Studio Offbeats 30.0: Oleg Frolov
Zeitgenössische Kunst Konzert
Studio Offbeats 30.0:
Oleg Frolov - Hey Leute, wollt ihr meine Collagen sehen?
The exhibition brings together a series of collages made since 2023, each composed from pages of other artists’ catalogs acquired at Walther König in Vienna.
Oleg Frolov (* Moscow 1983) is a graduate of the Faculty of Translation of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow in 2006. He continued to study in the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow between 2012–2013.
Frolov’s sculptural practice involves unspecific modes of production, such as presenting ready-bought items and outsourcing of manual labor. In order to grasp how society at large utilizes the history and developments of fine art, his methods refer to an array of creative activities, such as hobbies, edutainment for kids, parties and other leisure events. In this somehow dissolved state, he sees art as an integral part of an overall discussion of democracy. The broader intellectual frame of topics, such as biological turn in theory, demography, human emotional and cognitive spheres, is crucial in Frolov’s work, which addresses tense interdependency of people and artifacts.
Oleg Frolov lives and works in Vienna since 2023 and studies sculpture and installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The exhibition is realised with kind support by Walther König Buchhandlung Vienna.