Olga Sviblova Explained

Olga Sviblova
Birth Date:	1953 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	Moscow, USSR
Nationality:	Russian
Occupation:	Curator, film director, arts administrator
Years Active:	Since 1987

Olga Lvovna Sviblova (Russian: Ольга Львовна Свиблова, born on June 6, 1953, in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian curator, film director, and arts administrator. In 1996, she founded the Moscow House of Photography, which later became the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow; she has been a director there since the institution's establishment.^[1]

Life and career

A graduate of Moscow State University with majors in psychology, she has later pursued a Ph. D. researching psychology in arts.^[2] In 1970s, she took a job as a street sweeper, to have, in her own words, "a job for intelligent people".^[3] In the 1980s, she created a number of documentaries, earning her prominence both in the USSR, and internationally.^[4] The first exhibition she organized was in 1987, when she arranged for a showcase of emerging Soviet artists.^[5] Over a career spanning three decades, she has curated more than five hundred exhibitions of contemporary visual art and photography in Russia, and internationally.^[6]

In 2007^[7] and in 2009,^[8] she was the curator of the national pavilion of Russia at the Venice Biennale.

Selected awards

• Order of Friendship (2007), Russia
• Chevalier, and Officer of Legion d'Honeur (2008, 2017), France^{[9] [10]}
• Order of Merit (2011), Italy^[11]

Further reading

• Web site: Groskop . Viv . Secret history . . 2007-05-12 . en-GB . 2021-01-04 . mdy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Multimedia Art Museum's director: Life as work of art. Sópova. Alexandra. 2013-12-21. en-US. 2016-09-11.
2. Web site: Olga Sviblova. The Russia Forum 2012. 2016-09-11.
3. News: First Person: Olga Sviblova. Duguid. As told to Hannah. 2008-03-08. Financial Times. 0307-1766. 2016-09-11.
4. Book: Stites, Richard. Passion and Perception: Essays on Russian Culture. New Academia Publishing. 2010. 9780982806166. 216.
5. News: Russia's Photo Impresario. Brownell. Ginanne. 2010-05-28. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-09-11.
6. Web site: Руководство. www.mamm-mdf.ru. 2016-09-11.
7. Web site: Kallaway - Opening Minds. mediacentre.kallaway.co.uk. 2016-09-11.
8. Web site: Diverse Russian Art on Show at Venice Biennale Arts and Ideas. 2016-09-11.
9. Web site: Официальный сайт Министерства культуры Российской Федерации - Свиблова Ольга Львовна, Директор Мультимедиа-арт-музея.... mkrf.ru. 2016-09-11.
10. Web site: Владимир Потанин стал Кавалером Ордена Почетного Легиона. www.forbes.ru. 2017-08-11.
11. Web site: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. web. Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto. Quirinale. 2016-09-11.