EDUCATION

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* “Performing Gender: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, and Visual Arts in CEE/FSU”, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 1997.
* Department of Fine & Applied Arts, Moscow Textile Institute. Degree granted June 16, 1981.

 

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RELATED EXPERIENCE

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1994–2015. Collaborated as the professor at the Gender Studies Department of The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), and as the curator of the RSUH Museum Centre funds.
1996–2018. Co-founder and Director of the non-profit cultural organization “INO (Art, Science, Education) 
Creative Lab”.
Since 2023. Co-founder & Chair of the INEMEA, International New Media Art, the non-profit association in
the field of Art, Culture and Education, Israel. www.inemea.org


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

 

2024
JUST SCAN ME! The new media art exhibition, Jerusalem House of Quality, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Jerusalem Biennale: ART AND NOMADS: MULTIPLE HORIZONS, the international Exhibition. President Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel.

2023
The 3 ARTPLATFORM-ON: Art & Nomads – the Other Nature. The international exhibition and conference project organized within the 6th Jerusalem biennale program.
Within the project: 1. Nomada Digital Art: Flying Over Borders. International new media art exhibition, Harmony Cultural Center; 2. Metaverse International Art exhibition online: International Multimedia Exhibition, International Art Exhibition. Jerusalem, Israel—Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Co-curator, participant.
13th Yeosu International Art Festival, The Sea, What we think What we show. Yeosu, Republic of Korea.

2022
5-nations Artplatform 2, Art & Environment = Crossing, the international cooperative that seeks the value of art, social role, and direction of practice and explores common issues together / co-organizer, participant.

2021
5-nations Artplatform 1, National identity and Contemporary Art exhibition on-line, Gwangiu. / co-organizer, participant.

2020
Curated International residency exchange project, International Visual Culture & Arts Association, Gwangju City Hall. Participant.
White Dance, feminist art project:’ exhibition series, Moscow. 2017—2019. Curators: Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Natalia Struchkova, Maria Ovchinnikova
 

2018—2019
Workshop Multimedia art: Frame of Reference of the Artist, ongoing Creative workshop, coordinator and curator.
Under the auspices of the workshop: curated A Path to Peace, Lee Lee Nam’ solo exhibition, Republic of Korea.
Mars Media art center, Moscow; The Number and The Digital, Russian-Korean International multimedia art exhibition. RGGU Museum Center, Moscow.

2016—2017
Workshop KiberFest, TCXP Creative workshop. Curator.
Under the auspices of the workshop:
Frame of Reference, International multimedia art exhibition, Cyland Media Lab, Russian Federation of Artists. RSUH Museum Centre, INO Creative Lab, Moscow. Curators of the exhibition: N. Kamenetskaya, A. Frants.
 

2016
Social Messages of Women Art. 2016 International Women’s Art Festival. Gwangju Folk Museum, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Co-curator of the project.

2015—2016
Interaction of cultures: forming women’s arts’ multiethnic space in Moscow metropolis, project. Project curator. Under the auspices of the project:
National & Universal in a New Culture of Megalopolis, International women’s art exhibition, curated by N. Kamenetskaya;
“Culture problems in the modern Moscow multiethnic space,” Round table discussion, moderator M. Kotovskaya, RSUH Museum Centre, INO Creative Lab, Moscow.
 

2015
Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World …), International exhibition presented in a special program for the 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. RSUH Museum Centre, Cyland Media Art Lab, INO Creative Lab, Moscow. Author of the project N. Kamenetskaya. Curators: Annuchka Brochet, Alexandra Dementieva, Noh, Jung Suk, An, Kyeongmi, Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Anna Frants.

2014
Garden of Flame, International Women’ s Arts Festival, International exhibition, Gwangju Folk Museum Exhibition Hall, Republic of Korea. Coordinator of the Russian division N. Kamenetskaya.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Childhood project: Sociocultural Portrait of Teenager in Historical Time’ Space, retrospection, exhibition, 
curators N. Kamenetskaya, N. Fomina, RSUH Museum Center, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; 
Sociocultural portrait of a contemporary teenager in a space of historical time, scientific conference, RSUH Museum Center, Moscow.

