On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse

Olga Balema
On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse
01.25.17 – 03.11.17

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Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, mouthful of shadows, 2016. Tulle, latex, steel. 35 x 23 x 21 inches (88.9 x 58.4 x 53.3 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, a thin skin under which a gigantic cauldron of blazing fire was blazing, 2016. Latex, Magic Sculpt. 5 x 9 x 14 inches (12.7 x 22.9 x 35.6 cm)

Olga Balema, Bread of Life, 2016. Tulle, latex, steel. 43 x 22 x 19 inches (109.2 x 55.9 x 48.3 cm)

Olga Balema, Thief in the night, 2016. Tulle, latex, steel. 21 x 24 x 44 inches (53.3 x 61 x 111.8 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, Manifestations of our own wickedness and future idiocy, 2017. Rowlux Paper, steel, photographs. 100 x 204 x 80 inches (254 x 518.2 x 203.2 cm)

Detail: Olga Balema, Manifestations of our own wickedness and future idiocy, 2017. Rowlux Paper, steel, photographs. 100 x 204 x 80 inches (254 x 518.2 x 203.2 cm)

Olga Balema, A thing filled with evil streams, 2016. Wood, latex, Magic Sculpt, cell phone motors, batteries. 31 x 8 x 7 inches (78.7 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, fractures, 2017. Soft PVC, water, paper, steel. 54 x 20 x 2 inches (137.2 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm)

Detail: Olga Balema, fractures, 2017. Soft PVC, water, paper, steel. 54 x 20 x 2 inches (137.2 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, Everyone grows relief, 2016. Steel, fabric, latex, glue, water. 21 x 12 x 16 inches (33 x 53.3 x 40.6 cm)

Olga Balema, become a stranger to yourself, 2017. Soft PVC, water, steel, fabric, latex, photographs, silicone. 55 x 30 x 3 inches (139.7 x 76.2 x 7.6 cm)

Detail: Olga Balema, become a stranger to yourself, 2017. Soft PVC, water, steel, fabric, latex, photographs, silicone. 55 x 30 x 3 inches (139.7 x 76.2 x 7.6 cm)

Olga Balema, drives, 2017. Soft PVC, latex, water, steel, tulle, clips. 54 x 21 x 2 1/2 inches (137.2 x 53.3 x 6.4 cm)

Detail: Olga Balema, drives, 2017. Soft PVC, latex, water, steel, tulle, clips. 54 x 21 x 2 1/2 inches (137.2 x 53.3 x 6.4 cm)

Olga Balema, the look, 2017. Soft PVC, water, latex. 54 x 20 x 2 1/2 inches (137.2 x 50.8 x 6.4 cm)

Detail: Olga Balema, the look, 2017. Soft PVC, water, latex. 54 x 20 x 2 1/2 inches (137.2 x 50.8 x 6.4 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, Notes from the Capital, 2016. Latex, steel, wool fabric, fabric. 37 x 19 x 78 inches (94 x 48.3 x 198.1 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, Notes from the Capital, 2016. Latex, steel, wool fabric, fabric. 37 x 19 x 78 inches (94 x 48.3 x 198.1 cm)

Olga Balema, Moods, 2016. Tulle, latex, steel, Magic Sculpt. 13 x 15 x 39 inches (33 x 38.1 x 99.1 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, Compassion, 2017. Monitor, video loop, vinyl. 62 x 19 x 38 inches (157.5 x 48.3 x 96.5 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Olga Balema, la cienega, 2016. Colored pencil, watercolor on paper. 10 1/2 x 11 inches (26.7 x 27.9 cm)

Installation view: Olga Balema, On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse. 01.25.17 – 03.11.17

Exhibition information

“This story may not always seem artificial, and in spite of me you may recognize in it the call of the blood: the reason is that within my night I shall have happened to strike my forehead at some door, freeing an anguished memory that had been haunting me since the world began. Forgive me for it.”

– From Our Lady Of The Flowers by Jean Genet

Olga Balema (b. 1984, Lviv, Ukraine) lives and works in New York, NY and Berlin, Germany. She holds an MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles and has had residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: Early Man, Swiss Institute, New York, NY (2016); Blasted Health, Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany (2016); One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, Germany (2015); Cannibals, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany (2015); Her Curves, High Art, Paris, France (2015). Recent group exhibitions include: I Am Still Alive – On the Materialities of Life, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2016); Adhesive Products, Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway (2016); Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2015); Surround Audience, Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY (2015); Puddle, pothole, portal, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (2014); Doom: Surface Control, Le Magasin Grenoble, Grenoble, France (2014); Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2014).