I curate and write about contemporary art, teach interdisciplinary humanities and consult individuals, groups, think tanks and philanthropic organisations. I am a curator of art and programmes at Pushkin House, London, a lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and a founder of Lecture Performance Archive and Avenir Institute, Athens. 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), the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

My institutional and independent practice encompasses art and intercultural history from the ancient Greek world to contemporary Eurasia, spanning political imaginaries, intellectual history, institutional design, comparative imperialism, critical museology, and the art world ecosystem. My academic and artistic research focuses on transhistorical traditions of performing knowledge, heritage and future conceptualisations.

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 am currently completing PhD in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.

I come from a working-class family with mixed Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Ashkenazi 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.