Olga Kisseleva

The artist is one of the key figures within scienceart and in the top ten of contemporary Russian artists.
Kisseleva's practice draws from exact sciences, biogenetics, and geophysics, as well as from political and social sciences. The artist conducts scientific experiments, producing calculations and analyses of her findings, all in strict observance of the methods and protocols adopted in the respective scientific fields. In other words, she applies a purely scientific method to test and confirm her artistic hypotheses.
Olga Kisseleva was born 1965 in Saint-Petersburg. Having graduated from the the Vera Mukhina institute of industrial art in 1988, she continued her Ph.D studies at the Hermitage museum and also studied physics at the Leningrad state university. In the early 1990s she studied at the university of California and Columbia university in New York, focusing on video art and multi-media, defending her Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of video and computer art. After receiving a Fulbright grant in 2000, she became a part of a team of creators working on the development of numerical
technologies in the United States. In 1998, Kisseleva’s book on video and computer art was published in France and other countries and she was invited to teach at the Sorbonne.
Since 2007 Kisseleva is head of the art and science department and a member of the high scientific committee of the Sorbonne. She is also an editor of Plastik Art&Science Magazine at Publications de la Sorbonne.
Olga Kisseleva has realised numerous art projects in the Modern Art Museum (Paris, France), the State Russian Museum, (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), KIASMA (Helsinki, Finland), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), Fondation Cartier forсcontemporary art (Paris, France), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain), MOMA (New York, USA), the National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia).

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