Olga Chernysheva show captures a society in flux

A new multimedia exhibition by leading Russian artist Olga Chernysheva depicting life in post-socialist society has opened at Germany’s Kunsthalle Erfurt. The exhibition, Compossibility, explores the increasing fragmentation of Russian society through the use of multiple media including photography, film, drawing, painting and installation. Chernysheva depicts ordinary Russians, from market women and foreign workers to women wrapped in furs, struggling to negotiate a society in turmoil in the wake of communism’s collapse and the hypercapitalist excesses of the Noughties.

Chernysheva lives and works in Moscow and represented Russia at the Venice Biennale in 2001. The exhibition is a collaboration between Kunstalle Erfurt and the V-A-C Foundation, a Moscow-based non-profit organisation. It runs until 25 August.