I have an education in design and a post-graduate in urban research at Strelka Institute (Moscow). While being a student me and my friends established a self-organisation 'XI komnat' which was a studio, exhibition and event space from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 I made a residency at NODE center for curatorial studies (Berlin) and in 2022 joined the What Could/Should Curating Do course in Belgrade.
My work path lead from graphic to exhibition design and brand-design for local museums to working as an assistant curator at Shiryaevo Biennial (2018) and later as a curator of Victoria gallery in Samara (2020-present). I define my mission as support for local artists (from different regions of the country) and experimental curatorial approaches.
My interest includes, but is not limited to cultural identity and local geography, (post)digital art, performance and contemporary dance, time- and process-based art, artificial intelligence, post-human, hybrid practices.
For over a decade (2006-2018) I've been working in the sphere of informal education with children, teenagers and students across former USSR and Europe, and was a teacher (2011-2014) and program director at Urban Studio summer school (2015).
Since 2017 I joined the team of VolgaFest - an urban culture festival on the Volga embankment in Samara as an art-director. Currently I am in the process of completion of my first book (supported by garage.text grant) 'Vision hunters: artistic and anomalous experiences on the Volga'.
As an artist I work in various media from performance to installation, from video to artist book. My main artistic focus is a complicated identity and personal history in the context of (trans)national and (trans)local culture and history. With my projects I participated in a number of group shows across Russia, from middle Volga to Ural.