Syntax Gallery
Syntax Gallery
| OLYA KROYTOR Olya Kroytor is an active participant of domestic and international projects, works in the field of easel art, video, photography and performance. Was born in 1986 in Moscow. Graduated from the Artistic Graphic Department of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art "Free Workshops" and the Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art. Member of The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM). |
WORKS
SITUATION 45
2023,
acrylic on canvas, mixed media
150x150 cm
acrylic on canvas, mixed media
150x150 cm
VENI, VIDI
2023,
wood, acrylic, mixed media
95x70 cm
wood, acrylic, mixed media
95x70 cm
SITUATION 41
2023,
acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media,
d – 100 cm
acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media,
d – 100 cm
ALL THIS DOESN'T CONCERN ME
2023,
wood, acrylic, mixed media,
104х60x16 cm
wood, acrylic, mixed media,
104х60x16 cm
FROM THE SERIES "EXTRAS"
2018,
digital print on dibond,
80х120 cm
digital print on dibond,
80х120 cm
FROM THE SERIES "EXTRAS"
2018,
digital print on dibond,
120x80 cm
digital print on dibond,
120x80 cm
FROM THE SERIES "EXTRAS"
2018,
digital print on dibond,
120x80 cm
digital print on dibond,
120x80 cm
SITUATION 28
2023,
acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media,
d – 100 cm
acrylic on canvas, collage, mixed media,
d – 100 cm
2023
Trial | Process. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022
Næsta Stopp Er. Ganginum Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021
Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
Excluding Equilibrium. A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazahstan
The Coordinates of Disappearance. Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
On the Other Side. Artwin Gallery, Kicik Qalart, Baku, Azerbajjan
Time That Exists. Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Eight Situations. Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014
Unnecessary. Komnata Gallery, Theater of the School of Modern Drama, Moscow, Russia
2011
Dissociative Identity Disorder. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Split Personality. Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Trial | Process. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022
Næsta Stopp Er. Ganginum Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021
Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
Excluding Equilibrium. A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazahstan
The Coordinates of Disappearance. Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
On the Other Side. Artwin Gallery, Kicik Qalart, Baku, Azerbajjan
Time That Exists. Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Eight Situations. Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014
Unnecessary. Komnata Gallery, Theater of the School of Modern Drama, Moscow, Russia
2011
Dissociative Identity Disorder. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Split Personality. Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2023
Forty Years of The Corridor, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2022
A! - Gjörningahátíð, Performance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig, Korpúlfsstaðir Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021
The Homecoming. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Named by Vasari. Gothic. Volgo-Vyatsky branch of the The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
A Time to Embrace and to Refrain From Embracing. 6th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg circus, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Zverev Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition. Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Festival of New Russian Videoart. GUM Cinema, Moscow, Russia
2020
The Session. The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Bon Voyage. Galerie Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
One Hundred Landscapes for One Person. State Tretyakov Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF), Moscow, Russia
GENERATION XXI. Donated by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020-2070. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2019
A-Real Film Festival #2. Studio 4413, St. Petersburg, Russia
Adaptation. K. A. Timiryazev's State Biological Museum, Moscow, Russia
A-Real Film Festival #1. Electro Museum, Moscow, Russia
Sky is Always Clear (reenactment of Yoko Ono's "Water Event"). Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Listen to me. New Archive of Limited Edition Art – 2019. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Public and Private. Cube Gallery, Moscow, Russia
XII International Art Symposium "Alanika". National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
Organs of Perception of Art. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
7th Festival of Contemporary Art "Tsiolkovskiy". Innovative cultural center, Kaluga, Russia
Solyanka Art Squat Forum. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Red Arrow. Moscow - Saint Petersburg, a look from the 1980s. Heritage House, Belgrade, Serbia
SOS. Russia. Embassy of Austria in Moscow, Moscow, Russia
In Residence: from the collection of Zarya Center for Contemporary Art. Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
Invited By. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
Co-autor. "Octave" Creative Industrial Cluster, Tula, Russia
The Marvelous Cacophony. Belgrade biennale of contemporary art, 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
2344. Penetration. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Anatomy of a Fairytale. Pörnbach Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Hair. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
CREATurE Live Art: International Performance Art Festival. Post Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
New Literacy. 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia Empatheia. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
Siberian Utopia. KANSK International Architectural Festival, Kansk, Russia
A quoi rêvent les forêts? Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Luther und die Avantgarde. Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany
Man as Bird. Images of Journeys. Special Project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for the 57th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice, Italy
Internal Manifesto. Ground Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Prokofiev's 3D Dimension. Sergei Prokofiev Museum, Moscow, Russia
Dream Movie Theater. Ground Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
DIALOGUE: Contemporary Art From Russia. KBS Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Transcendent Piano Festival. Muzeon Park of Arts, Moscow, Russia
After Glamor. Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
Shelter. Archstoyanie Festival, Moscow, Russia
