EXPERIENCE
2020
2020 — RAUM SPACE CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL, KALININGRAD, BERLIN
executive producer and program director of the festival RAUM SPACE. The festival is organized by NGO Art-Vorota (Kaliningrad) and ostPunkt e.V. (Berlin) in cooperation with the independent curatorial initiative "International Cultural Project Butterbrot“ (Berlin), and with financial support from the The Federal Foreign Office of Germany (Auswärtiges Amt) .
2014 - 2020 — THE KOLOBOV NOVAYA OPERA THEATRE, MOSCOW
director of the ceremony of the Russian opera prize Casta Diva (president Mikhail Muginstein)
director of the concert performance of the opera «Mazepa» by Piotr Tchaikovsky (conductor Evgeny Samoilov, light Sergei Skornezky), director of the scenic composition «Alice in Wonderland» based on operas of Efrem Podgaiz (set Etel Yoshpa)
as assistant director worked with Georgy Isaakyan (Giacomo Puccini «La Boheme», set Hartmut Schörghofer), Katia Odegova (Charles François Gounod «Faust» and Richard Strauss «Salome», conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, set Etel Yoshpa), Oliver Mears (Benjamin Britten «Turn of the screw», conductor Jan Latham-Koenig), Arno Bernard (Charles François Gounod «Roméo et Juliette» conductor Fabio Mastrangelo), Igor Ushakov (Vladimir Martinov «L'École des femmes», libretto Jury Lubimov, conductor Dmitry Jurovsky,
director of different concerts and shows
2020 — PARK GALLERY, MOSCOW
chief executive officer (CEO) and program director (PD) in Park Gallery as the part of the Network Moscow City Galleries
curator of the exhibition «Air» by Daria Fedorova
producer of the exhibition «I vaselki…» by Alexey Ryabov (curator Eketerina Isaeva)
producer of «Radical purification» curated by Oxana Lebedeva
curator of the public interview series with artist of the Park Gallery
2020 — ARTVOROTA AUTONOMUS NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, KALININGRAD
executive producer (EP)
2020 — FORMA FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Moscow
grant manager
2020 — BOLSHOI THEATER, MOSCOW
assistant director (AD) of Dmitri Tcherniakov, opera «Sadko» by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov (conductor Timur Zangiev, costume designer Elena Zaitzeva, light Gleb Filshtinsky)
2019
2019 — RECREATION FESTIVAL, MOSCOW
initiator, curator and director of The festival of artistic practices and active listening «Recreation». Eight-days festival was consist of four program lines: exhibition, concerts, theater, educational program. More than 120 artist took part in The Recreation Festival and around 3000 people have visited it. World premier of the chamber musical "Leonard and Susanna" took place during the festival. The members of curatorial team — Olga Derugina, Sergei Zykov, Kristina Markova, Sergej Morozov.
2019 — THE JEWISH MUSEUM AND TOLERANCE CENTER, MOSCOW
curator and director of the series of performative events «studio union of youth» as a part of the exhibition Union of Youth. Russian Avant-Garde 1909 - 1914
2019 — UGOL THEATER, KAZAN
science theater performance «Decease experiences» with cardiologist Roman Ursan
2019 — CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART WINZAWOD
vocal performance series in Open Studios residence
2019 — ART CENTER «ETHER», MOSCOW
stage director of «Scroll» (playwright Konstantin Potapov, sound designer Felix Mikenski)
2019 — THE DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE, SAINT-PETERSBURG
director of the performance «Venus is near» as a part of the urban research project «Waterfront: Neighbourhood & Community»
2019 — ARCHSTOYANIE, NIKOLA-LENIVETS
director and curator of the performative opera project «Imprints» (composer Anna Pospelova, librettist Katya Bondarenko, conductor Oleg Paiberdin, architect Maria Kremer, costume designer Sasha Kharina, choreographer Katya Stegniy, historian Vladislav Staf)
2019 — NOL THEATER, MOSCOW
director of the reading of the play «Talking about the coat» by Konstatin Potapov, feat. by MOSCHEE, Lubimovka Festival
2019 — CENTER OF DIRECTING AND PLAYWRITING, MOSCOW
co-director of the musical performance «Oza» by Andrej Voznesensky
performative lecture based on John Cage’s «Lecture about Nothing»
2013-2019 — CULTURAL CENTER ZIL, MOSCOW
initiator, curator and director of The festival of artistic practices and active listening «Recreation»
producer of performative laboratory «Time out of joint» with curatorial group: philosopher Boris Klushnikov, art critic Egor Sofronov, dance critic Kate Ganushina, choreographer Vera Priklonskaya, director Vladimir Bocharov, sound artist Andrej Gurianov
