Oleg Kolimbet is a visual artist with a focus on photographic work and the photobook. Born in Bering Island (Kamchatka), Oleg currently lives in St.Petersburg, Russia. He studied German and English philology at St. Petersburg University and business administration at University of Walles. In 2000- 2022 he studied documentary and post-documentary photography at Docdocdoc school of modern photography in St.Petersburg.
Oleg’s work explores personal and collective memory, as well addresses themes of changes in cultural landscape and the impact of these changes on people.
His first book “So Far, So Close. In Search of Bering Island” was shortlisted for the PhotoEspaña Best Book Award 2024.
Books:
2024 “Father Son Father” / Dummy book
2024 “Let it be forgotten” / Zine, self-published
2023 “15 motorcycles” / Zine, self-published
2023 “So far, so close. In search of Bering Island” / Self-published art book
2023 “All is not what it seems” / Collective zine, self-published
2022 “So far, so close” / Dummy book
2022 “Sami po sebe” / Zine, self-published
AWARDS:
2024 PhotoEspaña Best Book Award / Shortlisted
2021 CPOY 76 / Team Picture Story: Bryansk region. Silver
2021 Open contest of “Union of Photographic Artists of Russia”/ Nature. Finalist
2021 Russian Photo Week / Nature and Landscapes. 2d place
2020 Urban Photo Awards / Streets. Selected photographers
2020 Black&White Magazine / Smartphone contest. Winner
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 So far, so close. In search of Bering Island /Museum of the History of Photography, St.Petersburg, Russia
Group EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Yerevan international photography festival/ Varpet, Yerevan, Armenia
2024 The best photography books of the year/Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
2024 Self-publishing festivals “Zherdela” ( Stavropol and Rostov-on-Don), “Nizina Fest” (St.Petersburg)
2023 Self-publishing festivals “Zherdela” ( Rostov-on-Don), “Nizina Fest” (St.Petersburg), “Korzina” (Sergiev Posad),
“Zine Zine”(Khabarovsk), “Razvorot” (Voronezh), “Samizdal”(St.Petersburg), “Booknol”(Samara)
2022 Self-publishing festivals “Nizina Fest” (Samara),“Zherdela” ( Rostov-on-Don), “Bespechatniki” (Tyumen)
2021 “Photo Union. Solidarity”festival/ Suzdal Kremlin, Russia
2021 Tales of the Unwritten /Stelio Crise State Library, Trieste, Italy
2021 Russian Photo Week / Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia
2020 Trieste Photo Days / Museo del Territorio, Cormòns, Italy
2020 City VS Quarantine / Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
Collections:
Garage Museum Library (Moscow. Russia)
Aperture Foundation Library (New York, US)
Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain)
PIC.A Escuela Internacional de Fotografía (Alcobendas, Spain)
The Manege Central Exhibition Hall Library (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Docdocdoc Library (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Nizina Library (St.Petersburg, Russia)
PUBLICATIONS:
2024 Imprint (Russia)/ So far, so close
2023 Perimetro (Italy)/ Further only the forest
2022 RTVI (Russia)/ Further only the forest
2022 Bryanskaya ulitsa (Russia)/Only the forest remains
2021 Tales of the unwritten project (Italy)/Deep Down Inside
2021 Landscape Stories (Italy)/White beaches
2021 Republic (Russia) /Kronshtadt: another tomorrow
2021 Lenta.ru (Russia) /I was drawn here by my soul
2021 Spectaculum Magazine (Austria) /Theatre without walls
2020 Street Photography Magazine (USA) / Welcome to Baraholka
2020 Edge of Humanity Magazine (USA) / Cyclists From The Past
2020 Progressive street (Italy) / A little B/W story about two boys in a small town
2020 The Pictorial-list / Selected works
EDUCATION IN VIsual Arts:
2024: Art laboratory “Lived/Painted” for the study of ego-documents and diary practices , Saint-Petersburg
2020 – 2022: School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc, Saint-Petersburg
2022: Artist’s book workshop by Elena Kholkina and Feodora Kaplan, Saint-Petersburg
2022: Handmade bookbinding workshop by Irina Tarhanova, Saint-Petersburg
INTERVIEWS / Artist Talks/ PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
2024 Artist-tok in the “Photo Studio” of the Palace of Students’ Youth, St. Petersburg
2024 Artist talk at Nizina Festival, St. Petersburg
2024 Panel discussion “Zine as a way to preserve memory” in Gogol Library, St. Petersburg {Rus}
2024 Interview for Artistbook {Rus, Eng}
2023 Artist talk on Nizinafest Youtube{Rus}
2023 Interview for Artistbook {Rus, Eng}
2020 Interview for The Pictorial Mag {Eng}
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
from 2022 – Founder and curator of the OKHTALAB community of project photographers
PRINTS:
Аrchival pigment prints are available in Limited editions.
For purchasing information please visit Prints page.