2013
Migrants project. RSUH Museum Centre, Department of gender research of RSUH, INO Creative Lab, SauleCurpenovaGallery, Moscow. Project curator N. Kamenetskaya.
Under the auspices of this project:

Migrants, International exhibition presented in a special program for the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art;
"Interaction of Cultures: migration in terms of the human and cultural values", International Conference.
Exhibition curators A. Brochet, N. Kamenetskaya.
Festival of women's art dedicated to the centenary of International Women's Day in Russia, M. Esmont, N. Kamenetskaya, Moscow:
International Women's Day. Feminism: from Avant-Guard till Presence, International feminist exhibition, March 7~May 12, curators N. Kamenetskaya, M. Loshak, O. Turkina. Museum and exhibition association “Manezh”, Museum and Exhibition Center ‘Worker and Kolkhoz Woman’;
Interaction of Cultures in a Polyethnic Space of Modern Civilization: gender aspect, International forum; Woman artist in modern world: her artistic and social identity, International Conference within the Forum. May 7~11. Co-organizers and moderators Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Maria Kotovskaya, Maria Esmond; Noh, Jung Suk; An, Kyeongmi;
Russian State University for the Humanities, Forum Host is Gwangju Metropolitan City, Gwangju Fine Arts Association, Russian Federation of Artists, Moscow.

2012
Lights of women. International Women Arts Festival, coordinator of the division of Russian artists, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

2011
Women’s Nano. International exhibition presented in a special program for the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. RSUH, RusNano, INO, Moscow. Curators: A. Brochet, N. Kamenetskaya, M. Naimushina.
Anthropologizing the Future, International exhibition presented in a special program for the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
The Contemporary Art Centre M’ARS, RGGU, INO, Moscow.

2010
ŽEN d’ART. The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989~2009, the large-scale retrospective exhibition and project,
author of the idea N. Kamenetskaya, curated by N. Kamenetskaya, O. Sarkisyan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, with the support of the Russian Academy of Arts, RSUH Museum Center, INO, Moscow, 2010;
“ŽEN d’ART. The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space: 1989~2009“, the book/catalog presentation. Under the auspices of this project: round-tables discussion and scientific seminars.

2008—2009
Workshop of Women's Creation, exhibitional, educational, and research project, worked out to promote the idea of a Museum of Women's Art in Russia. INO Creative Lab, Moscow.
Under the auspices of this project:
“Women’s art as a project as a Future”, International conference, MMOMA, RSUH, 2009;
"Practice of Women's Cultural Institutions. Gender text in visual culture ", International Conference, RSUH, 2009.
“Workshop of Women's Creation (WWC)”, Regional practical seminar, discussion, share of experience, models for regional women-creators’ presentations, 2009;
The Evidence of Absent Subject, the retrospective show of feminine art activism: “Workshop of Women’s Creation”, and the electronic version of the book «History of Feminine Creation, 1989-2009» presentation; performance by Maria Tchuikova “The Reading Housewife”. Presented in a special programme for the 3th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Curators N. Kamenetskaya, O. Sarkisyan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Vulnerability, International women art exhibition presented in a special program for the 3th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The Museum Centre of RGGU, INO, Moscow.

2007
The Katoptron (The gaze and the mirror). International exhibition presented in a special programme for the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, INO, RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow.

2006
Homo Grandis Natu, Age, curators Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Reet Varblane. International exhibition of contemporary art focused on old age problems, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn and RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow.

2004—2006
Gender Aspects of the Visual Arts of Northern and Central Russia: Traditions and Innovations project.

Under the auspices of the project:
* Egalitarianism, exhibition presented in a special programme for the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Creative Lab INO, RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow. 2005;
* Images of Men and Women in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions. Murmansk Oblastnoi Centre for Creative Arts and Crafts, Murmansk. 2004.
* Publishing program: Website on the materials of the project, 2005; catalogue-collection of artistic and research materials, articles and speeches, 2006.
2004. Body, Culture, and Optical Phantoms. Exhibition as the part of the conference “Body and Culture”, RSUH, State Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

2002
Femme Art (Women's Painting in Russia, XV-XX centuries, authors of the project Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Nadezhda Jurosovskaya. Curator of the contemporary art division N. Kamenetskaya. Creative Lab INO, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

2001
Self-Portrait of the Woman Artist. Curators A. Alchuk, N. Kamenetsakaya, Yu. Lebedeva. RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow.