director of the musical «Netochka and The Christmas» based on Fiodor Dostoevsky «Netochka Nezvanova» (composer Antony Svetlichny)
director of the concert performance of mono-opera «Love of life» by Elisavieta Sanicheva, (conductor Philip Chizjevsky)
director of the audio installation TANGOS (designer Marina Ivashkova, with participation of the Studio for New Music)
director of different concerts and shows
2018-2019 — SOUNDMINING_LAB
performative sound installation soundmining_depo, ArtLikhoradka Festival of contemporary art, Moscow
sound installation soundmining_kazan, DOCA (Days of Contemporary Art) exhibition, Moscow
performative sound installation soundmining_kazan, TAT CULT LAB exhibition, Kazan
performative sound installation soundmining_klin, «The city KLIN’13» exhibition, Moscow
2017-2019 — STANISLAVSKY AND NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO MOSCOW MUSIC THEATER
performer in CoOPERAtion’17 (director Ekaterina Vasileva, curator Natalia Surnina)
director in CoOPERAtion’18 (curator Ekaterina Vasileva, composer Ania Pospelova, playwright Ekaterina Bondarenko)
2018
2018 — NIGHT OF THE LIGHT FESTIVAL, GATCHINA
director of the «Impulse» performative light installation, coproduction with MOSPACE Architects and composer Kirill Shirokov
2018 — MEYERHOLD MOSCOW CENTER
director of the performative project «Constitution» (choreographer Alena Papina, sound designer Dmitry Mazurov)
director of the reading of the platy «Homo digitalis» by Ariana Koch (Basel, Switzerland), supported by Pro Helvetia
2018 — NCCA, MOSCOW
performative event based on Zamira Besolti’s zin «Yours David»
2018 — DOC THEATER, MOSCOW
performer in the reading of the play «The censor Lopatkin’s case» (director Anastasia Patlay, author Nana Grinstein)
2015-2018 — VOCAL THEATRE «LA GOL», MOSCOW
director and performer in different art galleries and museums with Natalia Pshenichnikova, Kristian Kesten, Shelley Hirsch, Alexey Kokhanov. Repertoire of the «La Gol» Ensemble : Dmitri Kurliandski, Sergej Nevski, Klaus Lang, John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Robert Ashley, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Kunsu Shim, Kirill Chernegin, Andrey Besogonov, Kirill Shirokov, Elizaveta Sanicheva, Antony Svetlichny a.o.
2017
2017 — SCHUSEV STATE MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE, MOSCOW
performer in documentary opera «Melnikov» by Kirill Shirokov (director Anastasia Patlay)
2017 — THEATER AN DER WIEN, WIENER KAMMEROPER, VIENNA
director of the opera by Nicolo Porpora «Arianna in Nasso» (conductor Markellos Chryssico, set Ksenia Peretruchina, costume Lyosha Lobanov, light Franz Tscheck)
2017 — SCHAUSPIELHAUS, GRAZ
director of the opera by Gaetano Donizetti «Don Pasquale» as the part of the final of Ring Award Competition 2017 (set — Alexandra Alekseeva)
2016
2016 — «NA BASMANOY» MUSICAL THEATER, MOSCOW
director, set and costume designer of the opera-buffa «Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui…» by Jacques Offenbach
(puppet Natalia Pakchomova, light designer Andrei Cherkasov)
2014-2016 — PERM OPERA
director of award ceremony of Diaghilev Prize
director of award ceremony «Resonance»
2015
2015 — VORONEZH OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE
director and designer of 55th anniversary ceremony
2013
2012-2013 — YABLOCHKINA ARTISTIC SOCIETY, MOSCOW
director of the operatic performance «Drei» in celebration of 200h anniversary of Richard Wagner, supported by German Embassy in Moscow
director of the opera «The Scarlet Flower» by Nikolai Sidelnikov
2011-2013 — RSITA-GITIS, MOSCOW
co-director and set designer of the opera «The stone guest» by Alexander Dargomyzhsky
director of the scenic version of «Pierrot Lunaire» by Arnold Schoenberg
EDUCATION
opera director, Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, tutor Pascal Dusapin, 2019
curator, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Avant-garde_LAB school, tutor Aleksander Kremer, 2018
set and costume designer, British Higher School of Art & Design, tutors Galia Solodovnikova & Polina Bakhtina, 2016
opera director, Russian State Institute of Theatre Arts-GITIS,, tutor Dmitry Bertman, 2015
TEACHING
invited lecturer in Hong Kong Baptist University, HKBU, Hong Kong, 2020
opera history course, tutors Anastasia Nefedova and AJ Weissbard, HSE University, Moscow, 2020
tutor of the course «Contemporary opera», Moscow School of the New Literature, Moscow, 2020
COMPETITIONS
finalist of European Opera-directing Prize - EOP, Camerata Nuova, Karlsruhe, Germany
finalist of Ring Award’17, Graz, Austria, 2017
jury member of the New Opera World Competition, Moscow, 2016
finalist of II International Competition for Young Opera Directors Nano-Opera, Moscow, 2015
winner of The ZIL competition of creative project, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, 2013
GRANTS
grant holder of The Federal Foreign Office grant program, Auswärtiges Amt, NGO ArtVorota, Kaliningrad, Berlin, 2020
scholarship holder of the Opera after Corona program, Camerata Nuova, Wiesbaden, 2020
travel grant holder, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence, France, 2019
travel grant holder, Nordic Council Fond, Waterfront: Neighbourhood & Community, Finland-Sweden-Danmark, 2019
scholarship holder of The State Grand for Creative Youth, State Theatrical Union, Moscow, 2014 / 2018
RESIDENCES
participant of «Annihilation» residence, curators Dmitri Volkostrelov and Oleg Loevsky, Kazan, 2019
resident of the «Open Studio», Winzavod, Moscow, 2019
resident of the art cluster «Ok16», Minsk, Belarus, 2019
participant of ENOA program, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence, France, 2019
resident of Cultural Center ZIL, «Danilovsky district: re-writing the place», Moscow, 2019
resident of the Meyerhold Moscow Centre, project «Constitution», 2017-2018
AWARDS
performative project «Constitution» was long-listed for Sergey Kurekhin Prize, Saint-Petersburg, 2019
documental opera «Melnikov» was nominated for Golden Mask Prize, Moscow, 2019
FESTIVALS
program director of the RAUM SPACE Festival of contemporary art, Kaliningrad, Berlin, 2020
co-creator of net-art «WETHEBUTTON» as a part of «Tochka dostupa» special on-line program, Moscow, 2020
initiator, curator and director of The festival of artistic practices and active listening «Recreation»
performative opera project «Imprints» was the part of Archstoyanie Festival, Nikola-Lenivets, 2019
performative event «Constitution» was nominated for Sergey Kurekhin Price, Saint-Petersburg, 2019
opera «Imprints» by Anna Pospelova, Archstoyanie Festival, Kaluga, 2019
the documentary opera «Melnikov» is nominated as «Experiment», Golden Mask Festival, Moscow, 2019
performative light installation «Impulse», The Night of Light Festival, Gatchina, 2018
performance «The smoke» based on Ivan Turgenev novel, Global Jam Festival, Museon Park, Moscow, 2018
CONFERENCES
speaker of the Opera Europa online autumn conference Survival of the Fittest, Moscow, 2020
speaker of the international conference «Theater in public space», RANEPA, Moscow, 2020
speaker of online presentation of the «We, the trees» zine, NCCA, Saint-Petersburg, 2020
tutor of the workshop «Soundmining in architecture», Gnesin Contemporary Music Week. Moscow, 2020
moderator of the discussion «Curator, artist, spectator», Park Gallery, Moscow, 2020
moderator of the discussion of the Teatrium Festival, The Vinzavod Center, Moscow, 2020
speaker of the discussion «Opera after Corona», moderator Nicholas Payne, Camerata Nuova, 2020
speaker of the discussion «Spreading the boundaries», Art Likhoradka vol. 4, BORSCH Gallery, 2020
speaker and moderator of educational program of The Recreation Festival, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
speaker of the discussion «Place of memory. Performative instruments of memory research», Nikola-Lenivets, 2019
producer of the public program of performative laboratory «Time out of joint» with art critic and historian Ilya Budraitskis, historian and philosopher Andrei Aleinikov, art historian Oleg Aronson, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
moderator of the «Costitution.book» zin presentation, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow 2019
speaker of the discussion «Young directors speak about experimental opera», Voznesensky Center, Moscow 2019
speaker of the lecture-concert by Raut Farkhatov «Worlds of contemporary music», Moscow State Philharmonic Society, 2019
speaker in the conference «Laboratory in performing arts», RANEPA, Moscow, 2018
moderator of the panel discussion «Constitution», Meyerhold Moscow Center, 2018
speaker of the conference @Performative practices in Russia: strategies of hybridisation», Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, 2019
the Porous Borders Symposium speaker, Prague, 2017
speaker in the public talk «Do we need contemporary opera?», Stanislavsky Electrotheater, Moscow, 2017
speaker of the Young Musicologist Forum «Dialogues in the space of music and theatre», Moscow 2017
LABORATORIES
producer and moderator of the workshop series Tools Without Rules, The RAUM SPACE Festival, Kaliningrad, Berlin, 2020
tutor of the workshop «The walk as performative medium», State Theatrical Union, Moscow
participant of the workshop «Reflections» curated by composer Pascal Dusapin, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence, France, 2019
participant of the workshop «Earth Hour» for light installation prototype, Moscow Architecture School MARCH, 2019
participant of the laboratory of the new urbanism Waterfront: Neighbourhood & Community, Saint-Petersburg, 2019
participant of the laboratory of the new media, TAT CUL LAB, Kasan, 2019
participant of the seminar for playwright with Ariane Koch (Basel, Switzerland), supported by Pro Helvetia, Moscow, 2018
participant of Avant-garde_LAB curators school, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, 2018
participant of BLICK’17: Harun Farocki Festival, Goethe-Institut, Moscow, 2017
participant of inclusive theatre practice, curators Dr. Rose Whyman and Adam Ledger, Meyerhold Moscow Centre, 2017
participant of CoOPERAtion opera project, Moscow, 2017
participant of Konstantin Bogomolov laboratory, Moscow, 2017
participant of «La Gol» vocal laboratory curated by Natalia Pshenichnikova, Moscow, 2016
participant of Aleksander Nosovsky cinema lighting design courses, Moscow, 2016
participant of «Golden Ass» project of Boris Jukhananov, Stanislavsky Electrotheater, Moscow, 2016
participant of commedia dell’arte master-class in Academia dei filodrammatici, Milan, 2012
EXHIBITIONS
curator of «Air» by Daria Fedorova, Park Gallery, Moscow, 2020
producer of «I vaselki…» by Alexey Ryabov, curator Ekaterina Isaeva, Park Gallery? Moscow, 2020
producer of «Radical purification» curated by Oxana Lebedeva, Park Gallery, Moscow, 2020
participant of the exhibition «Alternative reality» curated by Katia Finkelstein, YRA Foundation, Moscow, 2020
participant of the parallel program of Art Likhoradka vol. 4 with WETHEBUTTON project, BORSCH Gallery, 2020
producer and co-curator of The Recreation Festival exhibition, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
participant of «Waterfront: Neighbourhood & Community» exhibition, Sevkabel, Saint-Petersburg, 2019
participant of the gala-exhibition of the residence «Kombucha» with performance «Ok, KUMU!», Minsk, 2019
curator of the exhibition «Imprints» in partnership with GULAG History Museum, Nikola-Lenivets, 2019
participant of Prague Quadrennial exhibition, video «NL18», Prague, 2019
curator of the Avantgarde works of Boris Throfimov group of artists, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
participant of DOCA (Days of Contemporary Art) exhibition, soundmining_kazan installation, Moscow, 2019
participant of the exhibition in Sergey Kurekhin Center of contemporary art, «Constitution», Saint-Petersburg, 2019
participant of TAT CULT LAB exhibition, performative sound installation soundmining_kazan, Kazan Arena, 2018
«The city KLIN’13» exhibition, performative sound installation soundmining_klin,, Bachrushin State Museum, Moscow, 2018
curator of the «Algorithm of action» exhibition, Meyerhold Moscow Center, 2018
curator of the «Practice of memory» exhibition, Meyerhold Moscow Center, 2018
curator of the «Constitution» exhibition, Meyerhold Moscow Center, 2018
idea and production of the «Diet Mountain Dew» exhibition in the foyer of Wiener Kammeroper, Vienna, 2017
PUBLICATIONS / EDITIONS
curator of the zine «We, the trees», with Anna Sarukhanova, Anna Karp, Aleksandra Kokacheva, Kira Charlashova, Maria Tininka and Karina Scherbakova, Curatorial Forum, NCCA, Saint-Petersburg, 2020
curator of the zine project for SHKAF library, Saint-Petersburg, 2020
curator of photo zine «Recreation» by Mila Silenina and Yana Etkina, photographer Valeria Titova, Moscow, 2019
curator of the zine «studio youth union» by art group Tipatzeha and Mitya Grankov, Moscow, 2019
curator and editor of the zine «VIVYKH», Cultural center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
author of the text «Simonovka: time and space», published at https://syg.ma, Moscow, 2018
co-editor of the zin «Constitution.book» by Mila Silenina, Moscow, 2019
author of the text «Phenomenology of the voice», published at http://roomfor.ru, Moscow, 2018
producer and initiator of the zine «Papered Constitution» publication, Tipatzeha art group, Moscow, 2018
author of the text «The boundaries of a body and an identity in the Internet», published at pq.cz, Prague, 2017
VIDEO
author of the educational course «The voice in art» , The Closer Platform, Cosmoscow Foundation, Moscow, 2020
video «WTF» for «Waterfront: Neighbourhood & Community» exhibition, Sevkabel, Saint-Petersburg, 2019
video «Firing line» for performative project «VIVYKH», Cultural center ZIL, Moscow, 2019
video «NL18» for The Prague Quadrennial exhibition, Prague, 2019
video «Visions», TAT CULT LAB exhibition, Kazan, 2019