Olga Klimovitskaya
Hello world
About the Item
‘Hello world’ is a programme that produces the phrase ‘Hello, world!’ on a screen or other device. Variations with different punctuation or case are also used — for example, ‘Hello world’. This is usually the first example of a programme in programming textbooks, and for many students such a programme is their first experience when learning a new language.
The performance ‘Hello World’ took place at the 24-hour exhibition APXIV-24, held as part of the Parallel Programme of the 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art. In this work the artist practised the transition to digital reality, alienating the socially constructed female body to feel free of objectification.
About the Artist
Olga Klimovitskaya is a multimedia artist, born in 1981 in Kazakhstan. Lives and works in London. She is a co-founder and resident of the APXIV art group. Participated in the Parallel programme of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (APXIV, Moscow, 2018), Copenhagen Art Week 2019 (Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019), ‘Post-Industrial APXINALLE’ (Urals Branch of the A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, 2020). Among her group exhibitions are ‘Land of the Museum’ (PERMM Museum of Modern Art, Perm, 2019), the Presence International Festival of Contemporary Photography (Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg, 2019 and 2020), ‘Communities and Spaces’ (CCA Winzavod, Moscow, 2019), ‘Support Group’ (Cube.Moscow, Moscow, 2020), the 1st Altai Biennale of Contemporary Art (Ust-Koksinsk District, Gorny Altai, 2020), the 7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect (Gaza Palace of Culture, St. Petersburg, 2020), ‘Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene’ (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021). Olga works with traditional media such as installation and sculpture, and with digital media including 3D and augmented reality. Her research also extends to immersive and procedural practices.