1993—1999
* Signs of/for the Times, coordinator of the program, developed in collaboration with RSUH for the examination of gender in modern culture. The program has resulted in the organization of several international conferences, seminars, and exhibitions, including:
* Anamnesis Lapsus Memoriae. Exhibition for “Women in Art” roundtable, RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow, 1999.
* Museum of Time, author and curator for the group project for Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Malyi Manezh, Moscow, 1998.
* Woman & Art. Curated by N. Kamenetskaya, N. Kigai. McArthur Foundation, Moscow, 1998;
* Borderlines of Interpretations. exhibition for the international conference "The Borderline of Interpretation of Humanitarian
and Scientific Knowledge”, curators N. Kamenetskaya, M. Tchuikova, RSUH Museum Centre, Moscow. 1996.
* Non-Verbal Communications (He, It, They). Exhibition for the conference "Non-Verbal Communications in Culture, Museum Centre, RGGU, Moscow. 1996.
* Apocalypse, exhibition for the international conference "Apocalypse: Self-Awareness of Culture on the Brink of the 20th Century”, Museum Centre, RGGU, Moscow. 1996.
* Colloquium: The Swedish-Russian Artistic Experience of Cultural Anthropology. Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow. 1995.
* Changing cultural paradigms, International Conference on Gender, RSUH, Moscow. 1995.
* Farewell times, International seminar within the International Conference on Post-Modernism and National Culture, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 1993.
* Women and Business in the Arts, roundtable, organizer. RSUH, Idioma Lab, Moscow. 1993.
* Between 1989 and 1993, the following exhibitions and conferences took place within the framework of long-term research into the historical role and present-day status of women in Russian culture: *0 Arcane. Women art exhibit for the international conference "Russian Culture and Subculture”, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1992;
* Hindelopa (The Obstacle Race), International conference and exhibition, Russian curators N. Kamenetskaya, I. Sandomirskaya, “IDIOMA” group, Swedish UN Association Scona, Tomelilla, Sweden, 1991;
* Femininity & Power, curators N. Kamenetskaya, I. Sandomirskaya, Central Club for Art Workers, Moscow. 1990;
* ŽEN, first feminist art project in Post-Soviet Moscow: the exhibition and the international conference “Women as Subject and Object in Art”, Sadovniky Gallery, Moscow. 1990.

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RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
 

* Between Earth and Heaven..., Art & Environment = Crossing conference, Miro Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. 2022.
* The Gender project in post-soviet art, the author's course of lectures, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2022.
* Number & Digit / Letter & Mind, Relationship between Letter Aesthetic and Cultural Identity conference, Artplatform-on project, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. 2021.
* “Testing Tolerance: Does Russia Need a Museum of Women's Art?" discussion / public program for the Present Continuous, 2021. 

