Recent Projects

2025

Geopoetics: Inheritance , a  series of digital performances with Mukaddas Mijit 
Commissioned by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, available on YouTube

2025

Tatar* Kiss a group exhibition

Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2025

Paths of Memory , a series of performances 

Commissioned by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Presented at Spore Initiative (Berlin) and at Vleeshal

2023–ongoing

Archive of Repressions Against Cultural Workers in Russia, non-public

Education

2014

Moscow State University, MA Journalism & Art Criticism

Positions

2024–2025

Curator of the International Nomadic Program 2024–2025, Vleeshal Center for Contemporart Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2019–2022

Program Curator at Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia

2017–2022

Lecturer at Krasnodar State Institute of Culture,  Krasnodar, Russia

2015–2017

Research fellow at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Mo scow, Russia

2012–2019

Editor and Contributor at aroundart.org

Curating and Research

2024–2025

Repetition Is a Form of Changing

International Nomadic Program 2024-2025, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2024

Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lullabies, research sonic project by Lucia Kagramanyan

Part of the Nomadic Program, performed at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and broadcast on NTS Radio and Radio Alhara

2024

Her Labor , a laboratory and publication

Part of the Nomadic Program, published at Ruyò Journal and Maqal Collective

2024

Safe and Sound , a series of artistic commissions

Part of the Nomadic Program, published in NERO Editions Magazine

2023

Her Right , a series of screenings and events

Various venues in Middleburg, Tashkent, Almaty, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and online

2023

Өmә exhibition and public program

nGbK Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2022–2023

KICA-2023,  educational program

Online, with Typography Collective

2021

Training Fantasia  — Festival & Exhibition

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2021

Radical Reveries,  research project by Kafe-Morozhenoe group for the exhibition Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene

Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia

2020

League of Tenders Annual Meeting & Laboratory

Anapa region, Krasnodar krai, Russia

2020

Elena Kolesnikova. Voskhod Cooperative

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2019

Ilona Marti. Beyond Vision

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2019

Curatorial Courses — School for Researchers and Organizers

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2019

League of Tenders Annual Meeting & Laboratory

Various venues, Krasnodar, Russia

2019

Elena Kolesnikova. Odnushka

Novo-Molokovo, Moscow, Russia

2018

Artur Zmijewski. Realism

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2018

SUPERCOVER, exhibition and festival

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2018

Working Group — Identity Department

Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2018

ZIP Group. Crystal Tiger

Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

2017

Between Fatigue: Towards the New Forms of Life

Parallel program of 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2015–2017

Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2015 , research  project, conference, series of exhibitions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, and Samara

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Teaching, Lectures, Conferences 

2025

Counter-Memory: Soviet Repressions against Indigenous Peoples and Its Reflection in Contemporary Art

Presentation at ANAMNESIA Conference , Paris, France

2024

Kitchen Respondent

Dutch Art Institute

2023

Workshop of Ideas: After Geographies (with Stas Shärifulla) 

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Basel, Switzerland

2023

2023

2022–2023

Decolonial approach in curating,  course

Practice of Curating, BBE Education, online (Moscow, Russia)  

2022–2023

KICA-2023 , educational program

Online, with Typography Collective

2022

Tracing colonial presence, workshop

Online, Urvakan Festival, Yerevan, Armenia

2021–2022

Approaching sustainable curating, course

Online and in-person in Moscow School of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2021

Institutional critic today, course 

Sound Art department at Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

2020

Sustainable presence. (Un)sustainable development,  conference, 48-hours Novosibirsk Festival

CK19, Novosibirsk, Russia

2019

Elena Ishchenko in conversation with Amanda Parmer

Residency Unlimited, New York, USA

2018

How to Write about Contemporary Art?, lecture and workshop

Urals Branch of National Center for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2018

Self-organising Communities, lecture

Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

2021

From Self-organization to Self-exploitation and Back , essay for Open Systems: Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia, 2000–202

Moscow: Garage Museum, 2021 ( excerpt is available in rus )

2020

How to Break , essay

Online, Garage Museum

2019

' Odnushka' as a Museum , essay for Novo‑Molokovo. Podmoskovye. The artists' residence at 'Odnushka' and a sculptural project in public space

Moscow: Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow, 2020 ( pdf eng

2018

Alexander Bazhenov. Keyword Search , essay

Yekaterinburg: National Center for Contemporary Art, 2018 

2017

The Gap for Utopia, essay for the catalogue ZIP Group. ZIP Workers’ Club Station

Moscow: Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art

2017

Garage Triennial: does Moscow’s new contemporary art showpiece represent the “real” Russia? 

Calvert Journal

ongoing

Residencies, Fellowships, Grants

2023

artasfoundation Summer School Divided Societies, Zurich, Switzerland 

2022

Foundation for Arts Initiatives, grant 

2022

Goethe-Istitut Stabilisation Fund, grant

2022

ArtsLink Assembly  Fellow , CEC Artslink, New York, USA

2020

Pro Helvetia Fast Forward Grant

2019

Residency Unlimited, New York, USA

2021, 2017

Member of Advisory Board of Present Continuous program

V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia, and M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium