Watch things my way.
Every life is unique no matter whether it is human, animal, city, or buildings. Their life stories are created by numerous moments: interesting, bright, boring, monotonous … different.
I’ve been working with objects for a long time. I inspired myself to study the details of their life history. Those were ordinary things such as bicycles, clothes, shoes, utensils. I was focused on investigating dishes and cups for a long time – I have no clear explanation of why, but perhaps because of the possibility to read them more clearly. Coffee, morning, alone, together … evening, tea, alone, together …
Long-standing still life has taught me to watch and see, read, and listen. I learned how to feel life.
One day it became clear that the most interesting thing for me to watch is the city in which I live. For several years, I went to the studio the same way almost every day – in summer, winter, autumn, spring. The weather, seasons, people’s clothes, car designs, advertising boards were changing, and the city was rushing or going down to whisper, but it was never silent. You just need to stop and listen to its exciting sounds. So I began to read the architecture, which for me was a monumental chronicle of life.
I work with the linocut technique, which is staying almost ten years my main and favorite. And after these years I still find new technical possibilities of this media which help me to show my ideas and to better communicate with my viewer.
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Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist
Born in 1982 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. In 1989 moved to Ukraine.
2006 – Graduated from Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named after Mykhailo Boychuk, Faculty of Graphic Design.
2008 – Member of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine.
2023 – Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, United Kingdom.
Works as a professional graphic artist since 2002. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Ukraine and all around the world. She is an active member of the international printmaking community, participant and laureate of many printmaking competitions. Since 2018 she works as a book illustrator. Her printmaking work uses mainly techniques of relief printing.
Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Major shows:
2012 – Solo exhibition “Romantics of the daily routine”, Fine Art Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
2014 – 17th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany.
2014 – The International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2014 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
2015 – Solo exhibition “Relief”, The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking “Seacourt”, Bangor, United Kingdom.
2015 – II DI CARTA/PAPERMADE Biennale Internazionale di Opere di Carta, Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy.
2016 – International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2016 ROC National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
2016 – Solo exhibition “Where I am”, Art Gallery TryptichArt, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 – 6th Guanlan International Print Biennial 2017, China Print Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, South China.
2017 – 45th International Print Award Carmen Arozena 2017, Museum Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain; Casa Salazar, La Palma city, Canary Islands, Spain.
2018 – “New Prints 2018/Winter”, International Print Center New York, New York, USA.
2018 – 3rd Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, Belgium.
2018 – Kuala Lumpur International Miniprint Exhibition 2018 Gallery 3B, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2018 – Solo exhibition “Landen”, Gallery “Wetterney”, Berlin, Germany.
2018 – 18th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany.
2018 – “Engravers of the World”, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2018 – 10th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (BIMPE X), Federation Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2018 – Solo exhibition “Reflection”, Sky Art Foundation /ART TSUM, Kiev, Ukraine.
2019 – Megalo International Print Prize 2019, Megalo Print Studio+Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
2019 – Solo exhibition “Focus Ukraine – Україна у фокусі / Olesya Dzhurayeva”, Nordens Ljus Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
2019 – Solo exhibition “Stories”, Museum of Kyiv history, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 – 11th BIECTR (Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières), Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
2019 – 104th NIKA ART EXHIBITION 2019, National Art Center in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 – X INTERNATIONAL ENGRAVING EXHIBITION – CREMONA 2019, Cultural Center “Santa Maria della Pietà”, Cremona, Italy.
2019 – Salon des Beaux Arts 2019, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France.
2020 – International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
2020 – Imprint. Ukrainian Printmaking of the 20th – 21th Centuries, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 – 6th Graphic Art Biennial оf Szeklerland Transylvanian Art Centre, Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna County, Romania.
2020 – “Linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva / Woodcut by Vojtech Kovarik”, Hochdruckpartner gallery, Leipzig, Germany.
2021 – International Print Triennial in Krakow MTG2021 “Dissonant Futures”, Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland.
2021 – 36 Leipziger Grafikbörse “Hortus secretus”, Museum und Kunstsammlung Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, Germany.
2021 – 22nd Triennale Grenchen, Mini Print 2021, Grenchen, Switzerland.
2021 – The Second Contest “Hommage a trois”, The International Association «Duana de les Arts» (AIDA), Barcelona, Spain.
2021 – Solo exhibition “Wandering into the moment”, ArtEast Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2021 – International Triennial of Contemporary Prints of Liege, La Boverie, Liege, Belgium.
2021 – 11e Triennale Mondiale de l’Estampe, Galerie municipale d’Art Contemporain / AMAC, Chamalieres, France.
2021 – “Nancy Catandella, Olesya Dzhurayeva, and Margaret Still”, Green Kill Art Gallery, Kingston, NY, USA.
2021 – “Fragile memories. Olesya Dzhurayeva/ Emmanuel Gatti”, Contemporary art gallery Triptych Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – “The Best of Ukraine Art. Masters and Contemporary”, Ukrainian Cultural Center in France, Paris, France.
2022 – “International Handprinted Edition”, TONG-IN Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2022 – The exhibition of Ukrainian artists “Ucraina Terra Libera” as part of the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice Art Gallery, Venice, Italy.
2022 – Signs of Peace: Contemporary Ukrainian and Italian printmaking in dialogue, Casa della Memoria, Milan, Italy.
2022 – Linocut today XII – Graphic Arts Award of the City of Bietigheim-Bissingen, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
2022 – 10th Ulsan International Woodcut Print Art Festival, Ulsan, South Korea.
2022 – International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
2022 – 21st International Biennial ” Petit Format de Papier “, Centre Culturel Action-Sud de Viroinval, Nismes, Belgium.
2022 – Charity Exhibition “Ukrainian Voices of Art” as part of the Berlin Art Week, SVPL Collection, Berlin, Germany.
2022 – “Individual formats. Ukrainians”, Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin, Germany.
2022 – “Virtual Interconnections” as part of the International Printmaking Conference IMPACT12, Bristol, United Kingdom.
2022 – 37 Leipziger Grafikbörse “Turbulenzen”, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany.
2023 – The exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art “The Time Has Come”, Open Society Foundations / ArtEast Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2023 – “Ukrainian Art in Italy – Human Rights. Padova – Kerson”, Altinate San Gaetano Cultural Center, Padua, Italy.
2023 – “Innovation in Contemporary Drawing and Graphic Art II”, Abigail Gallery and Auction House, Budapest, Hungary.
2023 – “Fragile Memories. Olesya Dzhurayeva / Emmanuel Gatti / Ariane Fruit “, Etablissement Culturel Solidaire, Paris, France.
2023 – Solo Exhibition “Somewere in Ukraine”, Forshey Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2023 – Solo Exhibition “Olesya Dzhurayeva. Exposition Linogravure”, Centre Culturel Le Bief, Ambert, France.
2023 – 13th BIECTR (Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières), Trois-Rivières, Canada.
2023 – Art Theorema #3 “Krisis” project , Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy.
Selected prizes:
2016 – “Rene Carcan Public Prize”, II Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Edition 2016, Brussels, Belgium.
2019 – Le Grand “Prix Félix Bracquemond”, Salon des Beaux Arts 2019, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
2020 – “Award for technical excellence”, 4th International Printmaking Biennial Cacak, Cacak, Serbia.
2020 – “The Prize of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts”, 6th Graphic Art Biennial оf Szeklerland, Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna County, Romania.
2021 – “Prize for innovation”, 22nd Triennale Grenchen, Mini Print 2021, Grenchen, Switzerland.
2021 – “First Prize”, Second Contest “Hommage a trois” in the category “Patricia Highsmith”, The International Association «Duana de les Arts» (AIDA), Barcelona, Spain.
2021 – “Second Prize”, 11e Triennale Mondiale de l’Estampe, Chamalieres, France
2021 – “First Prize”, “Collage Obsession” International Collage Biennial, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania.
2023 – “Honorable mention”, 13th BIECTR (Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières), Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Collections:
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
Civic Collection of the Town of Schio, Italy
Cristiano Varella Memorial Foundation, Brazil.
Dnipropetrovsk Fine Art Museum, Ukraine.
Cabinet of Drawings and Prints Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, Italy.
Cluj Art Museum, Romania.
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Collection and Archive of the Southern Graphics Council International, USA.
Prahova County Art Museum, Ploiesti, Romania.
International Printmaking Triennial of Ulus, Belgrade,Serbia.
Art Museum of Iasi – “Moldova” National Museum, Iasi, Romania.
“Carmen Arozena Award Collection” which belongs to the Cabildo Insular de la Palma, Spain.
Greek Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (Alzheimer Hellas), Greece.
Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany.
International graphic art collection of the Civic Museum “Ala Ponzone”, Cremona, Italy.
International Printmaking Biennial Collection, Cacak, Serbia.
Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, Macao, China.
Graphic collection of Transylvanian Art Center, Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna County, Romania.
Art Collection of the Port Authority of Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
Chang Kil-Hwan Art Museum, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
Prints Cabinet of the Triennale Mondiale de l’Estampe, Chamalieres, France.
Graphic collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya (National library of Catalonia), Spain.
Collection of the museum Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
Bavarian State Library / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany.
Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar, Germany.
Collection of Associazione Nazionale Incisori Contemporanei, Montebelluna, Italy.
Art Collection of the Port Authority of Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection, London, United Kingdom.
RE’s Diploma Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton collection, Treviso, Italy.
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