Oleg Elagin
Media artist, musician. born in Samara in 1982. location: Samara
Graduated from the Samara State Communication Academy (2004), Independent School of Contemporary Art (2006), The art grant on training in Germany (Stuttgarter kunstverein e.v., Stuttgart. Germany) (2014), the art grant of European Cultural Foundation (2018), the grant of Vyksa Air artresidence, member of the Creative Union of Artists “Solaris».
Selected projects
2018 – FILE, FILE Hypersonica. Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 – “Electric Russia”, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2018 – «Portal – A Visual Research», Lothringer13_FLORIDA artist-run project space and residency, Munchen, Germany
2018 – “Madness Of The Volga”, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russiа
2018 – Solo exhibition «Deep digital dream», art residence Vyksa Air, Vyksa, Russia
2017 – Laureate «MATA» festival, The Kitchen multi-disciplinary art and performance space, New York, USA
2017 – «Volga.Zero», the Central Volga branch of the State Center for Contemporary Arts, Samara, Russia
2017 – Cyberfest 2017. Retrospective of the video programs shown at ” Cyberfest» festival. The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 – «Antimuseum. Part 2», Electromuseum Museum, Moscow
2016 – The Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016 – Solo exhibition “Supplementarite”, Samara literary Museum, Samara, Russia
2016 – «Nonsense», Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
2016 – UNTITLEology, October Film centre, Moscow
2016 – «Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2016», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2015 – Solo exhibition «Refining», National Center for Contemporary Art, Samara, Russia
2015 – 61. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2015 – FILE: Electronic Language International Festival 2015, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 – The 9th Annual CYBERFEST Video Program 2015-2016 (SOFA (Bogota,Columbia), The Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2014 – The first ice Biennale «Ice”, Samara
2014 – «Not a museum. «Laboratory of aesthetical suspicion», “New industry” Art space, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014 – Solo exhibition «Pan/Crop STD», Stuttgarter kunstverein e.v., Stuttgart, Germany
2014 – “Night of arts”, Samara literary Museum, Samara, Russia
2013 – On Moscow time, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2013 – Art against geography, Perm Museum of Modern Art (PERMM), Perm, Russia
2013 – Found, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2013 – Solo exhibition «The presence of absence», Svetlana Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013 – Have the Wanderers of Yesterday Become Today`s Backspacers?, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2013 – Nothing of the kind, Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 – Solo exhibition «Paintless. Digital Art», Art-Center Gallery, Samara, Russia
2012 – The current. Samara Avangard 1960-2012, Alabin museum, Samara, Russia
2012 – V International Festival of videoart in public spaces OUTVIDEO 2012. Ekaterinburg, Russia
2012 – 13 EXTRA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ESF, Moscow
2012 – LIQUIDITY Film Festival, Image, Migration & Bodies, Barcelona
2012 –Electronic language International festival “File”, São Paulo
2012 – 10th International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok, Russia
2012 – Cinema: New Device, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2012 – 2012. New conditions, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2011 – Extraterrestrial , New Space Gallery, Samara, Russia
2011 – Contact with Outer Space, New Space Gallery, Samara, Russia
2011 – Modern Abstraction: a Destroyed Gestalt, New Space Gallery, Samara, Russia
2011 – Fog, XI Rooms Gallery, Samara, Russia
2011 – The Dark Forest, XI Rooms Gallery, Samara, Russia
2011 – In Too Deep. 9th Krasnoyarsk International Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 – Strangers: Between Europe and Asia. 7th International Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Samara, Russia
2011 – Variations on a Theme, Kinotavr Film Festival, Sochi, Russia
2010 – Utterly / Totally (New Canon), Perm Museum of Modern Art (PERMM), Perm, Russia
2010 – The Cité Internationale des Arts, Париж / «Action Plan» , Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art,Moscow,Russia , The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2010 – Cyberfest. 4th Festival of Cybernetic Art, Polygraph Art Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 – History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3 , Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
2010 – Gold for the folks, Art-Center Gallery, Samara, Russia
2010 – Desorintation, Art-Center Gallery, Samara, Russia
2009 – “Videoformat” [Linearity]. National Centre for Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
2009 – Capture, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2009 – Defective, M`Ars Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 – Video Art festival “Art Province “, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 – Video poetry festival “In Vain!”, Central house of artist, Moscow, Russia
2008 – Festival of contemporary cinema “White square”, Samara, Russia
2008-2010 – Compulsion to the interpretation 1, 2, 3 , Samara, Russia
2006 – The festival of real cinema “KINOTEATR.DOC”. Moscow, Russia