russia

2017

Duckley Art Center, Kotor, Montenegro







Education


2018

Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art Winter School in Chekhov

2016

Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art Art Summer School in Vishniy Volochek

2015—2017

Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art , ‘New Methods in Contemporary Art’

2012

St. Petersburg Russian Academy of Arts Summer School

1998—2003

St. Petersburg State University, Department of Journalism, Graphic design and Photography Chair