Nikolay Oleynikov, Architechtural
Fantasy, mixed media, varialble dimensions, 2008
Architectural Fantasy
is inspired by the work of utopian architects, including the Russian
constructivists, who built communes for the new Soviet working class, and the
situationist architects of the 1960s France, the artist creates an image of an
impossible city, at the center of which situated a new museum and artists’
studios. This is a city, where all social life is built
around the creation and socialization of a new type of knowledge in new
and non-hierarchical forms.
Nikolai Oleynikov was born in the city of Gorky, in U.S.S.R. in 1976. He graduated from Nizhegorodskoe Theater College with a degree in set designer. Member of the groups “What is to be done?” and “Fiks, Riff, Budraitskis, Oleynikov”. Frequent contributor to the Moscow Art Magazine. Recent solo exhibition include: ACTIVIST CLUB (w “Chto Delat’?”), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; NOFUCKINFUNNY. Paperworks Gallery, Moscow; and Dialogues in the club. "Original" aka "Tipografia" artists space, Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow.
