Freischaffender Künstler. Nach Ateliers in Karlsruhe und Düsseldorf, lebt und arbeitet Igor Oleinikov seit 2007 in Berlin.
Klasse Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Ernennung zum Meisterschüler von Prof. Markus Lüpertz.
Klasse Prof. Jörg Immendorff, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Klasse Prof. Meuser, Kunstakademie Karlsruhe.
Agit-Prop-Maler, Lederwarenfabrik Smirnov, Krasnodar. Freischaffender Künstler
Kunstfachhochschule, Krasnodar
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Albertinum, Galerie neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Museum am Dom, Würzburg
Museum Art-Plus, Donaueschingen
“The characteristic of Oleinikov’s works is the ominous silence and morbid life of depicted persons. Still, the necessary dynamic is accomplished between outer calm and inner virility trough a technique that involves interlace of brush, chalk and pen applied together with oil paint, pastels, crayon and pencil. In this play of painting and drawing, delusive shapes are hidden behind the network of lines and reveal only upon closer inspection. Oleinikov’s fictive and always autobiographical characters are lonesome fighters in a quest for the meaning of life. Far from the crowds and everyday life, they wonder between the worlds.” (Susan Wang)
Igor Oleinikov – Tiefen in Berlin from Michael F. Huse on Vimeo.