DADA Festival. National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Co-Author. Center of City Culture, Perm, Russia
BALAGAN. Contemporary art from the former Soviet Union and other mythical places. Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany
Martyr. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
Practice Contact. 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Remember Tomorrow. Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russi
ARTBAT FEST 6. Almaty, Kazakhstan
Influence. ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia
The Fest. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
People in the City. National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Ceremonial Portrait. 50A Studio, Moscow, Russia
Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
What we hear, when we look? Manifesta 10, First cadet corps, St. Petersburg, Russia
Time for Dreams. 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Moscow. Barocco. Parallel program of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Don't Even Dream! Parallel program of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Do It. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
After the Comic. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
Stability. Ghosts. Random Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Always in the Vanguard. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, England
Part of the Whole. 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Expansion of the Subject. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Out of the Forest. Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Kaluga, Russia
2012
The Reset. Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
V_museum - Platform Moscow. Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
Between Heaven and Earth. Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art. Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Ekaterinburg, Russia
Price. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
RussenKo. Kremlin-Bicetre City Hall, Kremlin-Bicetre, France
Triple Reflection. Studio Kopecks, Moscow, Russia
Vglaz. Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011
Employment History. PRОЕКТ_FАBRIКА, Moscow, Russia
Run. ArtSquat Forum, Moscow, Russia
Nuts. Regina Gallery, London, England
9 Days. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Space Art. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
MODESTY. Flacon Factory, Moscow, Russia
Malevich Spiral. KOMNATA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Landscape. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010
A lot - A lot. Gallery on Vspolny, Moscow, Russia
Art Diploma 2010. Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
Independent project within Art Moscow 2010, Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
DO NOT DISTURB. Biennale of Young Art, Science 254, Moscow, Russia
No Translations. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Bozar. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Fresco Part I: Shadow's Thirty Six Friends. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
Can't Take It Anymore. VCSI, Voronezh, Russia
Sputnik Art. TSUM, Moscow, Russia
Art After the End of History. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Graphics. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Second Square. Open Scene Space, Moscow, Russia
Let Me Think. 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow, Russia
Forty Years of The Corridor, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2022
A! - Gjörningahátíð, Performance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig, Korpúlfsstaðir Exhibition Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021
The Homecoming. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Named by Vasari. Gothic. Volgo-Vyatsky branch of the The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
A Time to Embrace and to Refrain From Embracing. 6th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg circus, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Zverev Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition. Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Festival of New Russian Videoart. GUM Cinema, Moscow, Russia
2020
The Session. The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Bon Voyage. Galerie Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
One Hundred Landscapes for One Person. State Tretyakov Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF), Moscow, Russia
GENERATION XXI. Donated by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020-2070. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2019
A-Real Film Festival #2. Studio 4413, St. Petersburg, Russia
Adaptation. K. A. Timiryazev's State Biological Museum, Moscow, Russia
A-Real Film Festival #1. Electro Museum, Moscow, Russia
Sky is Always Clear (reenactment of Yoko Ono's "Water Event"). Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Listen to me. New Archive of Limited Edition Art – 2019. New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Public and Private. Cube Gallery, Moscow, Russia
XII International Art Symposium "Alanika". National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
Organs of Perception of Art. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
7th Festival of Contemporary Art "Tsiolkovskiy". Innovative cultural center, Kaluga, Russia
Solyanka Art Squat Forum. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Red Arrow. Moscow - Saint Petersburg, a look from the 1980s. Heritage House, Belgrade, Serbia
SOS. Russia. Embassy of Austria in Moscow, Moscow, Russia
In Residence: from the collection of Zarya Center for Contemporary Art. Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
Invited By. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
Co-autor. "Octave" Creative Industrial Cluster, Tula, Russia
The Marvelous Cacophony. Belgrade biennale of contemporary art, 57th October Salon, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
2344. Penetration. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Anatomy of a Fairytale. Pörnbach Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Hair. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
CREATurE Live Art: International Performance Art Festival. Post Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
New Literacy. 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia Empatheia. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
Siberian Utopia. KANSK International Architectural Festival, Kansk, Russia
A quoi rêvent les forêts? Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Luther und die Avantgarde. Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany
Man as Bird. Images of Journeys. Special Project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for the 57th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice, Italy
Internal Manifesto. Ground Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Prokofiev's 3D Dimension. Sergei Prokofiev Museum, Moscow, Russia
