Olga Chernysheva. Dream Street

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An exhibition catalogue that invites readers on a journey through a land of dreams, symbols, and chance encounters.

Olga Chernysheva. Dream Street was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at GES-2 from April 24 to November 16, 2025. The catalogue gathers the constitutive elements of Chernysheva’s symbolic world in a single space, in which video, photography, painting, and installation flow from one thematic constellation into another. Ten trajectories—“Dream,” “Animism,” “Metamorphoses,” “Ghosts,” “Spheres,” “Background and Figure,” “Textures/Surfaces/Signs,” “Primordial Elements,” “Eternal Return,” and "Becoming"—guide the reader’s path and allow associative connections to be made between Chernysheva’s works.

All photos: Ruslan Shavaleev

Olga Chernysheva (b. 1962) is an artist living and working in Moscow. She studied Film and Animation at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and Fine Art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Her works are held in the collections of museums throughout the world, including MoMA (New York), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham), Tate Modern (London), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Hoffmann Collection (Berlin). In 2022, Chernysheva was the 15th recipient of the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize. In 2023, she illustrated Viktor Dragunsky’s The Adventures of Dennis for V–A–C Press’s children’s publishing programme.

Chernysheva’s aesthetic style, reduced to ornamental textures, begins to be perceived as an enigmatic system of signs requiring decoding. Not lending themselves to solution, her works refer to an original, otherworldly realm of meanings with which we have no direct contact, but of which we can judge the existence by the traces it has left behind. To use Andrei Tarkovsky’s terms, one could say that what the viewer encounters in Chernysheva’s video works is “imprinted time,” while the method of these works is “sculpting in time.”

— Viktor Misiano, “Olga Chernysheva and Her ‘Seven Exercises’”

The catalogue includes the pieces presented in the exhibition, commentaries on each section, an afterword by guest curator Viktor Misiano describing Olga Chernysheva’s artistic path and figurative poetics, and an interview of the artist by Elena Yaichnikova, a curator at GES-2 House of Culture.

Publication Concept
Viktor Misiano
Olga Chernysheva

Managing Editors
Olga Stebleva
Grigory Cheredov

Design and Layout
Stepan Lipatov

Literary Editor
Olga Stebleva