Olga Tobreluts

Olga Tobreluts (, born Olga Vladimirovna Komarova; December 3, 1970) is a contemporary painter and multi-media artist.

Life and work
Olga Tobreluts was born on December 3, 1970, in the Murino village, Leningrad Oblast, USSR. In 1988 she graduated from the Leningrad College of Architecture and the following year she entered the Faculty of Architecture at the Leningrad State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. She attended the Leningrad Academy of Arts as a free student.

In 1989, Tobreluts created the Laboratory for the Study of Ornament at the "A-Z" Society in Leningrad. In 1989-1990 she worked in the Evgeny Ditrich Architectural Bureau in Saint Petersburg. In 1991-1993 Tobreluts studied at the "ART+COM" Institute in Berlin. She pioneered the use of digital media in the Russian art scene. The art critic Bruce Sterling called her "Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer".

Olga Tobreluts was a leading member of Timur Novikov’s "New Academicians" active in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s. In 1994, she became a professor in the Department of new technologies in this association. In 1998, Tobreluts opened the center for the study of photography at the "Mama" club. In 2012, she founded the non-profit organisation "Saint Petersburg New Academy". After the death of Timur Novikov, Tobreluts acted as curator of many exhibitions dedicated to St. Petersburg neo-academic art.

In 2016, Olga Tobreluts was elected to Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. From 2019 she is a member of Pacsa Art Community. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Budapest and Pacsa.

Awards

 * 2021. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award for Best Visual Art Project, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 2016. First Prize, Lenstar Lenticular Print Award, Düsseldorf, Germany within DRUPA, the world largest printing equipment exhibition
 * 2014. Award of President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
 * 2000. Art of the Future, Taipei, Taiwan
 * 1998. Second Prize, «Best European Computer Graphics», GRIFFELKUNST Festival, Hamburg, Germany
 * 1998. International Award for the video art «The Manifest of Neoakademism», Karlsruhe, Germany
 * 1995. The Audience Sympathy Award on the exhibition of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1995. First prize in «Videovision» for the video «Woe from Wit» on the Third Reality, International Forum of computer art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1995. The Audience Sympathy Award, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
 * 1993. Award of First International Art Forum of computer art «Graphikon» for the video «Woe from Wit», Saint Petersburg, Russia

Works in collections

 * Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
 * Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
 * Bornholm Art Museum, Bornholm, Denmark
 * The Parkview Museum, Beijing-Singapore
 * Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
 * Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
 * Déri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary
 * Corfu Heritage Foundation, Corfu, Greece
 * Art Center, Erfurt, Germany
 * National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
 * The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
 * GAS Galleria, Bologna, Italy
 * UVG (Ural Vision Gallery), Ekaterinburg, Russia
 * Gasunie Foundation, Groningen Museum, Netherlands
 * Ibsen Foundation, Oslo, Norway
 * Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
 * Mario Testino Foundation, Lima, Peru
 * Museum GRIFFELKUNST, Hamburg, Germany
 * Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Martiniplaza Collection, Groningen, Netherlands
 * Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
 * Aslan Chekhoyev New Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Nizhni Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhni Tagil, Russia
 * Galleria d’arte moderna Achille Forti, Verona, Italy
 * Revoltella Museum, Triest, Italy
 * The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * The Museum of Political History of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Wolfgang Joop Foundation, Germany
 * Bonn Women's Museum, Bonn, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibition

 * 2023. New Mythology. Estonian National Museum (ERM), Tartu, Estonia (with catalog)
 * 2020. Back on Bornholm. Bornholm Kunstmuseum, Bornholm, Denmark (with catalog)
 * 2019. Transcoded Structures — Before and After Media in Abstraction. OSTEN Pavilion of the
 * 2019. Republic of North Macedonia, Venice Biennale, Italy (with catalog). Curated by Zsolt Petranyi
 * 2018. Pieta and Resurrection. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
 * 2018. Mythology Reloaded. MODEM, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary (with catalog)
 * 2017. New Mythology. Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary (with catalog)
 * 2015. New Abilities. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
 * 2015. Heaven Landscapes. Name Gallery, within the parallel program of Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 2015. New Mythology. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
 * 2015. New Mythology. County Museum, Rovinj, Croatia
 * 2013. New Mythology. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (with catalog)
 * 2013. Contemporary Russian Women Artists. The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
 * 2013. New Mythology. VISIVA Museum, Rome, Italy
 * 2013. New Mythology. Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia
 * 2013. Modernisation. MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium
 * 2013. New Mythology. Koltsovo Airport, Ekaterinburg, Russia
 * 2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Kira Sapgir
 * 2013. «Troo-Lya-Lya’s Bag», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Alexander Borovsky «Art History For Dogs», National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
 * 2013. Exhibition of drawings and presentation of illustrations for the book by Kira Sapgir
 * 2012. New Mythology. Church of Santa Maria dei Battuti, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy (with catalog)
 * 2012. New Mythology. AP Contemporary, Hong Kong
 * 2012. Pieta and Resurrection. Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
 * 2008. Olga Tobreluts. Nizny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizny Tagil, Russia
 * 2008. Tarquin and Lucretia. Zelinsky Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
 * 2003. Art Digital. MARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2003. Emperor and Galilean. Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway (with catalog)
 * 2003. Emperor and Galilean. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
 * 2003. Sacred Figures. Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
 * 2002. Abstract Landscape. Fotoimage Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 2001. Olga Tobreluts. Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany
 * 2001.Dream of Alexander the Great. Freud Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 2001. Tobreluts. Gallery of Contemporary Art, San Marino
 * 2000. Allegory. Freud Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 2000. Sommarustillinga, Sacred Figures. Seljord Kunstforening, Norway (with catalog)
 * 1999. Fear of O.T., Gallery 21, Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre. FNO project, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
 * 1999. Mixed Media. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (with catalog)
 * 1999. Labours of Hercules. Gallo-Roman Museum, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1999. Models. Photogallery of Turku, Finland
 * 1999. Latest works. With P.M.M.K. Ostende Art Kiosk, Belgium
 * 1999. Models. Photo Art Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1998. Family Portrait. Kochubei Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1998. Odisseus. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 1997. Photographs. Mixed Media. ARTKIOSK, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1996. Olga Tobreluts. Photocenter, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 1996. Computer Photographs. New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1996. Computer Art. New Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1996. Trends in photographs. Small Manege, Moscow, Russia
 * 1995. Emperor Reflections. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 1995. Videoinstallation «Third Reality», within Videovision festival and SCARP exhibition.
 * 1995. Planetarium, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1994. Emperor Reflections. Exhibition of computer photographes. Ethnographic Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * 1993. Woe from Wit. First International Forum of Computer Art, Grafikon, Exploratory Laboratory, Moscow, Russia