Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia
Sergey Bratkov's class Photography, Sculpture and Video-Art.
curriculum vitae
Oleg Ustinov
Based in
Vienna, Austria
Oleg Ustinov was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1984.
His practice explores the boundaries of the media environment and provocative interaction with it, while simultaneously developing the possibilities of painting through postdigital painting, collage and the object.
Ustinov works across painting, graphics, collage, sculpture, installations and sound experiments. Polarization of creative efforts has remained an important part of his practice since his first experiments with the TnD group in 2006.
His work has been presented in exhibitions including the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art and Don't You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics at M HKA in Antwerp.
From 2018 to the present, Ustinov has also been the curator of the pop-up gallery llil.space.
education
education
2011—2014
2004—2009
South-Russian Institute for Humanities
Department of Advertising.
practice
selected projects
2022
X-Nowness
Exhibition view, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland.
2021
Road Incidents
Collaborative series with Ivan Gorshkov.
Descent
Painting series developed through layered printing and the 4d/4p(+∞) method.
2020
Romeo 3.1
Painting combining spray, marker, novel drafts and multiple printing.
UUuUU
A series built around an abstract chain of U-like elements and the relationship between figurative potential and abstract painting.
Caustic Windows
A series combining manual and digital painting, developed through synaesthetic associations with electronic music.
2018
4d/4p(+p)
A painting language based on repeated alternations between drawing and mechanical printing.
Liquid Geometry
A series investigating relationships between handmade and digital painting through geometric areas.
2016
United Artists
An anonymous artists' society and experimental musical project responding to problems of the art system.
After the Explosions
A continuation of the Explosions series.
2015—2016
The Explosions
A series exploring painting, collage and the metaphor of an event expanding through time.
2014
The Administration
An intervention and media project exploring surveillance, public space and the circulation of information.
Lunch Break
An installation and research project developed at Elektrozavod in Moscow.
2013
IDM
A project translating methods of Intelligent Dance Music into large-format painting.
Poultry Pavilion
A video sculpture combining tables, a plasma screen, chicken eggs, a weather vane and the music video Feast.
HAARP
A continuation of the musical component of The Pipes Are Burning.
2012
What Does the Snore Want?
A performance-lecture developed through a speculative investigation of snoring and accompanied by sculptural objects containing recordings.
The Pipes Are Burning
An installation combining burning pipes, a stage and rap music in response to the political atmosphere of Moscow in 2011.
Kick-Art
A performance developed during studies at the Rodchenko School.
2010
David Lynch Is Our Candidate!
An intervention and media campaign developed during the 2010 city council elections in Rostov-on-Don.
selected exhibitions
exhibitions & presentations
2022
Face Control
IRAGUI Gallery, Moscow.
2022
Close. Far Away. Closer
Victoria Gallery, Samara.
2022
X-Nowness
Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland.
2020
Caustic Windows
Name Gallery / Luda Gallery, DK Gromov, St. Petersburg.
2018
Happy Hardcore
OVCHARENKO Gallery, Moscow.
Up to Date
llil.space, Rostov-on-Don.
2014
Don't You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics
M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Moscow.