Olga Naletova

Welcome to the world of Olga Naletova's paintings

«Painting is like sailing a ship with no anchor: you never know what shores you will be washed up on and whether viewers over there are looking forward to your «masterpiece».

Welcome to the world of Olga Naletova's paintings

«I would like my paintings to be some sort of bridge connecting the land of paintings with the realm of feelings, thoughts, and imagination».

Welcome to the world of Olga Naletova's paintings

«I think the striving for stylistic delights in visual art has run out of steam. One can only seek to reflect on the essence of the soul».

BIOGRAPHY

My name is Olga Naletova, I am an oil painter. I was born in St.Petersburg in 1966. I finished Ioganson’s Art College at the USSR Academy of Arts. In 1990 I graduated from I.E.Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture at the USSR Academy of Arts, Faculty of Painting. I have been a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1992 and of Moscow Union of Artists since 1996. I currently live and work in Moscow.

Sometimes I wonder, what reasons made me devote my life to painting, why every day, seven days a week do I pick up brushes and squeeze multicolored volcanoes of paint onto my palette?

To paint a picture is always a bit of a gamble. You make up a story, decide who the main characters will be, what faces and postures they will have – and you just paint and add details and emotions along the way. This way a brand new world grows up on a canvas, which hardly belongs to you and lives its own life now…

That is exactly what makes up the main reward and motivitation – was that really me who made it, is this new living space actually my work? Every time it is a bit surprising and sometimes, in case the painting is successfully finished, very joyful. These are the exact feelings that drive me to take up brushes – what if this time everything goes well again and I pass this quest and a new story will be born a white canvas surface.

Solo exhibitions
2004 – Solo exhibition, gallery «Centaur», Moscow
2011 – Solo exhibition, CHA, Moscow
2013 – Solo exhibition «The game of imagination», Russian Center for Science&Culture, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013 – Solo exhibition «In search of illusions», CHA, Moscow
2013 – Solo exhibition, Russian Center for Science&Culture – «Melia», Hanoi, Vietnam
2015 – Solo exhibition «The space of illusions», Lobnya ART gallery, Lobnya

Group exhibitions
1990 – 91 – Autumn and spring exhibitions, Manezh, Leningrad
1990 – 91 – Autumn and spring exhibitions, exhibition halls of the Union of Artists of Leningrad, Leningrad
1992 – Exhibition «Russia-VIII», Manezh, Moscow
1995-2003 – Autumn and spring exhibitions, Central House of the Architect, Moscow
1998 – Christmas exhibition, Exhibition Hall at M.Gruzinskaya, Moscow
2008 – The First Moscow International Festival of Arts «Traditions and The Present», Manezh, Moscow
2009 – International Art Salon CHA – 2009, Moscow
2009 – Exhibition «Talent and destiny», CHA, Moscow. Laureate of the award of the International Alliance «Peacemaker» – «Talent and destiny»
2010 – International Art Salon CHA – 2010, Moscow
2010 – Christmas exhibition, Consulate of Russia, Munich, Germany
2011 – International Art Salon CHA – 2011, Moscow
2011 – Exhibition «Russian painting in Rome», gallery Teatro dei Dioscuri, Rome, Italy
2012 – Exhibition «Unreal reality», CHA, Moscow
2012 – International Art Salon CHA – 2012, Moscow
2012 – Exhibition «Dreimal Hallo jedes Mal anders!», Russian Center for Science&Culture, Berlin, Germany
2012 – Exhibition «Time for wandering. East-West», CHA, Moscow
2012 – Exhibition «Destination – Berlin», club «Dialog», Russian Center for Science&Culture, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Exhibition «Сonsonance», CHA, Moscow
2013 – Exhibition «Creativity without borders», State Exhibition Hall «Creativity», Moscow
2013 – International Exhibition of Contemporary Art «Russian ArtWeek», Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center, Moscow
2013 – Exhibition «Graphic experiments», CHA, Moscow
2014 – Exhibition of Painting and Graphics «ART Kaleidoscope – winter 2014» , gallery «ART Boulevard», Moscow
2014 – International Art Salon CHA – 2014, Moscow
2015 – Exhibition «ARTNOW», CHA, Moscow
2016 – The Beverly Hills artSHOW October 2016, Los Angeles, USA
2016-17 – International project «The worlds of Parajanov through the eyes of contemporaries», The Armenian Museum «Topan», «Cinema House», Riviera mall, Moscow
2017 – Laureate of Internashional competition «Large Format Painting En Plein Air», Normandy, France

Publications
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 – Catalogues of exhibitions of the «Russia – Concert» Concert Fund
1996 г. – «Searches on a canvas», Georgy Alexandrov, RIA «News», «Satellite» №11/96
1997 г. – «Olga Naletova», Georgy Alexandrov, AUTOBANK – Chronicle №1(16)
2009 г. – Exhibition Catalogue «International Art Salon CHA – 2009»
2009 г. – Exhibition Catalogue «Isograph»
2012 г. – Exhibition Catalogue «Destination – Berlin»
2013 г. – Exhibition Catalogue «Creativity without borders»

Olga Naletova