b. 1965
Education:
Summer Academy for Culture&Media&Management, Salzburg, Austria (2001); Cultural Management Department at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, manager of Contemporary Art, MS ; Moscow, Russia (1999/2000); Repin State Academic Institute of Art, Sculpture and Architecture. Department of Theory and History of Arts (external); St Petersburg, Russia (1991/1994); Kaliningrad State University, Department of History; Kaliningrad, Russia (1982-1987).
Institutional practice:
Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Russian Contemporary Art Department (1989/98). Member of the Organizing Committee of the 3rd and 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art “Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg”, one of the compilers of the catalogue (1994, 1996). Member of the selection board. Curator of the conference “What is the Graphic Art?” in the framework of the 4 Biennial of Easel Graphic Art (1996).
Since 1998 - National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad Branch.
Curator of the educational programs and art projects in the field of contemporary art, including:
co-curator of the group exhibition "Contemporary art of Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg", Municipal Art Gallery, Kostroma (1998); “Sardines in oil”, World Ocean Museum, Kaliningrad (1999); Open Social Network Art Project "Art of tortures and executions – art against tortures and executions" (2000-2001); curator of the international project “Phringilla” in the frame of the seminar-plen-air “Inside and Between: Communication and Identification in the Contemporary Art” (2002); International art project “Artist and Arms” (2004-2006); “Contemporary Art in Nature”, Museum of National Park “Curonian Spit”, Kaliningrad region, Russia (2205); Trans-Russian Art Project “9000 km” (2005-2006); art project “Western Russia. Contemporary Art from Kaliningrad” (2006); Regional curator of the international project «Art on Site», NCCA, Goethe-Institut (2009) etc.
Compiler of the project’s catalogues. Since 2002 - the member of editorial board of the international illustrated edition on contemporary art “pH”.
