Olga Hirsch Art
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  • Who Am I?
  • My Anti-World
  • Pilgrims
  • The White Room
  • Mnemosyne, 2019
  • One Picture Only, March 2022
  • Child Again, 2022-2023
  • All About My Mother, 2019-2022
  • The Winter Of Our Discontent 2021-22
  • Quarantine Obsession 20
  • Sculpture
  • Nostalgia, 2014 - 2021
  • The Family Album
  • The Window
  • Beyond Time and Space
  • Fights Of Fancy
  • All In White
  • After Japan, 2018
  • Recent Illustrations
  • Time To Create Christmas
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"Dear Olga,
​What you do with spaces (open, of course), forms, light, color, line, shape, and texture is astonishing to me--telling stories, recalling images and events, forcing the eye into new places and geographies, and at the same time disconcerting the casual viewer.  Your art needs to be felt as well as seen, not because it simply evokes emotion but because it stirs sense.  I can't imagine how you make so many of the figures that sometimes haunt, sometimes humanize, sometimes in a spiritual way almost transfigure your canvases, but the effect is very powerful and I congratulate you on what you have accomplished.
03 March 2021
Giles Gunn

​www.meer.com/en/81545-interview-with-olga-goldina-hirsch

www.artisttalkmagazine.com/the-solstice-begins​
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Runner up TEBBS International Award 2022, TEBBS Gallery, London
​Foundation Taylor Member, Paris

Olga Goldina Hirsch, MA FA, is a London-based British artist who
specialises in abstract conceptual painting and masterfully combines abstraction
and figuration in her work. Her art is widely exhibited nationally and
internationally.

Olga received her MA in Fine Art from the City and Guilds of London Art School
(Birmingham University) in 2018. Prior to that, she had completed her studies at
the Putney School of Art and Design. She also took various short art courses at
SLADE, Chelsea School of Art, and City Lit.

In 2024, she had her solo exhibition The Solstice Begins! at the Coningsby
Gallery, London. In 2022, she was the runner-up of the TEBBS International Art
Award. She is also the recipient of the Cazenove Capital Prize and member of
the Taylor Foundation, Paris. In November 2023, she became a recipient of the
Creative Excellence Award by Circle Foundation for the Arts. Olga’s work was also shortlisted for the Hastings Open 2022 Prize.

In 2021, a work from Olga’s series Who Am I? was featured in the acclaimed
catalogue of Le Salon des Artistes Françaises. In June and December 2023 and
June 2024, her paintings were displayed on the iconic Times Square screens in
Broadway Plaza, New York.

​Olga’s works can be found in USA including Brooklyn Art Library, in the
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens; in the Artetage Centre of
Contemporary Art in Vladivostok and in private collections across the UK,
Bulgaria, France, Italy, Canada, and the USA.

​Olga’s art harks back to the traditions of the early Russian avant-garde, with its primary formal concerns for colour, line, plane, depth, and texture. At that, Olga relies on the text as much as on the image, which is also consistent with early avant-gardist practices. Her artistic perception also resonates with Moscow conceptualism (aka the second Russian
avant-garde) and its representatives, such as Ilya Kabakov.

Relying on the avant-garde heritage and traditions of her family, Olga explores the transgenerational impact of tumultuous historical events throughout the 20th century on the example of her family ( grandparents and parents). Her works are original philosophical commentaries on the loss and recovery of historical memories and the possibility of healing through filling in the historical gaps in the collective and family past.
 

                 "WHAT IS ERASED IS NEVER TRULY GONE.
                                                               IT LINGERS, LIKE BREATH ON GLASS, A TRACE WAITING TO BE SEEN"

My works visually explore the tension between presence and absence, memory and forgetting, wholeness and dissolution. They overlay past and present, real and unreal, in order to interrogate loss. My approach is deeply rooted in abstraction, layering, and the manipulation of form to evoke a sense of bodies that exist in traces, rather than in full form. My layering technique consisting of such elements as stencilled figures, hazy textures, and scattered textual fragments, directly corresponds to fractured memories that I attempt to convey. My interests align with the themes found in Conceptual and Memory Art. I feel inspired by select works by Christian Boltanski, Shimon Attie, William Kentridge and Anselm Kiefer. Overall, I prefer to engage with the politics of forgetting and remembering, using material absence to evoke deep historical presence. In other words, I like to explore what is referred to as “post-memory” in Marianne Hirsch’s writings. My art essentially explores "remembering" the past through the lens of those who lived in it. I also find inspiration in Jacques Derrida’s “hauntology, ” a concept that suggests that the past continues to haunt the present, refusing to be fully buried or forgotten. Unlike traditional history, which assumes a clear break between past and present, hauntology suggests that unresolved histories remain as ghostly presences, shaping contemporary reality. And I do believe that the present contains multiple traces of the past. As the shapes in my artworks are so unstable, elusive and fluid, I believe that poetry is the best form to describe my art. Therefore, some of my works have companion poems written by myself.




CV
OLGA GOLDINA HIRSCH / Olga Hirsch Art 
 London, UK
 www.olgahirschart.com
 https://www.instagram.com/olgahirschart/
 https://www.facebook.com/olgahirschart

 
 Previous Academic Qualifications in Science:
 1994 – 2012: Marketing of the hospital medicines in collaboration with Fresenius AG and  Serumwerk Bernburg AG, Germany, in Moscow, Russia  (Medical Director)
1976 – 1991: PhD in Biology (Pharmacology); Diploma in Biochemistry; Master Degree in Pharmacy, Moscow, USSR
List of publications: more than 150 scientific publications (author and co-author), including a monographic review (available on request)
Qualifications in Art:
1967 – 1975:  The State Music School No 15 (Piano Class) Moscow, USSR 
2012 – 2014: Diploma in Art and Design, Putney School of Art and Design, London
2015 (November): MA Portfolio Course, Chelsea School of Art, London
2016 (4-8 April):  Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade Short Courses, Certificate of Attendance, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2016 – 2018: MA in Fine Arts, City & Guilds of London Art School, London

Participation at the Art Exhibitions and curated projects:
2025
EIDOS: The Shape of Those With No Shape, SPIRA9 ART, the group exhibition, Indra Gallery, London, 11 - 14 March 2025
2024
​Artist Talk Magazine Digital Exhibition, 20 and 22 June, Times Square, NYC, USA
ART BELOW Hyde Park Corner, group exhibition, Ad lib Gallery, 14 July -  1 August, London
The Solstice Begins! Solo exhibition, The Coningsby Gallery & Katrine Levin Galleries, Fitzrovia, London, 16 - 22 September 2024
2023
Contemporary Paintings, group exhibition, The Brick Lane Gallery, 18th - 29th January, London
POSTCARDS ANON, group show, 21st - 24th March, London
ART BELOW Pimlico, group exhibition, Ad lib Gallery, 27th March - 16h April, London
Group exhibition, 28th April - 4th May, Art Number 23 Gallery, Rome, Italy
​Artist Talk Magazine Digital Exhibition, 22 June, Times Square, NYC, USA
Group exhibition, 27th October - 6th November, Art Number 23 Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
ART BELOW Pimlico, group exhibition, Ad lib Gallery, 4 - 19 December, London
​Artist Talk Magazine Digital Exhibition, 31 December, Times Square, NYC, USA
Global Horizons X, Artio Gallery, digital group exhibition, 22 - 29 December
2022
TEBBS International Art Prize AWAD 2022, Shortlist Artist Exhibition, 16th - 27th February, London
SPIRITUALITY, virtual  group exhibition, 15th Feb - 14th March, TEBBS, London
"Vucherknutue iz zhisni", two artists exhibition, Museum of Modern Art "Art Etage", 25 March - 24 April, Vladivostok, Russia
HUMAN, virtual group exhibition, 15th April - 14 May, TEBBS, London
MOTHER, virtual group exhibition, 15th July - 14 August, TEBBS, London
BOOK PROJECT, virtual group exhibition, 30th July - 31 Dec, TEBBS, London
ART BELOW RIGENT'S PARK, group exhibition, Ad lib Gallery, September, London
2021
DREAM, Virtual Exhibition, Kunsthaus RoZig, LA, CA, 10 - 30 January 2021
artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/4080653/dream
Le Salon des Artistes Francais 231st edition, Paris, 10 - 14 February 2021/ Catalogue 
​My Palimpsest. Solo Virtual Exhibition, Art Number 23 Gallery, London, UK
ARTBOX.PROJECT WORLD 1.0. Digital Group Exhibition, 4th Jan - 31st March 2021, ARTBOX Gallery, Switzerland 
issuu.com/artnumber23/docs/new_era_1_jan
Group Virtual Show, W Art Gallery, September 2021
Sculpture Trial in Cannizaro Park group exhibition, September 2021, Wimbledon, London, UK
2020
FORCES, Art Number 23, Biscuit Factory, London, group show, March 2020
https://issuu.com/artnumber23/docs/forces__3_
Covid Creation Capsule Charity Auction, London, UK, 2020
Platform For Emerging Arts #24, Group Exhibition, Leyden Gallery, 28th Oct – 7th Nov 2020, London, UK
Figuratively Speaking, Virtual Group Exhibition, 30th Oct – 30th Nov 2020
https://www.clairekiddart.co.uk/catalogue
Merton Virtual Art Festival 2020, Virtual Exhibition, 9 – 18 November 2020, London
New Era / Art Number 23, International virtual exhibition 15 Dec 2020 - 05 Jan 
1900s - 2019
Exhibitions of Folk Art, Moscow, Russia – 1988, 1989, 1990
Art Exhibition - September 2011, Wimbledon, London
Merton Art Trails2012 (solo) - September 2012, Wimbledon, London
Merton Art Trails2013 (solo) - September 2013, Wimbledon, London
International Mail Art Exhibition "I dream of ...", Cultivative, San Francisco, USA, 5th December 2014
Merton Art Trails2015- September 2015, Wimbledon, London
Postcards Anon Annual Exhibition, West London Action for Children: 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, London
Diploma Graduation Show,  Putney School of Art and Design, 30 June – 12 July 2014, Maestro Arts Gallery, Putney, London
The Art Exhibition II, the Village Trust Gallery, 5 – 9 November 2014, Wimbledon, London
Stories from the Young Art Exhibition, 21st September – 11th October, 2015, 2016, 2017, OSO Art Centre, Barns, London
Interim Snow, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, April 2017
Annual Exhibition, City & Guilds of London Art School (Interim Show), London, September 2017 
Meet your friends Exhibition, 14 – 16 Dec 2017, OSO Art Centre, Barns, London
Interim Snow, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, March 2018
Graduation Show MA in Fine Art, City& Guilds of London Art School, London, September 2018
ART PARMA FAIR, Italy, October 2019

