Education

2023–present Heritage Science, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
1988–1992 Art History, Moscow State University, Russia

Awards

2021 Recipient of The Innovation Prize, Russia—Curator of the Year
2017 Shortlist Nominee of The Innovation Prize, Russia—Project of the Year
2016 Recipient of The Innovation Prize, Russia—Theory, Art Criticism, Art History
2015 Recipient of The Art Newspaper Russia Award—Project of the Year
2014 Shortlist Nominee of The Innovation Prize, Russia—Theory, Art Criticism, Art History
2014 Shortlist Nominee of The Kandinsky Prize, Russia—Scientific Work. History and Theory of Contemporary Art
2010 Shortlist Nominee of The Innovation Prize, Russia — Curator of the Year    

Work Experience

2025–present CIFRA Platform for Media Art. Head of CIFRA Artistic Vision Council.
2023–2025 CIFRA Platform for Media Art. Chief Art Curator
2022–present Mapping Diaspora. Scientific guidance
2000–present MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture. Founder and Director
2016–2022 The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Head of the Department of Cinema and Media Art, Chief Curator of the Pushkin Museum XXI direction, Curator of the Collection of Cinema and Media Art
2013–2015 Museum Exhibition Complex Manege, Moscow. Deputy Director for Innovations in Contemporary Art
2012–2015 Museum of Screen Culture—Manege / MediaArtLab, Moscow. Founder and Director
2000–2015 Moscow International Film Festival. Founder and Curator of the Media Forum Program
1993–1999 Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. Curator of the NewMediaArtLab Program

EXPERT COUNCILS / JURIES

2024 Asian Film Festival Barcelona (panorama section), Spain
2024 LOOP CIFRA Award, Spain
2023 LOOP CIFRA Award, Spain
2009–2022 The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, Russia
2019 The Kandinsky Prize, Russia
2018 The Innovation Prize, Russia
2013 Ars Electronica, Austria
2009 International Project TRANSITLAND
2000 Art Vifu, Great Britain
1999 Electronic Publishing program, Soros Foundation
1998–2000 Art on the Net International Festival, Japan

Professional Organizations

2024–now International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT)
1997–now Association of Art Critics of the CIS (AIS/AICA)

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE, SELECTION

2024 Body Keeps the Score, CIFRA Platform for Media Art, online
2024 Mnemohistory. From AI Realism to AI Surrealism, CIFRA Platform for Media Art, online
2023 Deconstruction of Myth #2, CIFRA Platform for Media Art, online
2023 Deconstruction of Myth #1, CIFRA Platform for Media Art, online
2020 100 WAYS TO LIVE A MINUTE, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, online
2021 BILL VIOLA. THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2019 THERE IS A BEGINNING IN THE END. THE SECRET TINTORETTO FRATERNITY, Chiesa di San Fantin, Venice
2018 FABRIZIO PLESSI. THE SOUL OF STONE, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2017 MAN AS BIRD. IMAGES OF JOURNEYS COLLATERAL EVENT OF THE 57TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION—LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, Venice
2016–2017 HOUSE OF IMPRESSIONS. WANDERING WITH A TROUBADOUR, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2016 HOUSE OF IMPRESSIONS. CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ART, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2014 GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE INSTALLATION BY PETER GREENAWAY AND SASKIA BODDEKKE, Museum Exhibition Complex Manege, Moscow
2013 EXPANDED CINEMA—III. MOCKUMENTARY: REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2012 EXPANDED CINEMA—II. THE IMMERSION: TOWARDS HAPTIC CINEMA, the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2011 EXPANDED CINEMA—I, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2011 EXPANDED CINEMA—I, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2010 GARY HILL: VIEWER, GMG Gallery, Moscow

