Ilya Orlov is an artist, theorist, and researcher at Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki. His works have been shown as part of Manifesta 10 (2014), commissioned by the international biennial. In 2018, Orlov was shortlisted for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale (in collaboration with Joanna Warsza, Minna Henriksson, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Ahmed Al-Nawas, Gianni Talamini). In 2023, Orlov presented his first large solo show in Helsinki at the entire space of Forum Box gallery. Orlov is the founder and co-editor of the independent international anti-war art journal Shy Plumber published in Finland (ISSN 2736-8203). Orlov’s artistic and academic work has been supported by Kunstverein zu Rostock, Oskar Öflund Foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Helsinki International Artistic Programme (HIAP), Uniarts Helsinki, and Art Foundation Merita.
 

​Exhibitions (Selected)

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Luck - Finland-New Zealand doctoral art researchers group show. Tekniikan museo, Helsinki, Finland. April 2025.

Kunstverein zu Rostock Stipendiatenausstellung. Schleswig-Holstein Haus Rostock, Germany. February 2025.

​Honest Deception: Tedi Holm (in collaboration with Steffen Dürre). Kunstverein zu Rostock, Schleswig-Holstein Haus Rostock, Germany. 2024.

Eight Thousand Layers of Moments. Gus Fisher gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. 2024.
Claws and Connections – All the World’s Senses - KuvA doctoral researchers' group show. Kuva/Tila. Helsinki, Finland. 2024.

God out of a Washing Machine / Jumala pesukoneesta. Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland. 2023.
Quantum Critic 2021. Myymälä2 pop up gallery, Helsinki, Finland. 2021.
Functional Art. HIAP Open Studios Week, Helsinki, Finland. 2020. 
Shy Plumber Journal Exhibition # 1. Alkovi gallery, Helsinki, Finland. 2020.
Conflict of the Faculties. Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland. 2019. 
A Piece of Art. Love&Money Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. 2019
Monument to a Scientific Error. Kallio Library. Helsinki, Finland. 2018.
The Very Last Futurist Exhibition. Merz Sammonkatu. Tampere, Finland. 2018. 
The Story of How Nicholas II and Magician Papus Secretly Conducted a Spiritist Seance Aimed to Prevent the Revolution, and Failed. Hiekan Taidemuseo. Tampere, Finland. 2017. (curated by Ilya Orlov)
Rab-Rab Journal Committee show at Tüyap Ütopya. Istanbul, Turkey. 2017.
Museum of the Museum. CheckPoint Helsinki. Helsinki, Finland. 2017.
Red Rijeka Assembly. SIZ Gallery in Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia. 2017.
1917: Weighed, Up-Measured, Divided. Alkovi gallery, Helsinki, Finland. 2017.
Finnish Landscape. Seurasaari Open-Air Museum. Helsinki, Finland. 2016
A Revolutionary Museum After Ideology. MANIFESTA 10. 2014.

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Education

- The Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki. Doctoral researcher. 2015 – present.

- St. Petersburg State University, The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences / Bard College, New York. Master of Arts and Humanities. 2013.
- St. Petersburg State University, The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences / Bard College, New York. Bachelor of Arts and Humanities. 2007.

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