Residency:
Oped Space Art Residency, Tokyo, Japan, September 2020 (post noted) 
Collections:
Official Artist of The Sketchbook Project Brooklyn Library 2018, NY, USA
https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/S175261?fbclid=IwAR34KOemj-EOb_yt1Kre9GXmV_PzUTcvHM6wL4-XLPrPxF4nCcC558aIIKs
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, 2019, 2021
Museum of Modern Art, Vladivostok, Russia, 2022
On display at Virtual Museum of Art, Germany: https://www.museum-of-art.net/Rooms/halle/logout:1

Representation:
Ad Lib Gallery, Wimbledon Village, London, UK
​Art Number 23 Gallery, London, UK
TEBBS Art Gallery, London, UK
​I-Gallery. Intelligence, Paris, France

Art Etage, Vladivostok, Russia
Featured artist at @circle.foundation

Participation at the competitions:
Runner up TEBBS International Award 2022, TEBBS Gallery, London
Art Battle London, 4th of March 2022, London
Luxembourg Art Prize 2020 Certificate
​Hastings Open 2022, shortlisted artist, UK

Theoretical experience in Art:
Essay:  Religion and Art. The spatial construction in the Old Russian Art, 1989, Moscow (in Russian)
Illustration Essay:  Red and Art, PSAD, 2013, London
Critical Model Dissertation: By the Window: Beyond Time and Space,City & Guilds of London Art School, 2018, London
Memberships:
International Association of Visual Arts (IAVA - 3 - 100), Florence, Italy, October 2020
Taylor Foundation, Paris, 2021
Publications:
Stories from the Young, 2015. London: Unicorn Press Ltd 
[illustrations: pp. 12,36,46,60,74] ISBN: 9781910065945
 
Stories from the Young,2016. London: Unicorn Press Ltd 
[illustrations: pp. 8, 50-56, 60-66, 76,88,116] ISBN: 2370000337023
 
Stories from the Young,2017. London: Unicorn Press Ltd 
[illustrations: pp.6476,86,118,134] ISBN: 2370000548078
 
Copelouzos Family Art Museum Catalogue, 35x35, Athens, 2020

14-Day Portrait Book, Brooklyn Art Library, 2020

Fragmented Magazine. Issue 01 – Location, December 2020, page 54
​Wimbledon Guardian/WT, November 2020:
www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/18858238.discover-art-merton-week-long-festival/?fbclid=IwAR0Qt-OI-CmsTAaNM94wpsb-wubTsd-NXj2T1d91hhTPriJded0QdcevYbU

Le Salon des Artistes Francais 231st edtition, Paris, February 2021/ Catalogue, p.123
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​Artist Talk Magazine. Art In Isolation, Issue 14 - January 2021

www.artisttalkmagazine.com/magazine.html
Canvas Project. Curated by Kristie Tebbs. Tebbs Gallery, 2021. ISBN 978-1-39990111202
Artist Talk Magazine. Art In Isolation, Issue 15 - Aprill 2021
Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 17, October 2021, p.73. ISBN 9 772515 658007
Boomer Magazine, First Edition, 2021, Boomer Gallery, London, p.96
issuu.com/boomermagazine/docs/1._magazine_digital_
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Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 18, January 2022, pp. 60-61. ISBN 9 772515 658007
Artist Talk Magazine. Art In Isolation, Issue 19 - April 2022
Copelouzos Family Art Museum Catalogue, COVART, Athens, 2023
Artist Talk Magazine, Issue ____, April 2023
Art For Peace catalogue, ______
Lectures: 
We are in London: Mind The Art for students of Moscow Design School / The High School of Economics, 17 January 2020, Moscow, Russia
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  • About
  • Who Am I?
  • My Anti-World
  • Pilgrims
  • The White Room
  • Mnemosyne, 2019
  • One Picture Only, March 2022
  • Child Again, 2022-2023
  • All About My Mother, 2019-2022
  • The Winter Of Our Discontent 2021-22
  • Quarantine Obsession 20
  • Sculpture
  • Nostalgia, 2014 - 2021
  • The Family Album
  • The Window
  • Beyond Time and Space
  • Fights Of Fancy
  • All In White
  • After Japan, 2018
  • Recent Illustrations
  • Time To Create Christmas
  • Contact
  • Blog