Olga Tobreluts

In 1989 Olga Tobreluts graduated from the Industrial College of building materials and details (Leningrad), Department of architecture. In the same year she entered GASU (State University of architecture and civil engineering) at the faculty of architecture. In 1992-1994 she studied at ART + COM (Berlin) at the Department of computer graphics and animation.

In 1991 she founded a laboratory for the study of Ornament at the Leningrad society "A-Z".In 1998-2000, she opened the Center for the art of Photography in the Youth house of Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg.

The starting point in the artist's work was the participation in the exhibition of New Artists at the Leningrad Palace bridge in 1989, where Olga Tobreluts showed their abstract paintings. In 1994, Olga Tobreluts joined the circle of artists Of the new Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Timur Novikov. After studying in Berlin, the artist radically changes her style, ceases to engage in painting and goes headlong into computer graphics, combined with photography and 3D-models. In 1995 Tobreluts won the first prize "Videovision "at the festival "Third reality" in St. Petersburg (video"Woe from Wit").  1998-prize "the Best European computer graphics" at THE griffelkunst festival (together with the artist Orlan), Hamburg, Germany. In 2000, O. Tobreluts entered the top ten winners of the international competition of media institutions (Taiwan).

In 2000 Olga started work on a grandiose project – a series of 54 works "Caesar and Galilean" on the drama of the same name by Heinrich Ibsen, which was exhibited at Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo, and then at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Since 2003 Olga almost completely stops working with the computer and returns to painting.

In 2016, she was elected to the honorary academies of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In 1989 Olga Tobreluts graduated from the Industrial College of building materials and details (Leningrad), Department of architecture. In the same year she entered GASU (State University of architecture and civil engineering) at the faculty of architecture. In 1992-1994 she studied at ART + COM (Berlin) at the Department of computer graphics and animation.

In 1991 she founded a laboratory for the study of Ornament at the Leningrad society "a-Ya".In 1998-2000, she opened the Center for the art of Photography in the Youth house of Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg.

The starting point in the artist's work was the participation in the exhibition of New Artists at the Leningrad Palace bridge in 1989, where Olga Tobreluts showed their abstract paintings. In 1994, Olga Tobreluts joined the circle of artists Of the new Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Timur Novikov. After studying in Berlin, the artist radically changes her style, ceases to engage in painting and goes headlong into computer graphics, combined with photography and 3D-models. In 1995 Tobreluts won the first prize "Videovision "at the festival "Third reality" in St. Petersburg (video"Woe from Wit").  1998-prize "the Best European computer graphics" at THE griffelkunst festival (together with the artist Orlan), Hamburg, Germany. In 2000, O. Tobreluts entered the top ten winners of the international competition of media institutions (Taiwan).

In 2000 Olga started work on a grandiose project – a series of 54 works "Caesar and Galilean" on the drama of the same name by Heinrich Ibsen, which was exhibited at Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo, and then at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Since 2003 Olga almost completely stops working with the computer and returns to painting.

In 2016, she was elected to the honorary academies of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Photos of the works are provided by Ural Vision Gallery.