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, FESTIVALS SELECTION

2025 co-presenter, Preserving, Providing, Progressing: Access the Excess, 5th The Summit on New Media Art Archiving, ISEA, Seoul
2024 co-curator, Sleepless Art Night Venezia & CIFRA, screening program of video art, Auditorium Santa Margarita, Venice
2023 curator, Floating Cinema Festival, screening program “Echoes of the Past in Myths of the Present”, Venice
2023 co-presenter, L.A.S.E.R. Talks: On Russia’s Alternative Media Art with Artists and Curators of the Russian Scene, online
2018 curator, XLIX International Research “Vipper Conference” “Classics and Contemporaneity. Reflections,” the first installment of the traditional conference at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts focusing on the topic of transhistorical approach, Moscow
2009 curator, Art of the New Technologies and Museums conference in the frames of the Science Art Fest, Moscow
2005 curator, Moving Images Festival, a multimedia project featuring an exhibition of video and media art, lectures, video screenings and roundtable discussions, Anadyr
2004 curator, Cactus Media Art Multimedia Festival, a unique festival presenting digital art for a wide audience above the Arctic Circle, Norilsk
2001 curator, Split Screen, an international symposium with more than 200 participants, Nizhny Novgorod
2000–2015 curator, Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival, an annual program at the intersection of video art and cinema, Moscow
2000, 2011–2013 curator, Pro&Contra, the first cross-discipline international symposium in Russia, considering the problems of combining contemporary innovative culture and new technologies, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk
1999–2000 curator, Trash-Art, the first international festival in Russia dedicated to net art, Moscow
1997–2000 curator, Da-Da-Net, the first festival in Russia dedicated to the Russian art resources, Moscow
1994 co-curator, NewMediaLogia, the first international symposium in Russia dedicated to the new media art, Moscow

Publications

2019 academic editor, contributor, conference text collection XLIX International Research “Vipper conference” “Classics and Contemporaneity. Reflections”, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2018 compiler, contributor, research catalog Man as Bird. Images of Journeys, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2015 compiler, contributor, research catalog Projections of the Avant-Garde, Artguide Editions, Moscow
2013 compiler, contributor, The Mythology of Media. Experience of the Historical Description of the Artist’s Biography. Alexei Isaev (1960–2006), New Literary Observer, Moscow
2013 compiler, contributor, research catalog Expanded Cinema—III. Mockumentary: Reality is Not Enough, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2012 compiler, contributor, research catalog Expanded Cinema — II. The Immersion: Towards Haptic Cinema, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2011 compiler, contributor, research catalog Expanded Cinema—I, MediaArtLab— Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2010 compiler, contributor, anthology TRANSITLAND: Video art from Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989–2009, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2002 compiler, contributor, Anthology of Russian Video Art, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2001 compiler, contributor, collection of theoretical articles, essays and analytical reviews Look From The East, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2000–2015 compiler, editor, contributor, catalogs of Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
2000, 2011–2013 compiler, editor, contributor, collection of theoretical articles, essays and analytical reviews Pro&Contra, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
1999–2000 compiler, editor, contributor, catalogs Data Trash, MediaArtLab—Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
1994 compiler, contributor, collection of theoretical articles, essays and analytical reviews NewMediaLogia / NewMediaTopia, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2018–2019 author of an inter-faculty course Video Art, Russian Institute of Theater Arts—GITIS, Moscow
2018 guest lecturer, Avant-Garde LAB Curator School, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow
2016 author of a lecture course Art and the History of the Moving Image: XX–XXI, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
2016 author of a lecture course Media Art: from Virtual to Social Practices, RMA Business School, Moscow
2016 guest lecturer, MA Advanced Urban Design, Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, National Research University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2013–2014 founder and head of an Open School Manege / MediaArtLab, Moscow
2008 author of an annual lecture course At the Intersection. The Birth of New Meanings, BBDO, Moscow
2007 author of a lecture course Media Culture / Contemporary Art in the frames of “Free Workshops” school, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2001–2003 author of a monthly video screening program with introductory lectures for students of multimedia, Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg
2001 author of a special course Media Culture, built on the developments and methodological research of MediaArtLab, Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow
2000 author of a traveling educational program NonStopMedia, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Yoshkar-Ola, Kirov, Izhevsk
1999 author of a program History of Media Art, Higher School of Directors and Screenwriters of Union of Cinematographers of Russia, Moscow

OTHER PROJECTS SELECTION

Museum Design

2006 digital display, The Sakhalin Regional Museum of Local Lore, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
2005 permanent interactive multimedia display Starting Point, the Museum Center Chukotka Heritage, Anadyr
2005 interactive multimedia display, Solovki State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, Solovki
2003 multimedia display and interactive guide, the Museum of Private Collections, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Media

2018–2022 author and host, radio series Pushkin Museum XXI, Radio Culture, Russia 2021 author and host, podcast Bill Viola Passions, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, various platforms
1993–1996 author and editor, TV series Book. Tradition. Experiment, RTR channel, Russia