Dream Movie Theater. Ground Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
DIALOGUE: Contemporary Art From Russia. KBS Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Transcendent Piano Festival. Muzeon Park of Arts, Moscow, Russia
After Glamor. Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
Shelter. Archstoyanie Festival, Moscow, Russia
DADA Festival. National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Co-Author. Center of City Culture, Perm, Russia
BALAGAN. Contemporary art from the former Soviet Union and other mythical places. Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany
Martyr. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
Practice Contact. 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Remember Tomorrow. Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russi
ARTBAT FEST 6. Almaty, Kazakhstan
Influence. ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia
The Fest. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
People in the City. National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Ceremonial Portrait. 50A Studio, Moscow, Russia
Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
What we hear, when we look? Manifesta 10, First cadet corps, St. Petersburg, Russia
Time for Dreams. 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Moscow. Barocco. Parallel program of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Don't Even Dream! Parallel program of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Young Art, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Do It. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
After the Comic. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
Stability. Ghosts. Random Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Always in the Vanguard. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, England
Part of the Whole. 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Expansion of the Subject. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Out of the Forest. Archstoyanie Festival of Landscape Objects, Kaluga, Russia
2012
The Reset. Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
V_museum - Platform Moscow. Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
Between Heaven and Earth. Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art. Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Ekaterinburg, Russia
Price. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
RussenKo. Kremlin-Bicetre City Hall, Kremlin-Bicetre, France
Triple Reflection. Studio Kopecks, Moscow, Russia
Vglaz. Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011
Employment History. PRОЕКТ_FАBRIКА, Moscow, Russia
Run. ArtSquat Forum, Moscow, Russia
Nuts. Regina Gallery, London, England
9 Days. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Space Art. ArtRu Gallery, Moscow, Russia
MODESTY. Flacon Factory, Moscow, Russia
Malevich Spiral. KOMNATA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Landscape. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010
A lot - A lot. Gallery on Vspolny, Moscow, Russia
Art Diploma 2010. Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
Independent project within Art Moscow 2010, Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
DO NOT DISTURB. Biennale of Young Art, Science 254, Moscow, Russia
No Translations. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Bozar. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Fresco Part I: Shadow's Thirty Six Friends. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
Can't Take It Anymore. VCSI, Voronezh, Russia
Sputnik Art. TSUM, Moscow, Russia
Art After the End of History. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Graphics. ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Second Square. Open Scene Space, Moscow, Russia
Let Me Think. 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow, Russia
2020
BOE Art Prize, finalist, Berlin, Germany
2017
Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: "Project of the Year"
"Grant Program for Emerging Artists", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016
"Grant Program for Emerging Artists", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015
Kandinsky Prize "Emerging Artist: "Project of the Year" /winner/, Moscow, Russia
2014
Shortlisted for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize: "Best Public Art", St. Petersburg, Russia
2012
Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: "Emerging Artist", Moscow, Russia
Nominated for the Strabag Art Award, Vienna, Austria
BOE Art Prize, finalist, Berlin, Germany
2017
Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: "Project of the Year"
"Grant Program for Emerging Artists", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016
"Grant Program for Emerging Artists", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015
Kandinsky Prize "Emerging Artist: "Project of the Year" /winner/, Moscow, Russia
2014
Shortlisted for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize: "Best Public Art", St. Petersburg, Russia
2012
Nominated for the Kandinsky Prize: "Emerging Artist", Moscow, Russia
Nominated for the Strabag Art Award, Vienna, Austria
2024
Scholarship Styria Artist in Residence, Graz, Austria
2023-2024
Artist Residency Skagafjordur, Iceland
2022
SÍM Residency (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) Reykjavik, Iceland
2016
Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund Award: "Visual Art", American Academy in Rome, Italy
2015
Center for Contemporary Art Zarya Residency, Vladivostok, Russia
Scholarship Styria Artist in Residence, Graz, Austria
2023-2024
Artist Residency Skagafjordur, Iceland
2022
SÍM Residency (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) Reykjavik, Iceland
2016
Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund Award: "Visual Art", American Academy in Rome, Italy
2015
Center for Contemporary Art Zarya Residency, Vladivostok, Russia
MRAC | Musée Régional D'art Contemporain | Sérignan, France
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Dungal Art Foundation, Iceland
The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
AZ Museum, Moscow, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Gogova Art Foundation, Russia
Fundación Magnolia, Mexico
Galeria Piotra Nowickiego, Warsaw, Poland
ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Private collections in Austria, England, Germany, Iceland, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia, USA
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Dungal Art Foundation, Iceland
The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
AZ Museum, Moscow, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Gogova Art Foundation, Russia
Fundación Magnolia, Mexico
Galeria Piotra Nowickiego, Warsaw, Poland
ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Private collections in Austria, England, Germany, Iceland, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia, USA
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