‍Born in 1969 in Moscow. Artist,curator, art theorist, educator, and one of the key figures of post-Sovietconceptual and actionist art. Since the late 1980s he has been the founder and ideologist of Moscow politicalactionism. In the early 1990s he became known for his radical performances and actionsexploring themes of power, language, ideology, and public space. In the 2000s he turned to object-based art and sculpture, while continuing towork actively as a curator and art critic. Since 2011 he has been the founder and rector of the BAZA Institute ofContemporary Art and the BAZA Publishing House. Osmolovsky’s works have been acquired at various auctions, including Phillipsde Pury & Company in London (BRIC) and Sotheby’s.
He lives and works in Berlin.

‍Selected Solo Exhibitions

‍1992 — The Leopards Breakinto the Temple…, Regina Gallery, Moscow
1994 — My Way, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
1996 — Situative Action für PDS, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1997 — Order for the Army of Arts, XL Gallery, Moscow
2003 — Seven Deaths in Moscow, XL Gallery, Moscow
2004 — How Political Positions Become Form, Stella Art Gallery,Moscow
2006 — Hardware, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
2013 — Cadavre Exquis and Dodici Suicide, ThomasBrambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy
2013 — Parallel Convergences with Paweł Althamer, ParallelProgram of the 55th Venice Biennale, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
2015 — Avant-garde Chancellery,pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow
2021 — Mosquito Hymn,XL Gallery, Moscow
2025 —  BonbonsToxiques, GalerieVallois, Paris

‍Selected Group Exhibitions

‍1992 — MultiplicityCulture. Itinerari dell’arte in un mondo che cambia, Museo del Folklore,Rome, Italy
1992 — 3rd International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1992 — Territoria Italiano, Milan, Italy
1993 — Trio Acoustico: Dmitri Goutov, Yuri Leiderman, AnatolyOsmolovsky, Centre for Contemporary Creation, Tours, France1993 — Aperto ’93, 45thVenice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1994 — Identity and Selfhood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1994 — Fluchtpunkt Moskau, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1995 — No Man’s Land, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen,Denmark
1995 — Conjugations: Moscow Art Scene Today, Munich, Germany
1996 — Steirische Herbst, Graz, Austria
2000 — Manifesta 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art,Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 — 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
2003 — Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
2003 — Berlin–Moscow/Moscow–Berlin 1950–2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau,Berlin, Germany
2006 — Russia!, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
2007 — Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany
2010 — Modernikon, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2011 — Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York,USA (curators: Massimiliano Gioni and Jarrett Gregory)
2014 — Mike Nelson selects the first in aseries of four displays of the V-A-C Collection, Whitechapel Gallery,London, UK
2015 — How to Live Together? — MainProject of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2019 — Under Pressure, Popov Art Gallery,Moscow (curators: Svetlana Baskova and Yegor Sofronov)
2021–2022 — Odd  Convergences…,Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (curator: Jean-Hubert Martin)

‍Selected Curatorial Projects

‍1990 — Explosion of the NewWave (with Grigory Gusarov), French Film Festival, Moscow
1993 — The War Continues, Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
1994 — Impertinent, Insensitive, Ignorant…, Regina Gallery, Moscow
1996 — New Revolutionary Radicalism, conference and seminar,Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow
2001 — Instead of Art, Zverev Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2002 — 100% View, Regina Gallery, Moscow
2004 — Art Without Justification, Shchusev State Museum ofArchitecture, Moscow
2009 — Mausoleum of Rebellion, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2017 — Hurrah! Sculpture!, Manege, Saint Petersburg

‍Awards
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2007 — Winner of the Kandinsky Prize inthe category “Project of the Year”

‍Public Collections
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‍State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
MuHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Tate Modern, London
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Simon de Pury Collection
MG+MSUM / Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
and others