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Petersburg Street University
Founded due to the temporary closure of the European University in Saint Petersburg in 2008, the SU has lived on as an autonomous initiative dealing with issues such as runaway urban development, activist interaction with the police, art and democracy, … Continue reading
Ekaterina Sharova
Curator and journalist, Russia/Norway Ekaterina was born in Arkhangelsk (Russia) and lives in Norway since 2004. MA in History of Art from the University of Oslo, and background in literature theory and aesthetics from University of Tromsø, Pomorskij State University … Continue reading
Ekaterina Samutsevich (Pussy Riot)
Ekaterina Samutsevic had experience at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and a defense enterprise behind her, when she decided to study art. Joining the actionist current in autumn 2011, she was a core co-founder of Pussy Riot. Of the three … Continue reading
SOSka Group
was founded by Mykola Ridnyi, Serhiy Popov and Ganna Kriventsova in 2005, and has pushed the boundaries of curatorial and artistic practice of what is considered acceptable in the Ukrainian context. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SOSka group was found in 2005 by Mykola … Continue reading
Timofey Radya
creates at times small-scale, at times monumental street art works. These urban interventions, which started in his native Ekaterinburg, range from “improvements in the hood” to highly critical works. His motto is “anyone who makes street art is a friend … Continue reading
Viktor Misiano
Viktor Misiano was born in Moscow in 1957. From 1980 till 1990 he was a curator of contemporary art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of the Center … Continue reading
Nikolay Oleynikov
Works: For TO THE SQUARE 2 (Checkpoint Helsinki, 2014): Radio Pravda For RE-ALIGNED ART from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Tromso Kunstforening, Norway): VillmarksLiv (a brief comment on 22 July, media-memory, visual neoconservatism and the oil-welfare-state) For RE-PUBLIC: A Comment on … Continue reading
Pyotr Pavlensky
Works in the Re-Aligned Project: Carcass See also the brief excerpt from an extensive interview (the first video, below) with Ivor Stodolsky, Curator of the Re-Aligned Project, on the streets of St. Petersburg in 2013. Pyotr Pavlensky’s public art actions … Continue reading
Marita Muukkonen
Co-Founding Director of Perpetuum Mobile. Co-Curator of the Re-Aligned Project Marita Muukkonen is an internationally active curator based in Helsinki and Berlin, and a co-founding co-director of Perpetuum Mobile. She has been Chairperson of HIAP – The Helsinki … Continue reading
