She is born in Russia in 1965.
She lives in Paris and San Petersburgo.
Olga
Kisseleva is one of the most accomplished Russian artists of her
generation. Graduated from St. Petersburg University, she belongs to
the first generation after Perestroika, which helped to bring down the
Berlin Wall and cast aside the iron curtain.
From
the beginning of the 90s Olga Kisseleva on the invitation of the
Fulbright Foundation found a roof for her work in the research group in
the United States which dealt with the development of digital
technologies. She mainly stayed on the research laboratories in New
York and in California, where she participated in the first adventurous
beginnings of Silicon Valley.
In
1996 she is getting her PhD for her theoretical work on the theme of
new forms of hybridization and she is invited to the Fine Art Institut
of “Hautes Etudes” in Paris. Since then she has been
developing original work in which is oscillates between truth and
untruth and she is searching for improbable boundaries that separate
both. In all of her projects the viewers very much take part, thereby
the artists challenges the ability of new media to create a true
picture of reality.
The
artist’s main exhibitions include: National Center for
Contemporary Art, Moscow, Modern Art Museum, Paris, Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg, KIASMA, Helsinki, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid, Venice Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003), Istanbul Biennial
(2001), Dakar Biennial (2002), La Fondation Cartier for contemporary
art, Paris, Center Georges Pompidou Contemporary Art Museum, Paris,
CAPC Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, Machida Museum of Graphic Arts,
Tokyo, Art Institute, Chicago…