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

What Is to Be Done? Art Practice, Theory, and Promotion in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia, the article A Critical Juncture by Pavel Otdelnov. Berlin: Logos Verlag. pp. 165–172. 2024. ISBN 978-3-8325-5863-5. PDF

Personal Traces in the Soviet Industrial Aftermath. Pavel Otdelnov's Promzona and Haim Sokol's Paper Memory Exhibitions in Moscow. Anna Arutyunyan, Andrey Egorov. Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: 243–266. 2024. ISBN 978-90-4856-009-7. PDF

LandEscape meets Pavel Otdelnov. Interview. LandEscape. Contemporary Art Review. 2024. PDF

Making of an Art Project: Ringing Trace. Pavel Otdelnov. Ecological Concerns in Transition: A Comparative Study on Responses to Waste and Environmental Destruction in the Region 2022/2023. Stockholm: Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES). pp. 59–64. 2023. ISBN 978-91-85139-14-9. PDF

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

Pavel Otdelnov on his exhibition Acting Out. 'Arterritory'. 03 November, 2022

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: ”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

Pavel Otdelnov Building of the Former Dormitory of Laboratory B, Sergey Guskov, 'ARTFORUM', September 2021. PDF

Calling for Action, Ekaterina Wagner, 'Art Focus Now', 14 issue, December, 2020

Contemporary Artist Pavel Otdelnov, Santanu Borah, 'Asian Curator', 15 February 2020. PDF

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

Pavel Otdelnov, poète du nulle part (French), Rusina Shikhatova, Le courrier de Russie, №311, September — October 2016. PDF

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