* “About the first women’ art conference and exhibition in Moscow 30 years ago” / Democracy minus woman is not the democracy! 30 years of the First Independent Women's Forum, Round table discussion, zoom, 2021.
* “Women’s and feminist art and gender problematic in contemporary art culture” / The Technology Organization, Olim Communities House, Jerusalem, 2018.
* “The interaction of cultures” project: women’s art discourse and trends in the poly-national space of modern Russia”
/ The Role of Art as a Social Medium and the Direction for an Woman Artist’s Practice, International Women’s Art Forum, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, 2016.
* “The interaction of cultures: multiethnic space in arts of metropolis” / Culture problems in the modern Moscow multiethnic space, Round table discussion: N. Kamenetskaya, M. Kotovskaya, RSUH, 2015.
* “The Interaction of Cultures in a Poly-Ethnical Space: Gender Aspect. Art Exhibitions” / WORLD CULTURE AS A RESOURSE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: International Forum, The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow. 2015.
* “Some aspects of national / gender identity in contemporary visual culture of South Korea: Hallyu and contemporary art”/ Contemporary art of the East, 1st International scientific conference, MMOMA, The State Museum of Oriental art, Moscow, 2015.
* “Women’s Art & Artists in former Soviet Union: Regional Specialization and General Trends”/ International conference Current state of affairs and prospect for the multidisciplinary arts in women’s life, Gwangju Folk Museum, Gwangjiu, Republic of Korea, 2014.
* “Soviet and Post-Soviet Childhood project, dialogues of generations”, Sociocultural portrait of a contemporary teenager in a space of historical time, science conference, RSUH, Moscow. 2014.
* “Art space of migration” / International conference Interaction of Cultures: migration in terms of the human and cultural values. Moderators N. Kamenetskaya, M. Kotovskaya, RSUH, Moscow, 2013.
* “Feminist art history and questions of gender analysis in relation to women artists and to exhibitions "ŽEN d’ART..." and "Femme Art." / Woman in Russian Art: new perspectives on feminist practice”, conference, EBRD, Pushkin House, London, 2013.
* “Women’ s and social in Russian art: women artists in the project ZEN” / Woman artist in contemporary world: her artistic and social identity, Devoted to the Centennial of International Women’s Day International Forum, Russian State University for The Humanities, Moscow, 2013.
* Conference “Art et Genre dans l'espace postsovietique”, presentee dans le cadre du seminaire doctoral « Projets interdisciplinaires : art et science » de l’Ecole doctorale 279 ARTS PLASTIQUES, ESTHETIQUE ET SCIENCES DE L'ART, Centre Saint-Charles Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, 2013.
* “Women’ s and social in Russian art: women artists in the project ZEN” / Woman artist in contemporary world: her artistic and social identity, International conference within the International Forum, devoted to the Centennial of International Women’s Day. RSUH, Moscow, 2013.
* Gender Project in the Post-Soviet Space master-classes: “Western European feminist art of the 1970s-90s: projects and women artists”; “Mirrors: simularities and diversities of Western and Russian gender art discourse”; “Gender body representations and revision of gender stereotypes in Post-Soviet art. Russian body art: beasts, angels, vampires”;
* “The Gender Boundaries project: musculine and feminine myths”; “"Women's Project": mental archeology, social criticism, and legalization of "female" art” / A.G. Tyshler Educational and Research Center for the Study of Russian Culture of the 20th century, Russian State University for the Humanities, 2011.
* Presentation of the project "Workshop of Feminine Creation. History of Feminine Culture in the Post-Soviet Space, 1989-2009", and the electronic version of the book «History of Feminine Creation, 1989-2009», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 25 Petrovka str., Moscow, 2009.
* Gender representions in Russian art // Theory and methodology of gender researches. Curse of leactures. / edited by Olga Voronina, 2007.
* “Does Post-Soviet Feminism exist? Is there Post-Soviet feminism?”, the lecture / “Post-Soviet women in politics, love and art” round table, moderator, Tenth International Summer School on Gender Studies, Pharos, Ukraine, 2006.
* Round table discussion, within the seminar Images of men and women in visual culture of the Arctic Circle: gender dimensions: A. Alchuk, L. Bredikhina, N. Kamenetskaya, Murmansk, 2004.
* “Egalitarianis: exhibition and artists” / Round table Images of men and women in the visual culture of the North and the Center of Russia. RSUH, 2005.
* “The ‘New Adam’ in Russian Cultural Representation (Angels and Beasts) to the end of the Millenium in Russia,” lecture, Dept. of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, 1997.
* “International Net and Virtual Cultural Projects in Russia”, lecture, Lehman College, New York, 1997.
* “International Net and Virtual Cultural Projects in Russia”, lecture, Ramapo College, New Jersey, 1997.
* "Gender Representation in Russian Culture & Art: the End of the 90s", lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, 1996.
* "Gender Representation in Russian Culture & Art: the End of the 90s", lecture, New York Studio Program, Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, New York, 1996.
* "Women in Arts", talks at the University of Lund, Sweden, 1990.
* “Woman as an object, and subject in Art” / Obstacle Race conference, City Hall of Tomelilla, Sweden, 1991.
* “The concept of the journal, and some problems of feminist criticism of totalitarian culture”, presentation at the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Studies, the University of Rochester, USA, 1990.

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RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

 

• 2022. Recognition as a "Particularly outstanding" artist. Awarded by the Creative commission in the field of plastic arts, Israel.

• 2019. Curated by Guangju, Gungdong Miro Residence, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Granted by Gungdong Miro Residence.

• 2018. Recognition of the status of Repatriate scientist, Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Israel.

• 2016. Grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for merits in the field of artistic culture, 2016. Agreement № 054-10-2018-134.

• 2014. Silver medal of Merit in the culture. *Award from Russian Federation of Artists.

• 2011. “Innovation", the 6th  All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition Award 2010. Nominee in the nomination “Art theory and criticism”.

• 2011. Bronze Medal of Merit in the culture.

• Award from Russian Federation of Artists.

• 1997. Residency Apocalypso, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada.

• Awarded grant from Banff Centre for the Arts.

• 1996. Summer University, CEU, Budapest, Hungary.

• Awarded grant from the CEU, Soros Foundation.

• 1996.Yaddo Residency for Artists, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

• Awarded grant from the Yaddo Residence, Trust for Mutual Understanding.

• 1995. Award from RSUH for the “Apocalypse” exhibition.​