Olga Sviblova
Olga Sviblova is the Founding Director of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, formerly known as the Moscow House of Photography. Sviblova has curated international exhibitions since 1988, when she organized the first "Festival of Soviet Underground Art" in Finland. Since then she has organized numerous contemporary art shows both in Moscow and abroad.
She was organizer and Art-Director of the Moscow International Photography Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography" in 1999, and the International Month of Photography in Moscow, the Photobiennale in 1996 and its jubilee 10th edition in 2014. She was curator of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2009.
During her career, Sviblova has written and directed a number of documentaries, including "The Black Square" about Russian avant-garde art from 1953 to 1988, which won the Paris Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and the Gold Plate at the Chicago Documentary Film Festival, among many other accolades.