Andrey Shental is a critic, curator and artist based in Berlin.

He studied Literary and Art Criticism in the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and holds a Master’s degree from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London. Currently he is writing his PhD in philosophical aesthetics at Goethe University (Frankfurt). From 2016 to 2019 he co-curated the Philosophy Club at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, where he created the education programs. Shental curated Arseny Zhilyaev's solo exhibition The Return (Winzavod CCA, Moscow, 2017) and the education program Salon of Rejected Categories at the 7th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2020), and co-curated the program Turbulence at the 8th Cosmoscow International Fair (Moscow, 2020).

He has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to various publications, including Artforum, Camera Austria, Frieze, Idea, Little Joe, Mute, Springerin, and Colta. He was editor for contemporary art at Theory and Practice from 2013 to 2016, editor at Moscow Art Magazine from 2016 to 2017, and a foreign correspondent for Flash Art International from 2015 to 2018.