OIga Gretcina's paintings display a mixture of admiration and disappointment, a cocktail of questions that are hard to clarity; longing for purity coexists here with Dionisius temptation of consumer civilization. And all this, as we say, belong to our life.
A. Morozov
Olga Nikolaevna Gretchina was 1947 in town Kovrov, Vladimir Region.
1972 Graduated from Moscow State Art institute named after Sourikov V.I.
1974 Membership in the Union of Artists.
Personal Exhibitions
1990 «M'ars» Gallery, Moscow.
1992 «Carlier» Gallery, France.
1993 «Pan Art» Gallery, Moscow.
1996 «Intercolor» Gallery, Moscow.
2001 «U Yara Gallery», Moscow.
2007 «U Yara Gallery», New Manege, Moscow.
2010 «U Yara Gallery», New Manege, Moscow.
Exhibitions
1972 IX Moscow Exhibition of Young Artists.
National Exhibition of Young Artists.
1973 National Exhibition of Placards, Vilnius.
1974 National Exhibition of Prints, Minsk.
1975 Fifth Republican Exhibition «Soviet Russia», Moscow.
«Women – Moscow Artists» Exhibition, Moscow.
1976 National Exhibition of Young Artists «The Youth of the Country»,
Moscow.
VI Biennale of Graphics, Krakow, Poland.
Soviet Sculpture and Graphics, Czechoslovak Republic.
1977 National Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the
Great October Socialist Revolution «Following Lenin's Way»,
Moscow.
Exhibition of Soviet Painting and Graphics, Vienna, Austria.
International Exhibition of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
VII Biennale of Baltic Countries, Rostock, GDR.
1978 National Exhibition of Young Artists, Minsk.
National Art Exhibition «The Young Guard of the Soviet Country»,
Moscow.
1979 First International Youth Triennale of Drawings, Nuremberg, FRG.
1981 Exhibition of Moscow Artists («Exhibition of 23»), Central House of
Artists, Moscow.
Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow.
1985 Triennale of Realistic Painting, Bulgaria (Diploma).
1986 Biennale of Graphics, Krakow, Poland. The First Prize.
«Cultural Workers in the Struggle for Peace», Manege, Moscow.
1990 «Soviet contemporary art» Alpha Cubic Gallery, Tokyo.
1990 «The Quest for Self-Expression. Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990», Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. USA.
1992 «XX century Russian art: Avant-garde-Glasnost», Nassau Country
Museum, USA.
1993 Central House of Artists, Moscow (Grechina, Geta, Pobedin,
Sherstyuk).
1994-1995 «Russian Collection, End of XX Century» I and II, M'ars Gallery,
Moscow.
1994 «Crystal Art» Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
1996 «Crystal Art» Gallery, Tokio, Japan.
1997 «The World of Sensual Things in Pictures», State Museum of Fine Arts
named after Poushkin A. S., M'ars Gallery, Moscow.
1998 Art-Salon 98, Moscow.
Art-Manege 98, Moscow.
1999 «Natura» Manege Gallery, Moscow.
«Tokiyskiy project» Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2000 «Vita-Stile» Gallery, Moscow.
2001 Artists Gathering by Decorative Art magazine Academy of Arts,
Moscow.
2002 Art-Manege, «Vert Gallery» , Moscow.
Charitable Auction in support of Operation Smile, Russia, Moscow.
«Women of Russia and China» Museum of Revolution, Peking,
China.
2003 Art-Manege 03, Moscow.
Artists Gathering by Decorative Art magazine Zsereteli Center of
Modern Art, Moscow.
Charitable Auction in support of Operation Smile, Russia, Moscow.
2004 Art-Manege 04, Center on Red Presnya street, Manege Gallery.
Zebra-Bliss Gallery, New Manege, Moscow.
Collections
Government Tretyakov Gallery Collections, Space technology and exploration Museum, Moscow and others.
Nuremberg Museum, Germany.
Alpha Cubic Gallery, Japan.
Zigzag Corporation, USA.
Mr.Ljudwig's Museum of Modern Art, Germany.
Reinhold Wurtr Museum, Germany.
«Crystal Art» Gallery, Japan.
Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, Belgium.
Schlunke's collections in Russia, USA, England, France, Turkey, Poland and many others.