Scholarly articles
P. Otdelnov (2024). A Critical Juncture. In L. Piters-Hofmann (Ed.), What Is to Be Done?. Logos Verlag. pp. 165–172. PDF
A. Arutyunyan; A. Egorov (2024). Personal Traces in the Soviet Industrial Aftermath. Pavel Otdelnov's Promzona and Haim Sokol's Paper Memory Exhibitions in Moscow. In F. Guerin & M. Szcześniak (Eds.), Visual culture of post-industrial Europe. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 243–266. PDF
R. Wigh Abrahamsson; A. Brutemark; Joosse, S. et al. (2023). IMAGINATIVE POWER: The role of art in environmental communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 26 p.
P. Otdelnov (2023). Making of an Art Project: Ringing Trace. In N. Mörner (Ed.), Ecological Concerns in Transition. Södertörn University. pp. 59–64. PDF
S. Polyakova (2021). Русское Нигде как пространство семиозиса: к истории одной выставки [Russian Nowhere as a Space of Semiosis]. Human Being: Image and Essence. INION RAN. Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, Vol. 1(49), pp. 146–164.
L. Zaks (2021). Эстетическое наших дней: новая феноменология [The Aesthetic of Our Times: A New Phenomenology]. Koinon Vol. 2(3), pp. 44–66.
E. Sarkisian Åkerman (2021). Det kollektiva och det privata minnet: Sokol, Otdelnov och Muromtseva, Konst i ruinerna av en utopi: en analys av nominerade bidrag till Kandinsky- och Innovatsijapriserna 2019/2020 (in Swedish). Uppsala University. pp. 29–35/54.
I. Sokolov (2021). The Russian Tlen. Or aesthetics of the bumblefuck. Young Anthropology – Undergraduate Student Journal of Anthropology. 3. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga: pp. 27–31.
Media coverage
And the Last Shall Be First: Otdelnov’s Solo Exhibition in Moscow. Nadezhda Lisovskaya, Art Focus Now, 10 December
Cycles of Revival, Continuity and Repetition. Il Gurn, Art Focus Now, 19 February 2025
Exiled Russian artist reflects on the impact of war on his Hometown in Peckham show, Sophia Kishkovsky, The Art Newspaper. 13 June 2024. PDF
From Soviet Past to Russia's Present: Artist Otdelnov Faces Down His Native City's Ghosts in New Exhibition. The Moscow Times. 24 June 2024. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov’s Hometown. Ilya Gurn, London Cult. 18 June 2024. PDF
Existential Cold, Arseny Petrov. Arterritory. 7 March 2023. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov: Acting Out, Marcus Verhagen, Art Monthly, № 46. pp.28—29. December—January 2022-2023. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov shows a portrait of today’s Russia in London, Kate Howe. 'Art Focus Now', 19 October, 2022. PDF
Fact or Fiction? Russian artists explore their family histories. Sergey Guskov, 'Art Focus Now', 24, August, 2022. PDF
Bojkotta absolut inte den här ryska konsten Pavel Otdelnovs Promzona är kolossalt inspirerande och lättillgängligt, (Swedish), Maria Zennström, 'Aftonbladet', 27 April, 2022
Tiden har stannat i den post-sovjetiska tidsbubblan, (Swedish), Göran Sterner, 'Uppsala Nya Tydning', 18 February, 2022. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov. Ringing Trace, Sergey Guskov, 'ARTFORUM', September 2021. PDF
Calling for Action, Ekaterina Wagner, 'Art Focus Now', 14 issue, December, 2020
In the Footsteps of Ghosts, Geraint Rhys Whittaker, 'Wales Arts Review', 23 February 2020. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov: Future Ruins, Kate de Pury, 'Art Focus Now', 14th issue, January 2020. PDF
See Death and Life in Dzerzhinsk, Aaron James Wedland, 'The Moscow Times', 18 February, 2019. PDF
Artist probes Russia's toxic legacy through family history, Kate de Pury, Associated Press Agency, 20 February 2019. PDF
Interviews
LandEscape meets Pavel Otdelnov. Interview. LandEscape. Contemporary Art Review. 2024. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov on his exhibition Acting Out. 'Arterritory'. 03 November, 2022
Pavel Otdelnov: ”Efter kriget måste vi starta om från noll”, (Swedish), Matilda Källén, 'Dagens Nyheter', 4 April, 2022. PDF
The Ringing Trace: capturing the invisible legacy of a Soviet nuclear catastrophe, Masha Borodacheva, 'The Calvert Journal', 18 February 2022. PDF
Contemporary Artist Pavel Otdelnov, Santanu Borah, 'Asian Curator', 15 February 2020. PDF
Pavel Otdelnov, poète du nulle part (French), Rusina Shikhatova, Le courrier de Russie, №311, September — October 2016. PDF
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