The Russian Academy Of Arts

Organized to mark the 40th anniversary of the creative work by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Olga Pobedova, the exhibition presents the artist’s optical glass objects, installations and photographs. Olga Pobedova is one of the leading masters of art glass. Her works show a distinctive creative style, a wide range of themes and high level of professional craftsmanship. In this exhibition Olga Pobedova acts as an artist- receptualist who showing her works as if in a slide-film makes the “invisible” art process “visible”.

Olga Pobedova was born in 1950. In 1973 she graduated from S. Stroganov Moscow State Arts and Industrial Institute. She was an active exhibitor in art shows of young artists in the 1970-s – 1980-s. In 1976 Pobedova won the exhibition-competition “The Youth of the Country”, she was also a winner of many All-Russian competitions in the 1980s – 1990s. As a landmark event considers Olga Pobedova her solo exhibition “The Practice of Receptualism” at the Russian Academy of Arts in 2001 and as a major key work - her installation “Anti-Terror” displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery in 2003.

One of her main artistic guidelines is the work by Kazimir Malevich. Olga Pobedova constantly experiments searching for new topics and genres, new systems of signs and stylistics. From separate glass objects and compositions she has gradually come to the creation of big compositions, installations and architectonics.

The show includes works produced in the artist’s favorite genres. Many admirers of Olgs Pobedova’s talent know her as a sculptor using optical glass as a material for her works. In recent years Olga Pobedova works as a monumentalist – she is an author of monuments to Fedor Tyutchev, Nickolai Zabolotsky, victims of Stalin purges, poets-nonconformists and others, as well as a broad-scoped architect and architect-designer. She successfully makes herself known as a graphic artist and painter, photo artist and an author of video art.

Since 1986 Olga Pobedova has been a frequent participant of national and international shows in Belgium, Germany, Australia, Sweden and many other countries. According to the rating of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y, U.S.A in 1995 she was included in 100 of the best contemporary artists in the technique of optical glass. Her works are in museum and private collections in Russia and other countries.

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