I curate and teach contemporary art, global histories, and interdisciplinary humanities; develop cultural programming with a transdisciplinary approach; write and speak about art, culture and history of ideas; and advise on collecting, cultural policies, and political communications. I am a guest curator at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and a lecturer at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and the Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art. I was a curator of art and programmes at Pushkin House, London; guest curator at Helsinki Art Museum and Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum; curator-in-residence at U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin, and Atelier Fidalga in São Paulo; a founding curator of Penthouse Art Residency in Brussels, Kunsthalle Vysotka in Moscow and Fortune Teller gallery in Athens; and a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. I am a founder of Lecture Performance Archive and Avenir Institute.

At large, my practice encompasses art and intellectual history from the ancient Greek world to contemporary cosmopolitanism, spanning institutional critique, political imaginaries, critical museology, and the art world ecosystem. My academic, curatorial, and artistic research focuses on transhistorical traditions of performing knowledge, heritage, and future conceptualisations in epic, rhetoric, and lecture performance.

I earned a BA in Politics and an MA in European Studies and pursued a PhD in Politics at HSE Moscow; I hold a CertHE in International Security from Stanford University, a DipHE in Fine Art from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and an MRes in Art and Design from the KdG University of Applied Sciences and Arts. I defended my PhD in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.

I come from a working-class family with mixed Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian heritage from the borderland provincial town of Bryansk. I have lived in Moscow, Brussels, Berlin, São Paulo, Cambridge, London, and Athens. I speak English, Russian, and French and read ancient Greek.

  • I curate multimedia projects, programmes, performances, workshops, and art exhibitions.

    I have curated projects at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, and galleries in Brussels, Tallinn, Athens and London. I have organised international exhibitions and public programmes in the context of the Venice Biennales of Art and Architecture (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 & 2022), São Paulo Biennale (2016), Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (2020), Ural Industrial Biennial (2017), Art Basel Miami, London Art Fair, and Cosmoscow.

    I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

  • I teach art and politics, cultural history, and critical humanities. I also develop custom-made educational programmes and moderate talks. I was a co-convenor of PPV: Politics and Aesthetics in the Global East at the University College London. I have lectured at the Universities of Cambridge, Cologne, Bremen, Edinburgh, Namur, Leuven, St Andrews, Roskilde, Tallinn; FAAP (São Paulo), The New School (New York), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht). I have contributed to dozens of global conferences, symposia, fairs, summits, and other events, including the Creative Time, St Gallen Symposium, World Business Summit, PRIMER San Francisco, and the Association of Professional Futurists.

    I am a member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

  • I advise on art collecting, creative projects, politics and society, and ideation. As a guide and mentor, I accompany individuals and groups to various events, including art fairs, biennials, festivals, and exhibitions. I lead travelling seminars and discursive walkthroughs at art museums, galleries, cultural memory sites, fairs, festivals, biennales, etc.

    I have been consulting on cultural policies and political communications organisations such as the EU-Russia Centre, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the European Geopolitical Forum, the Eurasia Competitiveness Institute, Strategy Partners, the Institute of Contemporary Development, DAI, among many others.

  • I write about art, politics, and culture at large. My texts have been published in numerous leading venues, including MoMA, Doppiozero International, Ocula, Obieg, Conceptual Fine Arts, Italian Art Guide, Moscow Art Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, A*Desk, the Brussels Times, and exhibition catalogues, books, and volumes. My opinion pieces and peer-reviewed essays have appeared in Law and Politics, Insurance Business, Euractiv, Radio Free Europe, and think tanks’ publications in Brussels, Washington, Moscow, etc. My latest book contribution was published in Art, Heritage, and Performative Politics in 2025. My work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.