Elena Ishchenko

2024–2025

Curator of Nomadic Program Repetition is a Form of Changing
Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middleburg, Netherlands

Recent Projects

2024

Her Labor , a laboratory and a publication
Part of the Nomadic Program, to be published at Ruyò Journal

2024

Safe and Sound, a series of artistic contributions
Part of the Nomadic Program, published in the NERO Editions Magazine

2024

Her Right, a series of screenings and events
Part of the Nomadic Program, v arious venues in Middleburg, Tashkent, Almaty, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and online

2024

Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lullabies , research sonic project by Lucia Kagramanyan
Part of the Nomadic Program, performed at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and broadcasted online on NTS Radio and Radio Alhara

2023–ongoing

Archive of repressions against cultural workers in Russia, non-public

Education

2014

Moscow State University, MA Journalism & Art Criticism

Positions

2017–2022

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

2019–2022

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

2023

Өmә exhibition and public program

nGbK Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2022–2023

KICA-2023, educational program

Online, with Typography Collective

2022

Translocal Dialogues on Home, Migration, and Solidarity, online platform and a s eries of discussions

Online, with Typography Collective

2021

Unaimed Sessions by League of Tenders, series of curated meetings and talks

Online, as curatorial duo League of Tenders

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 and Lectures

2023

Workshop of Ideas: After Geographies (with Stas Shärifulla)

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Basel, Switzerland

2023

Counter/Monuments: (Russian) Colonial Violence , lecture

GAK Bremen, Germany

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

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

Writing and Editing

2024

Memory Politics in Russia: Why Battles Over Remembering the Past Are Struggles For the Future

Publication, BerlinerGazette.de

2023

Translocal Dialogues on Home, Migration, and Solidarity , editor

Online, with Typography Collective

2021

From Self-organization to Self-exploitation and Back , essay for Open Systems: Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia, 2000–202 0

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

2016

Why the Future is Self-Organized

aroundart.org

ongoing

Empires Will Die , personal blog

Telegram (in Russian)

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

Talks and Expertise

2024

Kitchen Respondent

Dutch Art Institute, Netherlands

2021, 2017

Member of Advisory Board of Present Continuous program

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

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