Olga Grotova b. 1986

Olga resides and works in London and Paris.

 

EDUCATION

2014–2016 Royal College of Art, Painting MA, London, Great Britain

2011–2012 Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Visual Art, London, Great Britain

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Track II (collaboration with Ahmad Fuad Osman), DRC no. 12, Beijing, China

2023 The Friendship Garden, Studio Voltaire, London, Great Britain

2023 Olga Grotova, Cromwell Place, London, Great Britain

2023 Door to Door, The Shophouse, Hong Kong, China

2023 I’ll Tell My Daughter - Film Exhibition, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2019 Debris on a Luminous Plain, Centrala, Birmingham, Great Britain

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Re-enchantment, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2023 Abstract Reality, Kadist, Paris, France

2023 Traces of a Cathode, S1, Sheffield, Great Britain

2022 Our Grandmothers’ Gardens, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France

2022 Meeting Photography, NIDA, Vilnius, Lithuania

2022 Friendship Garden Audio Project, Silence, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2022 Unicorn and the Lost Kingdom, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2021 The Fifth Wave, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2021 Olga Grotova, Josefina Nelimarkka, and Alexander Montague-Sparey, Cromwell Place, London, Great Britain

2020 Apparent Movements, Gromov Culture Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

2019 Carrying Histories, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway

2019 Waters of the Volga, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway

2019 Sans (T)rêve Et Sans Merci, Cube.Moscow Art Venue, Moscow, Russia

2018 XVII. The Age of Nymphs, Mimosa House, London, Great Britain

2018 The First Reading (Performance), Mimosa House, London, Great Britain

2017 Blue. 17, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2017 Seventeen, Centala, Birmingham, Great Britain

2016 RCA Degree Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain

2016 Notes App, Dyson Gallery, London, Great Britain

2015 WIP show, Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain

2015 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, Great Britain

2013 Tamizdat, New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia

2013 Megabodega, Family Business Gallery, New York, USA

2012 Performance, Ritual, Symbolic Action: Rite as Play, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain

2012 A Joyful Archipelago’ Guest Projects, London, Great Britain

2012 A Spring That We Have All Been Waiting For (Performance), Guest Projects, London, Great Britain

2012 Coup D’Etat, Arthaus, London, Great Britain

2012 Guest from the Future, Galerie8, London, Great Britain

 

RESIDENCIES

2024 Dragon Hill, Mouans-Sartoux, France

2023 Schoeni Projects, Hong Kong, China

2023 Centre Recollects, Paris, France

2022 Cosmological Garden, CAD+SR (led by Pelin Tan and Rirkrit Tiravanija), Spoleto, Italy

2020–2021 Syllabus VI, Wysing Art Center in collaboration with Spike Island, Iniva, Studio Voltaire Gallery and Eastside Projects Gallery, Great Britain

2019 PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2022 Prix Decouvert, Les Rencontres d'Arles (special mention)

2021 Space Artist Award

2021 DYCP Award

2021 Field Research Grant from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

2021 Grant from Elephant Trust Fund