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

Currently, I am working on a publication My Song Resounds Over Ruins (working title). 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 , organised 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 in general, I cultivate a decolonial approach to curating and knowledge production, critically addressing power relations inherited from colonial policies. While the Russian context is of particular interest, my projects often trace transimperial entanglements in order to render imperialism visible as a global project. It is especially precious to me to discover, on the other side of these transimperial entanglements, beautiful yet often overlooked connections, meaningful relations, and forms of solidarity that emerge beyond borders.

These elements form the core of my approach, which I pursue by juxtaposing concepts, contexts, people, and artworks, inviting them into dialogue. I apply this methodology across different formats, from exhibitions and educational practices to public programs and publications.

My recent research examines how oppression operates through state memory politics and officially fabricated narratives, as well as the strategies artists employ to dismantle and subvert them .

I especially appreciate collective ways of working. Since 2018, together with curator and educator Maria Sarycheva, I have co-organised 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 organise 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.