Born: 31/01/1978 in Tbilisi
Lives in Moscow
Artist, specialist in museum management and exhibition policy, curator
Executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Education:
1999-2002 School of Visual Arts, New York, USA - Bachelor of Fine Arts
1996-1999 Parson’s School of Design, New York, USA
2006 – present Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts
2007 – present Member of Moscow Artists' Union
2008 – present Member of AAH (Association of Art Historians)
2006 – present Comissar of the Russian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale
2006 – present Member of the Organizational Committee of the “Innovation” State Award for Contemporary Art года
2009 – present Member of the Organizational Committee of “Kandisky Prize”, the independent national Russian award in contemporary art
2007 – present One of the initiators and a member of the Organizational Committee of the Moscow Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?”
Exhibition participation:
2003
“ARTCONSTITUTION” exhibition project dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow)
Moscow Festival for Experimental Art and Performance №4 (Manege, Saint Petersburg)
2004
“Russia” art show (Central house of Artists, Moscow)
“Object Space” (All-Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Arts, Moscow)
“In Between” exhibition project/ Exhibition for Young Art “Workshop 20’04” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow)
“Art-Klyazma” exhibition project
2005
Moscow Festival for Experimental Art and Performance №5, (Manege, Saint Petersburg)
“Dialogues” VII International Biennale (Manege, Saint Petersburg)
“World of War” exhibition (All-Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Arts, Moscow)
“MEMORIA” exhibition project / Exhibition for Young Art “Workshop 20’05” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow)
2006
“8 ½” FALEK WAM exhibition project
Tbilisi International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Georgia)
2007
‘I Believe” exhibition project within the II Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art (Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow)
“Art Digital” exhibition (Center for Contemporary Art M’ARS, Moscow)
Russian Academy of Arts 250th anniversary exhibition (Manege, Moscow)
Aidan Gallery 15th anniversary exhibition (Aidan Gallery at Winzavod, Moscow)
Выставочный проект «Новый Ангеларий» (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow)
2009
“History of Russian Video Art. Volume 2” international exhibition project (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow)