OLGA BOLDYREFF

Olga Boldyreff, of Russian origin, was born in France in 1957. After studying art in Nantes, she travelled to expand her research more fully and develop a mobility aesthetic. Since the 80s, she has offered a completely new look at drawing, sculpture and performance by combining unconventional materials and techniques with traditional Fine Arts practices. She has invented a grammar, midway between post-minimalism and popular art, which raises the question of the borderline between major art and minor art. The rational and irrational aspects of her oeuvre are based on the dual Eastern/Western influence of her compound identity. Questions of time and space are expressed in an intimate and yet monumental dimension.
Olga Boldyreff has exhibited regularly in France and abroad since the 80s. In 2006, the Musée de la Tapisserie in Tournai in Belgium hosted a retrospective of 25 years of her creative work, l'or et le fil (gold and wire). During the summer, she took the Transsiberian railway from St Petersbourg to Irkutsk and on to Lake Baikal. At the beginning of 2007, she was in Russia before being invited to the Kerava Museum in Finland and the Vasteräs Museum in Sweden. In 2008, under the title Voyages et autres investigations 1 (Travels and other investigations 1), she showed some new oeuvres and other older ones at the art college and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Calais. The second part of Travel and other investigations was held at Galerie Stanislas Bourgain in Paris in march and April 2009. Third and fourth parts in 2010 in St Petersburg's Anna Akmhatova museum and Nantes Fine Arts Museum.