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EDUCATION

2018-present  Practice-based artistic PhD in Fine Arts, Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE)

2016-2018      Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Guest Student (Class Prof. Hito Steyerl)

2014               MA Art in Context / Berlin University of the Arts (DE)

2009               Bard College Berlin (European College of Liberal Arts) (DE/USA)

2009               Diploma Film / Russian National Film University VGIK, Moscow (RU)

Extensive training in contemporary dance, performance and physical theater

 

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (selected)

2022   Practicing Futures While Grieving, performance program, Klosterruine Berlin (DE)

          Tanzkongress’22 – Sharing Potentials, an event by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in cooperation with Staatstheater Mainz: Hybrid performance/installation ‘Temple of Care / foster shell with stray gods’, Mainz (DE)

          Kabaraoke queer performance art event, Silver Future, Berlin

2021  Lost&Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning Towards Transformative   Politics, One Minute Space, Athens (GR)         

          As an Act of Love: Disabilities and Crip Culture, PremArts, Berlin (DE)

          Art and Resilience, PremArts, Berlin (DE)

2020   Snapshots on Queer Family-Making (solo show), Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Communitism, Athens (GR)

2019  Empowe/AR – art and performance festival curated by Sanni Est, Flutgraben, Berlin (DE)

          Delegated mourning and storytellng, PAF (FR)

2018  Queering Commons, AMOQA / Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Athens (GR)

          Gynaikopaida, performance program on queer kinship, TWIXTlab, Athens (GR)

2017  Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin (DE)

          Learning From Documenta, Polytechneio, Athens (GR)

          Hairy Goddess Misstory, collaborative performance, Lettretage, Berlin (DE)

2016  Athens Biennale 5to6 Omonia, Synapse 2 and 3, Athens (GR)

          Ernst im Ersten, Theater.doc, Moscow (RU)

2015  According to Marty McFly 2015 is the Future – João Cocteau, Berlin (DE)

          Visions-V_Ideas, Performaces – Beton 7, Athens (GR)

          Netting the Work – Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Zentrum für Kultur und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin (DE)

          Excentricités Performance Art Festival – Musée des Beaux Arts, Besançon (FR)

2014  Critical Wounds (Grief and self-injury as a means of protest) – Altes Finanzamt, Berlin (DE)

          Unantastbar! Touch and bodily interaction – collaborative project by artists with and without handicap, Berlin (DE)

2013  Violating Democracy. Political and artistic approaches to state oppression – Aman, Berlin (DE)

           ‘To the friend who didn’t save my life’ / CH – Lange Nacht der Bilder, HB55, Berlin (DE)

           Sheipur –  UdK Berlin (DE)

2009   Cinephilia, Passion and Media – International VGIK Festival, Moscow (RU)

 

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS

2022   ausland - territory for arts and collateral damage, Berlin (DE)

2022   Dis-Tanz-Solo grant

2019-2021 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation scholarship for PhD in Fine Arts

2018   Criss-Cross – artist on artist convergences performance residency, Athens School of Fine Arts, Hydra (GR)

2017   CON_TEXT performance residency, Lettretage, Berlin (DE)

2009   Bard College Berlin (European College of Liberal Arts), scholarship for an artistic research project

2009   Film studies magazine Cinematic Proceedings (RU) – Prize for the best film diploma project

 

CONFERENCES

2022   11. European Feminist Research Conference, Milan (IT)

 

FILMOGRAPHY

2018-present Surrounded by Sunsets – film direction, cinematography

2016   Same Time Tomorrow, Athens Biennale 5to6 Omonia

2016   Khodorkovsky’s New Freedom (BR/WDR – Saxonia Entertainment GmbH), assistant director, producer, cinematographer

2016   Critical Wounds  – film direction, performance

2015   Digital Dissidents (WDR – gebrueder beetz filmproduktion), research and assistant cinematographer

2013   ‘To the friend who didn’t save my life’ / CH

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

2010-present – freelance artist, filmmaker, cinematographer, researcher and cultural events producer

2022  Seminar: Crying Institute, Bauhaus-University Weimar, with prof. Birte Kleine-Benne (DE)

2021  Workshop: Introduction to funeral stripping. Embodied skills of solidarity in grief, One Minute Space, Athens (GR)

2019  Workshop: Delegated mourning and storytellng, PAF (FR)

2019  Festival 4. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin – translation

2018-19 ‘Across the Middle, Past the East. An Unsettled Cabaret’, Sophiensaele Berlin – makeup artist

2018  Festival Russian Spring: Contemporary Theatre From Russia, Berlin – assistant/translation

2016  Khodorkovsky’s New Freedom (BR/WDR – Saxonia Entertainment GmbH) – assistant film director, producer, cinematographer

2015  Digital Dissidents (WDR – gebrueder beetz filmproduktion) – research and assistant cinematographer

2015  Nordwind Festival, Berlin/Hamburg (DE) – translation

2013  Lenin in Vogelsang (Geschichtswerkstatt Europa) – assistant director

2012  7. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Project by Yael Bartana First International Congress of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland – volunteer

2007  International VGIK Festival, Moscow (RU) – curator of film and performance program ‘Cinephilia, Passion and Media’

2007  2. Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art / Group exhibition ‘We Are Your Future’ (USA-RU) – assistant curator

 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

2013-present - Volunteer work at Contact and Advice Center for Refugees and Migrants (KuB e.V.), Berlin

 

PUBLICATIONS

Upcoming:  Queer Death Studies Handbook (eds. Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi), Routledge, 2023

2021     Caring to Keep One’s Impressions Alive, Research Catalogue / Society for Artistic Research

2017     “Hab keine Angst. Und benutze deine Haare”. Interview on Lettretage, 2017.

2014     Critical Wounds (Self-injury as a Protest and Performance of Femininity In Mourning Practices and Its Appropriation In the Performance and Video Art) – Institute for Art in Context, Berlin (DE)

2012     Positions V: Contemporary Artists From Russia. – Gerhard Steidl Verlag, Göttingen. 2012

2011     Haus Lemke, zum Abschied; and Der Einzeller (Absalon in den KW). In: Mise-en-scène – wie Ausstellungen aussehen, Universität der Künste Berlin, 2010.

2010     Directors’ Portraits of Boris Blank, Victor Eisymont, Vladimir Fokin. In: The Encyclopedia of  The Russian Film Directors, Russian Film Institute, Moscow, 2010.

2009     Towards the Distinction Between Avant-garde Film And Video Art: Derek Jarman‘s ‘I-Film’, Contemporary Video Art And Ritual Sensibility –  VGIK, Moscow, 2009.

2008     The Sound of a Cameo (Sound, Image and Persona in Derek Jarman’s Films and Music Videos). In: Mirrors and Labyrinths: A Polylogue. Collection of Theoretical Articles, GITR, Moscow, 2008.

2008     Vertov, Dziga: From the Heritage. Volume 2: Articles and Speeches. – Eisenstein Center for Film Research, Moscow. 2008

2007     Schlegel, Hans-Joachim: Sound Worlds of the Inside: On Andrey Tarkovsky’s Concept of Sound. In: Cinematic Proceedings, Moscow, № 82. 2007

 

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