BIOGRAPHY
Olga Krupenkova was born in 1969 in Minsk. In 1988 she graduated from the Minsk Art School. 1995 - graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, graphics department. After graduating from the Academy, she works in the field of easel and book graphics. Member of the Union of Artists of Belarus. In 2000, she was invited by the Department of Arts of the University of Maryland (USA) as a representative of Belarus to participate in the exhibition WOMEN OF THE WORLD, curated by Claudia DeMonte, the exposition of which took place in New York, and then traveled around the world. 2011-2015 - Senior Lecturer at the Department of Design at the Belarusian State University. Since 2015 - Senior Lecturer at the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Faculty of Architecture
Olga Krupenkova is a lot and fruitfully engaged in book graphics. Collaborates with many publishing houses, more than fifty children's books with her illustrations have been published (co-authored with Y. Krupenkov) Regular participant of the annual exhibitions "Artist and the Book", international biennial of book illustration, diploma winner of the republican competition "Art of the Book" (Belarus, 2002, 2007)
EXHIBITIONS
Personal exhibitions: 2005 - "Living Fairy Tale", exhibition of illustrations, Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts (Minsk, Belarus). 2007 - "The Magic World", exhibition of lithographs, "M-Gallery" of the Institute. Goethe (Minsk, Belarus). 2008 - Free Program, Tradition Gallery (Svetlogorsk, Belarus). 2012 - "Romance of Realism", Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minsk, Belarus). 2014 - "Duet", Hevesi Sándor Általános Iskola (Hevis gallery) (Nagykanizsa, Hungary). 2015 - "Vandroўka-2", Vitebsk Regional Art Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus). 2017 - international exhibition of ex-libris "Try kalykhanki" (together with T. Siplevich, Belarus and A. Tikhonova-Yordanova, Bulgaria), gallery "University of Culture" (Minsk, Belarus)
2018 - international exhibition "Coordinates ex-libris "(together with T. Siplevich, Belarus and A. Tikhonova-Yordanova, Bulgaria) (Warsaw, Poland). 2019 - anniversary exhibition "Tandem" (together with Yuri Krupenkov), Museum of the History of the City of Minsk (Minsk, Belarus); international exhibition "Female Fortune ”(together with T. Siplevich, Belarus and A. Tikhonova-Yordanova, Bulgaria), Warsaw Ex-libris Gallery (Warsaw, Poland).
Ex-libris takes a special place in the artist's work. Participant of many international exhibition-competitions of ex-libris, as well as Ex-libris Congresses: V All-Russian Congress of Ex-libris and Printed Graphics, RF, Vologda, 2013, 2015; DEG Congress (Congress of the German Society of Exlibrisists), Germany, 2017, 2018, 2019; Congress FISAE (Congress of the International Federation of Exlibris Societies), RF (2016), Czech Republic (2018). Works are kept in the library collection The University of Rijeka (Croatia), the Museum of Ex-libris (Sant Niklaas, Belgium), the University Library in Gliwice (Poland), the collection of the Museum of Ex-libris in Malbork (Poland), the Public Museum of Graphics (Asino, Russia), the Museum of Ex-libris and miniature books (Moscow, RF). In 2013, the 17th volume of "Contemporary International Ex - Olga's artworks are on display in the Museum of Printed Graphics (Tokyo, Japan); in the Museum of Modern Art (Minsk, Belarus); in the Lithographic Academy (Tadahom, Sweden); are in the collection of the University of Maryland (USA), the Hevis gallery (Nagykanizsa, Hungary); at the Vitebsk Regional Art Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus); acquired by galleries and private collectors in the Netherlands, Russia, Belarus, Italy, USA.
