Olga Shishko
Curator
Short Bio
Olga Shishko (b. 1967) is a curator, media art researcher and founding director of the MediaArtLab Center for Culture and Art, which was created in 1998 and has been part of Ca Foscari University (Venice) since 2023. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions, including Bill Viola. Journey of the Soul, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 2021; There is a Beginning in the End. The Secret of Tintoretto’s Fraternity, Chiesa di San Fantin, Venice, 2019; Man as a bird. Images of journeys. Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice, 2017; The Golden Age of the Russian Avant-garde (with Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway), Museum and Exhibition Association “Manezh,” Moscow, 2014.
Currently, she works with the Media Art Lab Archive and researches video art tendencies in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2023, Olga took the position of Chief Art Curator at CIFRA Platform for Media Art. Since 2025, she has taken the position of Head of CIFRA Artistic Vision Council. She lives and works in Venice, Italy.
CONTACT DETAILS
oshishko26@gmail.com, oshishko@cifra.com
+39 348 519 4150 (IT)
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
Bill Viola. Journey of the Soul,
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
This first solo exhibition in Russia
covered fourteen years of Bill Vio
la’s practice. A must-see show pre
sented artworks that summarize a
creative search of one of the most
influential media artist in the world
focusing on the human condition,
the journey of human from birth to
death, and the transformations of
the soul. It was the first time in the
history of The Pushkin Museum,
that media art occupied the main
exhibition halls of the institution.
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2020
There is a Beginning in the End. The Secret of Tintoretto’s Fraternity, Chiesa di San Fantin, Venice
The special project by innovative
division of The Pushkin Museum
devoted to the 500th anniversary
of Tintoretto challenged the stan-
dard format of the exhibition expe-
rience inside a newly opened after
renovation baroque church.
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Publications
Research catalog Projections of the Avant-Garde, Artguide Editions, Moscow, 2015
Expanded Cinema—III. Mockumentary: Reality is Not Enough, MediaArtLab — Center for Art and Culture, Moscow, 2013
Anthology of Russian Video Art MediaArtLab—Center for Art an Moscow, 2002