2024–2025
Curator of Nomadic Program , Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art Middelburg, the Netherlands
Part of Typography Collective
Recent Projects
2024–2025
Repetition is a Form of Changing. Nomadic Program for Vleeshal CCA (Middelburg, the Netherlands) with events in various places around the globe2023–ongoing
Archive of repressions against cultural workers in Russia, non-public
ongoing
Empires will die , personal blog in Telegram
Education
2014
Moscow State University, MA Journalism & Art CriticismPositions
2017–2022
Program Curator at Typography Center for Contemporary Art Krasnodar, Russia2019–2022
Lecturer at Krasnodar State Institute of Culture Krasnodar, Russia2015–2017
Research fellow at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art M oscow, Russia2012–2019
Editor and Contributor at aroundart.orgResidencies, Fellowships, Grants
2023
artasfoundation Summer School Divided Societies Zurich, Switzerland2022
Foundation for Arts Initiatives — Grant New York, USA2021
ArtsLink Assembly Fellow, CEC Artslink New York, USA2020
Pro Helvetia Fast Forward Grant Switzerland2019
Residency Unlimited New York, USACurating and Research
2023
Өmә exhibition and public program nGbK at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany2022–2023
KICA-2023 — Educational Course Online2021
Unaimed Sessions by League of Tenders Online2020
League of Tenders Annual Meeting & Laboratory Anapa region, Krasnodar krai, Russia2019
Curatorial Courses — School for Researchers and Organizers Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia2018
Artur Zmijewski. Realism Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia2017
Between Fatigue: Towards the New Forms of Life Parallel program of 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art Ekaterinburg, Russia2015–2017
Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2015 — Research, conference, series of exhibitions in Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, and Samara Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RussiaTeaching and Lectures
2023
Workshop of Ideas: After Geographies (with Stas Shärifulla) Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Basel, Switzerland2023
Counter/Monuments: (Russian) Colonial Violence / Lecture GAK Bremen, Germany2022–2023
Decolonial approach in curating / Course for Practice of Curating, BBE Education2022
Decolonistion of Russian federation for Russian-speaking NGO workers and volunteers in Germany, organised by BVRE e.V. Eitorf, Germany2021
Institutional critic today / Course for Sound Art department at Higher School of Economics M oscow, Russia2020
City/Context. Contemporary Art Projects and Interaction with a City / Workshop Zheleznogorsk, Russia2018
How to Write about Contemporary Art? Urals Branch of National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, RussiaWriting and Editing
2021
From self-organization to self-exploitation and back — Book Chapter for Open Systems: Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia, 2000–2020 . — Moscow: Garage Museum, 2021 ( excerpt is available in rus )2020
How to Break — Article / garagemca.org2019
Krasnodar — Article for Nemoskva Project ( pdf rus )2018
Alexander Bazhenov. Keyword Search / Yekaterinburg: National Center for Contemporary Art2017
The Gap for Utopia — Article for the Book “ZIP Group. ZIP Workers’ Club Station.” / Moscow: Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art ( pdf rus & eng )2016
Why the Future is Self-Organized / aroundart.orgTalks and Expertise
2024
Kitchen Respondent for DAI students — Dutch Art Institute2023
Creative Protect — Research, Series of Meetings and Hackathon organized by Goethe-Institut2021
CETKA Project Meeting Yerevan, Armenia2021, 2017
Member of Advisory Board of Present Continuous program, V-A-C Foundation (Moscow) and M HKA — Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (Belgium)2020
Sustainable presence. (Un)sustainable development / Conference at 48-hours Novosibirsk Festival CK19, Novosibirsk, Russia2019
Elena Ishchenko in conversation with Amanda Parmer : the talk on self-organized communities Residency Unlimited, New Yor k, USA