Persten

1970 born in Leningrad
1988 graduated from Architectural College, Leningrad
1989 completed a course in computer graphics at the Institute ART+COM, Berlin, Germany
1992 organized Laboratory for the Study of Ornament, St.Petersburg
1995 first prize of Videovision for videofilm "Woe from Wit"
Festival "The Third reality" in St. Petersburg (catalogue)
1998 International Award for Video Art "The Manifest of Neoakademism" Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
1998 opened the PhotoArtCentre in St. Petersburg
1998 Second prize in competition GRIFFELKUNST "Best European Computer graphics" Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
Lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1993
1st International forum computer art Grafikon
Woe from Wit, Exploitory Laboratory.
1994
Exhibition of Computer Photographs, Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg
1996
Empire reflections. Aidan Gallery, Moscow;
Computer Art, New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Photocenter, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Computer Photographs, Sketches, New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Tendencies and Photos. Maly Manezh Moscow
Digital International Media Art Symposium, St. Petersburg
1997
Photographs. ARTKIOSK, Brussels, Belgium
1998
Models, An Exhibition of photos. PhotoArtCentre, St. Petersburg
Photographs. ARTKIOSK, Brussels, Belgium
Feats of Hercules, Gallo-Roman museum, Brussels, Belgium
Latest works. With PMMK Ostende Art Kiosk, Belgium
Models, Photo Gallery, Turku, Finland
Feats of Hercules. Gallo-Roman Museum. Brussels, Belgium
Family portrait. Aidan Gallery, Moscow
1999
Mixed Media, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Fear of O.T., Gallery 21 at 10 Pushkinskaya Art Centre. FNO project. St. Petersburg
2000
Sacred Figures, Seljord Kunstförening, Norway (catalogue)
Odysseus. Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Olga Tobreluts, Galerie Inge Baecker. Cologne, Germany
Allegory, Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg
Macedonian Dream, Freud Dream Museum St. Petersburg
2001
Olga Tobreluts, Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany
2002
Abstract Landscape, Fotoimage Gallery, St Petersburg
2003
Figures Sacrees, Orel Art Gallery, Paris-Moscow
Emperor and Galilean, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Emperor and Galilean, Heine Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
Olga Tobreluts, Modern Contemporary Art Gallery. San Marino
Art Digital, Centre of contemporary Art, Moscow
Emperor and Galilean, D-137 Gallery, St. Petersburg
Emperor and Galilean, JMS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Sacred Figures, Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg
2004
Digital Classicism, JMS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Olga Tobreluts, Art Kiosk Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Sacred figures, Galleria Il Segno Del Tempo, Milan, Italy
2006
Tarquin and Lucretia, D137 Gallery, St. Petersburg
2007
Thining Factor, Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
2010
Olga Tobreluts, Retrospective, The Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1989
Exhibition of Miniatures, Museum of Miniatures, Toronto, Canada
1991-92
Museum Palace Bridge, Leningrad
1992
Graficon 92, Moscow
Anigraph, VDNKh, Moscow
1993
Art Myth. First performance of Woe from Wit, Manege, Moscow
1994
III St Petersburg Biennale, Manege, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Renaissance and Resistance, Marble Palace, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1994-96
Self-identification, Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen (catalogue)
1995
Passiones Luci, SCCA Annual Exhibition, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
The Third Reality. International Forum of Computer Art, St. Petersburg
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea, Audience Sympathy Award (catalogue)
Videovidenie, SCARP exhibition, Planetarium, St. Petersburg, video installation Third Reality
1996
Photobiennale, Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
Idylle und Katastrophe, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)
Metaphern des Entrucktseins, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
Tendencies in Photography, Small Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
Interaction: Chance Visions, SCCA Annual Exhibition , St. Petersburg
Museum of the New Academy, Reserve Palace, Pushkin, St Petersburg
KONCEPT, Internationall exhibition of Contemporary photography, Zagreb, Croatia (catalogue)
1997
"Family portret” Months of Photography" ,St.Pauls Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia (catalogue)
Alternative Museum. (coupled with Brian Eno’s installation Light), Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, St Petersburg
Last Five Years, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Kabinet - New Russian Classicism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1997-98
Photography from St Petersrbug, Prague
1998
A Family portrait, SIGGRAPH, N.Y. USA (catalogue)
Involuntary sinners, Argumenty I Fakty, Moscow
BREAK, New Russian Photography, Cologne, Germany (catalogue)
2nd International Photobiennale, Moscow (catalogue)
August, Neoacademic Photography from St. Petersburg, Union of Latvian art museums. Museum of Foreign Art
Best European digital photo, Museum Lodac GRIFFELKUNST, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
Photography from St. Petersburg, Center of Photography, Turku, Finland
1999
Kunst & Computer, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
Fauna, The State Centre of Art in Moscow (catalogue)
Heaven, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, London Tate Gallery (catalogue)
Photo Festival in Nice, PhotoCentre, Nice, France (catalogue)
After the Wall, Modern Art Museum, Stockholm (catalogue)
Classicism Today, Ostende museum, Belgium (catalogue)
2000
Millenium, Tavrichesky Palace The Dyagilev Art Centre “Antiquity”
Contemporary art in the Traditional museum, Stiglitz Museum “Still life”, St .Petersburg
Art forum, Berlin
Odysseus, Traveling exhibition, Norway
Space of Tradition, Tomsk Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk Surikov Museum, Kemerove Museum, Novosibirsk Picture Gallery (catalogue)
Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk
Grani, Kurgansky Oblastnoy Museum
RUSSISK NEOAKADEMISME, Bornholms Kunstmuseum (catalogue)
ISKUSSTWO 2000, New Kunst from Moskow, St. Petersburg, Kiew, Kunstverein Rosenheim (catalogue)
ART FUTURE, Taywan
2001
Out of control, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Rotterdam 2001 – St.Petersburg 2003, gallery Koffie verkeert, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Grani, State Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov, Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk
Sybaris, Baltic contemporary art biennale
Ciclo espositivo ex chiesetta di Sant Anna, galleria d arte moderna e contemporanea, San Marino (catalogue)
Beauty & Eroticism”, Museum Gasunie Groningen, Holland (catalogue)
Abstraction in Russia, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2001
Kunst from St.Petersburg, Museum Contemporary Art Tallin
2002
Emperor and Galilean, Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)
A she art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Snowgirl, Zacheta National Gallery, Warshawa and National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (catalogue)
Die Griechische Klassik idee oder wirklichkeit, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin und in der Kunst und Ausstellungshalle Bonn (catalogue)
Fotobiennale, Large Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
Русское искусство XX-XXI веков, Красноярск,Нижний Новгород,Тольятти, Новосибирск
Artist of Ideal, Palazo de Forte, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
Doll’s House, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway (catalogue)
Russian Symbolism, Ludvig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (catalogue)
Glovane Figurazione internazionale, Gallery Planetario, Trieste
2003
Photo Los Angeles, The 12th n\international Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition “Sacred Figures” (catalogue)
Foreign visions, Museum Contemporary art Skopie, Lowenpalais, Berlin
The Fourth Sex: the Extreme Territory of Adolescence, Stazione Leopolda, Florence. Curator Franchesko Bonami, Ralf Simons (catalogue)
Eva, Venus, Madonna, Gemeente Maasmechelen (catalogue)
Ludvig Museum in the Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Neue ANSATZE DUSSELDORF Kunsthalle, Germany (catalogue)
Da Anzinger a Warhol, Exibition D'Apres Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Torino, Italia (catalogue)
Imagerie Art Fashion, Museum Revoltella Italy (catalogue)
“Touch me” Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg
Emperor and Galilean, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Emperor and Galilean, Heine Onstad Museum, Oslo (catalogue)
Olga Tobreluts, Long&Ryle, London
The Rave of Europe, Luke&A gallery, London
2004
May Gods Becoming Men, Fissiras Museum in Athens (catalogue). Curator Edward Lusien -Smith
La creazione ansiosa, Da Picasso a Bacon, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona,Italy (catalogue)
54 internationale darte g.b.salvi 2004 Palazzo ex Pretura (catalogue)
...et la femme crИa l'homme, Espace Belleville, Paris, France. Curator Francis Parent (catalogue)
Art and Geography, The National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
Ideal and Reality, Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
Ekaterina, Fruenmuseum, Bonn
IL NUDO, Galleria ART Modern Bologna, Italy. Curator Peter Weermaer (catalogue)
FOTOBIENALE, Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia (catalogue)
TRANSVERSALISTES RUSSES, Orel Art, Paris (catalogue)
KANDINSKY e lanima Russia, PALAZZO FORTI (catalogue)
Days of Flight - 100 paintings from State Tretyakov gallery, Yaroslav Art Museum, Russia
2005
VIII BIENNIAL OF GRAPHICS, Kaliningrad, Russia (catalogue)
ALTRE LILITH, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Roma, Italy (catalogue)
Accomplices, Moscow biennale of contemporary State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005-2006
EUROPALIA RUSSIA , Belgium
2006
Let there be video - Russian video art 1996-2006, Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)
Sense of Life – Sense of Art. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (catalogue)
Fotobiennale, Large Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
2006-2007
Mutations, Contemporary European photography, Moscow
2006
OPTICA – Tarquin and Lucretia, The Gijon International Fastival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain