EDUCATION
2018-present Practice-based artistic PhD in Fine Arts, Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE)
2016-2018 Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Guest Student (Class Prof. Hito Steyerl)
2014 MA Art in Context / Berlin University of the Arts (DE)
2009 Bard College Berlin (European College of Liberal Arts) (DE/USA)
2009 Diploma Film / Russian National Film University VGIK, Moscow (RU)
Extensive training in contemporary dance, performance and physical theater
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (selected)
2022 Practicing Futures While Grieving, performance program, Klosterruine Berlin (DE)
Kabaraoke queer performance art event, Silver Future, Berlin
2021 Lost&Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning Towards Transformative Politics, One Minute Space, Athens (GR)
As an Act of Love: Disabilities and Crip Culture, PremArts, Berlin (DE)
Art and Resilience, PremArts, Berlin (DE)
2020 Snapshots on Queer Family-Making (solo show), Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Communitism, Athens (GR)
2019 Empowe/AR – art and performance festival curated by Sanni Est, Flutgraben, Berlin (DE)
Delegated mourning and storytellng, PAF (FR)
2018 Queering Commons, AMOQA / Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Athens (GR)
Gynaikopaida, performance program on queer kinship, TWIXTlab, Athens (GR)
2017 Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin (DE)
Learning From Documenta, Polytechneio, Athens (GR)
Hairy Goddess Misstory, collaborative performance, Lettretage, Berlin (DE)
2016 Athens Biennale 5to6 Omonia, Synapse 2 and 3, Athens (GR)
Ernst im Ersten, Theater.doc, Moscow (RU)
2015 According to Marty McFly 2015 is the Future – João Cocteau, Berlin (DE)
Visions-V_Ideas, Performaces – Beton 7, Athens (GR)
Netting the Work – Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Zentrum für Kultur und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin (DE)
Excentricités Performance Art Festival – Musée des Beaux Arts, Besançon (FR)
2014 Critical Wounds (Grief and self-injury as a means of protest) – Altes Finanzamt, Berlin (DE)
Unantastbar! Touch and bodily interaction – collaborative project by artists with and without handicap, Berlin (DE)
2013 Violating Democracy. Political and artistic approaches to state oppression – Aman, Berlin (DE)
‘To the friend who didn’t save my life’ / CH – Lange Nacht der Bilder, HB55, Berlin (DE)
Sheipur – UdK Berlin (DE)
2009 Cinephilia, Passion and Media – International VGIK Festival, Moscow (RU)
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2022 ausland - territory for arts and collateral damage, Berlin (DE)
2022 Dis-Tanz-Solo grant
2019-2021 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation scholarship for PhD in Fine Arts
2018 Criss-Cross – artist on artist convergences performance residency, Athens School of Fine Arts, Hydra (GR)
2017 CON_TEXT performance residency, Lettretage, Berlin (DE)
2009 Bard College Berlin (European College of Liberal Arts), scholarship for an artistic research project
2009 Film studies magazine Cinematic Proceedings (RU) – Prize for the best film diploma project
CONFERENCES
2022 11. European Feminist Research Conference, Milan (IT)
FILMOGRAPHY
2018-present Surrounded by Sunsets – film direction, cinematography
2016 Same Time Tomorrow, Athens Biennale 5to6 Omonia
2016 Khodorkovsky’s New Freedom (BR/WDR – Saxonia Entertainment GmbH), assistant director, producer, cinematographer
2016 Critical Wounds – film direction, performance
2015 Digital Dissidents (WDR – gebrueder beetz filmproduktion), research and assistant cinematographer
2013 ‘To the friend who didn’t save my life’ / CH
WORK EXPERIENCE
2010-present – freelance artist, filmmaker, cinematographer, researcher and cultural events producer
2022 Seminar: Crying Institute, Bauhaus-University Weimar, with prof. Birte Kleine-Benne (DE)
2021 Workshop: Introduction to funeral stripping. Embodied skills of solidarity in grief, One Minute Space, Athens (GR)
2019 Workshop: Delegated mourning and storytellng, PAF (FR)
2019 Festival 4. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin – translation
2018-19 ‘Across the Middle, Past the East. An Unsettled Cabaret’, Sophiensaele Berlin – makeup artist
2018 Festival Russian Spring: Contemporary Theatre From Russia, Berlin – assistant/translation
2016 Khodorkovsky’s New Freedom (BR/WDR – Saxonia Entertainment GmbH) – assistant film director, producer, cinematographer
2015 Digital Dissidents (WDR – gebrueder beetz filmproduktion) – research and assistant cinematographer
2015 Nordwind Festival, Berlin/Hamburg (DE) – translation
2013 Lenin in Vogelsang (Geschichtswerkstatt Europa) – assistant director
2012 7. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Project by Yael Bartana First International Congress of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland – volunteer
2007 International VGIK Festival, Moscow (RU) – curator of film and performance program ‘Cinephilia, Passion and Media’
2007 2. Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art / Group exhibition ‘We Are Your Future’ (USA-RU) – assistant curator
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
2013-present - Volunteer work at Contact and Advice Center for Refugees and Migrants (KuB e.V.), Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming: Queer Death Studies Handbook (eds. Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi), Routledge, 2023
2021 Caring to Keep One’s Impressions Alive, Research Catalogue / Society for Artistic Research
2017 “Hab keine Angst. Und benutze deine Haare”. Interview on Lettretage, 2017.
2014 Critical Wounds (Self-injury as a Protest and Performance of Femininity In Mourning Practices and Its Appropriation In the Performance and Video Art) – Institute for Art in Context, Berlin (DE)
2012 Positions V: Contemporary Artists From Russia. – Gerhard Steidl Verlag, Göttingen. 2012
2011 Haus Lemke, zum Abschied; and Der Einzeller (Absalon in den KW). In: Mise-en-scène – wie Ausstellungen aussehen, Universität der Künste Berlin, 2010.
2010 Directors’ Portraits of Boris Blank, Victor Eisymont, Vladimir Fokin. In: The Encyclopedia of The Russian Film Directors, Russian Film Institute, Moscow, 2010.
2009 Towards the Distinction Between Avant-garde Film And Video Art: Derek Jarman‘s ‘I-Film’, Contemporary Video Art And Ritual Sensibility – VGIK, Moscow, 2009.
2008 The Sound of a Cameo (Sound, Image and Persona in Derek Jarman’s Films and Music Videos). In: Mirrors and Labyrinths: A Polylogue. Collection of Theoretical Articles, GITR, Moscow, 2008.
2008 Vertov, Dziga: From the Heritage. Volume 2: Articles and Speeches. – Eisenstein Center for Film Research, Moscow. 2008
2007 Schlegel, Hans-Joachim: Sound Worlds of the Inside: On Andrey Tarkovsky’s Concept of Sound. In: Cinematic Proceedings, Moscow, № 82. 2007
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