about | Olga Mahno

BIO
I live and work in Moscow. Currently, I’m a teacher of art and visual communication in Universal University and Sechenov University (MSMU) and a regular author of literary magazines. As a philologist I’m working on a thesis "Transmedia translation of a literary text into an animated one." In my practice, I use medium hybrids to create the most voluminous statement possible.

MEDIUMS
installations, ready made , objet trouvé, photography, painting, graphics, collage, digital sculpting , animation plaster. It is important for me to use performative practice, I own physicality, in order to act as a kind of guide between the statement, the realized object and the one who is looking at it.

FOCUS
The main topic is the Space of Timelessness. The ability to observe and reason without haste and pain (as if from the outside) of oneself, people, events and things. Personal and mental memory, mythology, trauma, empathy , relationships, ascesis , the fragility of the world and of a person, fears, dreams and expectations it is important for me to carefully select words and mediums in order to be correctly understood.

EDUCATION

Moscow School of Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art).
British Higher School of Art & Design (illustration)
Interschool (Screenwriting)
Post-graduate student in the specialty "Linguistics and Literary Studies", master's degree
in the specialties "Russian Literature", "Television journalism”.

СV

SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 21-23

2024 – Open vol.4., a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
2024 – "After New Year", 11.12 Gallery, Artplay, Moscow
2024 – II Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Petrozavodsk
2023 – "The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere”, Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 – "Tupik 2023", АRT4, Moscow
2023 – blazar young art fair, Moscow
2023 – Art Moscow, Moscow
2023 – Krasnenkaya Biennale of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
2023 – "And you're not", Flacon design factory, The Cube, Moscow
2023 – "Who is Ophelia", Eulengasse, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany
2023 – "Hung the earth on nothing", Bis Art Gallery, Moscow
2023 – "This is a sign", gallery "On Peschanaya", Moscow
2023 – "Find Inner Mongolia" (two parts), Arbuzz gallery, Moscow 2023 – "Loss of balance", U contemporary, Center for contemporary art Winzavod, Moscow
2022 – "Ok, i'll think about it", START space, Center for contemporary art Winzavod, Moscow
2023 – "Forms of Memory", Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum, Moscow
2022 – "Between Sleep and reality", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 – "Issue-2022. Media Center", Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2022 – "While adults are talking" (two parts), Center for Contemporary Art Vinzavod, Moscow
2022 – "How to live together?", collective fem exhibition, "Rovesnik", Moscow
2022 – "The Refraction of Time", "All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art", Moscow
2022 – "Elimination of norms", pre-auction exhibition, auction. Garden of the Richter Hotel, Moscow.
2022 – "Refraction of Time", "All–Russian Museum of Decorative Art", Moscow
2022 – "Youth ", A3 gallery, Moscow
2022 – "Save as..", GULAG History Museum, Moscow
2022 – "Others", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 – "Borders of Freedom", pop-up exhibition, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2022 – "Mythologems", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
2022 – "Accumulated", U contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow.
2021 – I Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Petrozavodsk
2021 – U contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, "Liquidation.21", Moscow.
2021 – Red Shop, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, "Double Solid", performance, Moscow.
2021 – Gamma gallery, Moscow.
2021 – Room and Wall in the Palace of Culture GAZA, "Hidden Figures", St. Petersburg
2021 – U contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, "In Search of Light", Moscow.

PERSONAL EXHIBITION

2024 – ”1\10", "On Peschanaya Gallery", Moscow (opening July 2024)
2024 – Maybe one more time, huh?, CСI "Fabrika", Moscow
2023 – "O-", Sol Gallery, Moscow
2023 – "Gray Wolf", Rostokino, Moscow
2023 – week of performances based on the results of Montemero Art Residency, Spain
2010 – Art Museum. Kuindzhi, Mariupol

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2024 – "What I found in the steppe", Rostokino, Moscow
2024 – "After New Year", 11.12 Gallery, Artplay , Moscow
2024 – "12 views". Twelve reasons , Moscow
2023 – "one-one", "On Peschanaya Gallery", Moscow
2022 – "While adults are talking", Center for Contemporary Art Vinzavod, Moscow

RESIDENCES

2023 – Pause/play: culture under pressure, Yerevan, Armenia
2023-24 – CСI "Fabrika" IX session of the contest of the program "Factory workshops", Moscow
2022-2023 – Montemero, Spain
2023 – Karelian network of art residences. Sortavala

AWARDS

2011 – Laureate of the Eastern Partnership Congress competition for the painting project "Fears of Countries". Exhibition-presentation of the winning works. Lublin, Poland.
2008 – Scholarship Victor Pinchuk Foundation

ANOTHER

2017 – Book "Stories and Play", Westfalen, Gesamtherstellung Edita Gelsen, Germany.
2009 – Collaboration with VIKTORANISIMOV

MEDIA

Painters work for BURO.: participate in «Ликвидация.21»

ARTIST STATEMENT

The main theme of my practice is the Space of Timelessness, which is the state before an emotion. Space of Timelessness is The ability to observe and reason oneself, people, events and things without haste and pain as if you see it from the outside. By distancing and slowing down, we seem to get a chance to examine the object in every second of its existence.

It is important for me to carefully select words and mediums in order to be correctly understood. It includes Personal and mental memory, folklore narrative, trauma, the fragility of the world and human, empathy, ascesis, fears, dreams, silence and expectation.

I am a multidisciplinary artist. I study and create hybrids of mediums to get the most comprehensive statement. When choosing an installation, painting, collage or video art, I look for a tool that will allow me to tell a true story. It is also important for me to use performative practice, my own physicality and to act as a kind of conductor between the viewer and what I want to tell them about today.