Upcoming & Recent

2026

My Song Resounds Over Ruins, book
Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art & Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture (Kazakhstan)

2027

Healing Through Making: Decolonial Aesthesis Against Colonial Wounds

Chapter in "The Weaponisation of History: Visual Manifestation of Power and Resistance in Contemporary Russia and Beyond" (Routledge, 2026)

2027

The Shine of Our Eyes

Residency program organized with Typography Collective in Yerevan, Armenia 

2023–ongoing

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

Education

2024–2026

Lumbung Practice, de Appel & Sandberg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

2014

Moscow State University, MA Journalism

Positions

2024–2025

Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2017–2022

Program Curator

Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia

2019–2022

Lecturer

Krasnodar State Institute of Culture, Krasnodar, Russia

2015–2017

Research Fellow

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2012–2019

Editor and Contributor at aroundart.org

Curating and Research

2026

KICA–2026: Plotting Situatedness

Online education program (non-public) organized by Typography Collective

2024–2025

Repetition Is a Form of Changing

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

2024

Geopoetics: Inheritance

A series of digital performances with Mukaddas Mijit, commissioned by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, available on YouTube

2025

Paths of Memory

A series of performances, commissioned by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, presented at Spore Initiative (Berlin) and at Vleeshal

2025

Tatar* Kiss

Exhibtion at Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2025

Her Labor

A laboratory and publication, part of the Nomadic Program, published in  Ruyò Journal and on  Maqal Collective platform

2024

Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lullabies

Research project by Lucia Kagramanyan, part of the Nomadic Program with a listening session at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and broadcasts  on NTS Radio and Radio Alhara

2024

Safe and Sound

A series of artistic commissions, part of the Nomadic Program, published in NERO Editions Magazine

2024

Her Right

A series of events and film screenings in Middleburg, Tashkent, Almaty, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and online

2023

Өm ә

Exhibition and public programn organized by nGbK and presented at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2023

KICA-2023

Online education program and an exhibtion organized with Typography Collective

2023

Translocal Dialogues on Home, Migration, and Solidarity

Online platform and a series of discussions, with Typography Collective

2021

Unaimed Sessions by League of Tenders

A series of curated online meetings and talks organized by curatorial duo League of Tenders

2021

Training Fantasia

Festival & Exhibition organized by 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

Personal exhibtion at Typography CCA, Krasnodar, Russia

2019

Ilona Marti. Beyond Vision

Performance at 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, and a series of exhibitions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, and Samara, organized by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Teaching, Lectures, Conferences 

2026

Museum as a Space of Memory

Seminar for KICA–2026, organized by Typography Collective 

2026

Empty the Classroom!

Workshop at KHM, Cologne, Germany

2023

Kitchen Respondent

Dutch Art Institute

2023

Workshop of Ideas: After Geographies 

Two-days workshop Stas Shärifulla at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Basel, Switzerland

2023

2022–2023

Decolonial Approach in Curating

Seminar for Practice of Curating, BBE Education, online

2022–2023

KICA-2023

Online education project and resulting exhibition, with Typography Collective

2022

Tracing Colonial Presence

Online workshop at Urvakan Festival, Yerevan, Armenia

2021–2022

Approaching Sustainable Curating

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

2021

Institutional Critic Today, course 

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

2020

Sustainable presence. (Un)sustainable development

Presentation at the Conference 48-hours Novosibirsk at 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 at the Urals Branch of National Center for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2018

Self-organizing Communities

Lecture at Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

2023

Translocal Dialogues on Home, Migration, and Solidarity

Editor of a series of online publications, with Typography Collective

2021

From Self-organization to Self-exploitation and Back

Essay for " Open Systems: Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia, 2000–2020. " Moscow, Garage Museum, 2021. E xcerpt is available in Rus.

2020

How to Break

Essay for Garage Museum website (Rus)

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 for artist catalogue. 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

ongoing

Empires Will Die

Channel at 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

2021, 2017

Member of Advisory Board of Present Continuous program

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