Curator, art-manager (MS), artist. Director of the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts.
b. 1965
Education:
2002 Placement at the CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, Russia-UK-Netherlands Arts Managers Placement Program
2002 Study-tour “Contemporary Art Directors Visit to New York”, organized by CEC International Partners, New-York, USA.
2001 Placement at the Salzburg Summer Academy for Culture and Media and Management, Austria.
1999 Graduated from the Russian-British Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Cultural Management Department, specializing in cultural policy, socio-cultural programming, management and research (Diploma, MS of Cultural Management, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland).
1988 Graduated from the Leningrad State Teachers’ Training Institute named after Gertsen, the Fine Art Department.
Institutional practice:
Since 1997 till present has been Director of the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts.
From 1991 to 1997 worked at the Kaliningrad Art Gallery (till 1994 as research officer at the Department of the Soviet Art, and later head of the Department of Research and Exposition). From 1988 to 1991 was a Teacher of fine art at the 6th Kaliningrad Secondary School.
Since 2003 has curated of the reconstruction and adjustment of the federal monument of the 19th century – tower-redan and mansard of the casern “Kronprinz” – the future residence of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kaliningrad. Since 1993 is the Curator of the projects and programs in the field of contemporary art. Researches art-spaces and works with the issues of their reconstruction, reanimation and revitalization. Also works with the issues of identity, actualization and artistic interpretation of cultural and historical heritage of the Kaliningrad region.
Including:
Ño-curator of the project “Red – Red. Yury Vassiliev and Carl Michael von Hausswolff” (Russia, Sweden) a special project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2009, author and one of the curators of the international program “Tower Kronprinz: Second Advent” www.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/kronprinz-competition (2009-2005); author and one of the curators of the project “Art-Guide. Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad Now”- the first specialized art guide to the city www.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/art-guide (2004-2005); member of the Editorial Board of the contemporary art edition pH, Kaliningrad, NCCA (2002/2003); author and curator of project «SHE-CAT» («The Kaliningrad Aborigines»), devoted to the new mythology of the city of Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad (Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad region; the Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Russia, 2002); guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts, New-York, Department of Photography (2002); co-curator of the Kaliningrad part of the International Biennial of Young Art «ArtGENDA 2002 HAMBURG» (Hamburg, Germany, 2001); curator of the Kaliningrad part of the project «Äàâàé! Davaj! Russian Art now» (Berlin, Germany – Vienna, ÌÀÊ, Austria, 2001); one of the curators of the Open Social Network Art Project «Art of Tortures and Executions – Art Against Tortures and Executions» (2000-2001); author and curator of the project “Media-Graph”: animation, computer graphics, performance, multi-media. (Kaliningrad, 2000); chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Member of the Jury of the 3d and 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art “Kaliningrad – Koenigsberg 94, 96” (Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Russia, 1993-96); curator of Richard Serra’s personal exhibition (M Bohum gallery, Germany) within the framework of 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art “Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg” (Kaliningrad, 1996).
Participant of international conferences and symposia, including: 2005 – International Conference «Sustainable Art Spaces» (Beirut, Lebanon. Organizers: the Ford Foundation, Arab Image Foundation, Ashkal Alwan and Shams); 2005 – round-table discussion “Jubilee as a Chance? 750 anniversary of Kaliningrad and Koenigsberg” (Berlin, Germany. Organizers: LiteraturWerkstatt Berlin, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor); 2003 – International Conference “More Europe – Foreign Cultural Policies in and beyond Europe” (Warsaw, Poland. Organizers: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw in cooperation with the Delegation of the European Commission). 2003 - International Symposium “Construction – Deconstruction – Reconstruction. Germany and Russia: Two Projects of the European Modernism” within the framework of the program of cultural meetings of the Germans and Russians (organizers: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany).
Publications:
Life did well. - Kaliningrad: history in art. Art-fact. 1946-2006/ T.U. Suvorova, A. Yuozaitis, G.V. Zabolotskaya and others. – Kaliningrad, Pitkorika, 2008. – 194 p.
Art-Guide. Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad Now / I.D.Chechot, A.N.Popadin, A.M.Sologubov and others., editor-in-chief E.B.Tsvetaeva, editor I.D.Chechot and Erika Wolf. – Kaliningrad: Yantarny Skaz, 2005 – 344 p.
Art-Guide. Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad now / I.D.Chechot, A.N.Popadin, A.M.Sologubov and others, Editor-in-Chief E.B.Tsvetaeva, Editor I.D.Chechot and Erika Wolf. – Kaliningrad: NCCA, 2006 – 276 p.
Pure Europeans. – Kaliningrad: Pro-contemporary art edition ðÍ, ¹1, 2003
Protective Red: Denomination of Symbols. – ÌÀÊ, Wien: exhibition catalogue «Äàâàé! Davaj! Russian Art Now», 2002
Political Culture on Walls. – Yekaterinburg: Cultural Magazine Komod, ¹ 9, 2000
