Hi! I’m a curator, independent researcher, and activist.

Currently, I am working on a publication My Song Resounds Over Ruins . It brings together essays, poems, and artistic contributions that reflect on art practice as a decolonial possibility for remembering, witnessing, and reclaiming knowledge, heritage, and land. The publication summarises and further develops the ideas explored in the group exhibition Tatar* Kiss and the two-year International Nomadic Program 2024–2025, Repetition Is a Form of Changing , organized by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (Middelburg, the Netherlands) and curated by Maria Sarycheva and me as League of Tenders.

Across these projects and my practice more broadly, I cultivate a decolonial approach to curating and knowledge production, critically addressing power relations inherited from colonial policies. Due to my positionality, the Russian context is of particular interest, but my projects often trace transimperial entanglements to make imperialism visible as a global project. It is especially precious to me to discover beautiful yet often overlooked connections, meaningful relations, and forms of solidarity that emerge beyond borders.

That's the core of how I work: juxtaposing concepts, contexts, people, and artworks across exhibitions, education, public programs, publications, and experimental formats.

My recent research looks at how oppression works through state memory politics and official narratives — and at how artists dismantle and subvert them. 

I especially appreciate collective ways of working. Since 2018, together with curator and educator Maria Sarycheva, I have co-organized the curatorial duo League of Tenders.

I am also a part of the Typography Collective , which emerged from the Typography Center for Contemporary Art in Krasnodar, Russia, where I worked as a Program Curator from 2017 to 2022. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and our public opposition to it, the Center was declared a “foreign agent,” forcing us to leave Russia. We now organize a residency program in Yerevan, Armenia , and develop educational initiatives online and in-person.

I have worked with Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Framer Framed , Spore Initiative , nGbK , Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien , NERO Editions Magazine , Garage Museum of Contemporary Art , FHNW Basel , among others.