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2024

The Sun Storehouse: Wetlands Between Death Drive and Libidinal Excess, an eco-psycoanalytical essay for Kunstlicht journal [upcoming]

Techno-Lords and User-Serfs, a review of ‘Poetics of Encryption’ at KW for Berlin Art Link

2023

Reconnaissance Art Report by Chief Curator of Artificial Intelligentsia, a short dystopia for This is Badland #6

From Every Depth of Good and Ill, review of steirischer herbst ʼ23 for Spike Magazine #77

On The Re-Enterable Doors, an essay for "Comm-Sui" exhibition, KuLe, Berlin

Aesthetics of Coercion. On Neo-Feudalism in Contemporary Art an essay for Spike Magazine

London, Goodbye. Desire for the West in Russian-language music fragment of a research on pop-culture in Beda media

To Perform amidst the Ruins of the Empire an essay on Keti Chukhrov's video-performance

Sexual and Gender Dissent: Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Georgy Guryanov in Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance, Academic Studies Press

2022

Solo Performance as Pride an obituary of queer icon Boris Moiseev [rus]

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022 (and Beyond) / Flash Art

 

Cartography of Masculinities in "Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous anthology" [rus]

2021

The Exquisite Corpse of Modernism an essay on differentiation between “left” and “right” aesthetics at Portal/ Syg.ma

 

Is music the most a-gender art? an essay on gendering of music at srsly [rus]

Stepping Twice into the River, an Essay on reconstruction exhibitions, Russian Art Focus

Review of "Closed Fish Exhibition" at Andrei Voznesensky Cultural Center

Fatally Cancelled by Ebay, a speculative and fictional essay on the parcelization of sovereignty by transnational corporations

2020

"Oh, That’s How Things Always Used to Be and That’s How They Will Stay" an essay on "the Ultramute of the Twelve Languages" by Alexei Taruts

"Libertarian Male Fantasies: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future" essay on russian libertarian movement [rus]

Reinventing Siberia, an essay on colonial mythology of Natura Siberica brand [rus]

Critique of Logistical Reason, an essay on how Russian delivery companies transform space and time [rus]

Sort and Rule, an essay on depolitization by ecological agenda [rus]

Dialectics of Sex and Penis Fencing, an essay on queerness of nature [rus] 

Due Diligence: on Ideology of Museum Security in anthology by v-a-c press

 

Review of "The Human Condition – Session V: Teleology of the Human. Biography, Destiny, Hope, Faith. Biography: a Model Kit exhibition" at
MMoMA, Camera Austria [eng]

Digital Feudalism of the Bat, dystopia on coronavirus

2019

The Non-Conformists. The Story of a Russian Collection, entries for the exhibition catalogue, Silvana / MOCO  [eng/fr]

Review of "Agency of Singular Investigations: Flower Power Archive" at MMoMA, Camera Austria [eng]

 

The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 at Garage, review, Artforum [eng]

Under Western Eyes, an essay on (de)colonization in art criticism for paper visual art journal [eng]

The Animacy of Matter, a critical essay for Anastasia Potemkina and Nikita Kadan's show "Attis" [eng]

2018

The Animacy of Matter, a critical text on Nikita Kadan and Anastasia Potemkina for Laura Bulian Gallery [eng]

Review on Edward Steichen's Delphiniums at MoMA (1936) for the Centre of Experimental Museology blog [rus/eng]

steirischer herbst / Graz / report, Flash Art Online [eng]

NEMOSKVA / Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk / report, Flash Art Online [eng]

Unfree Love, an essay on sex and love in the age of dating apps / syg.ma

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Riga, review, Flash Art Online [eng]

Review on  "If our soup can could speak… Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties" at Garage, springerin, 2/2018 [eng/ger]

Transmediale 31 / HKW / Berlin, review, Flash Art Online

 

Image Diplomacy / MMoMA / Moscow, review, Flash Art Online

 

Review on Naturgeschichten exhibition at mumok, springerin, 1/2018 [eng/ger]

2017

 

Lonely Warrior Against Authoritarian Regime: Soviet and Russian Art in Mass Media, a conversation between Andrey Shental, Alexandra Novozhenova and Boris Klyushnikov. Flash art,  № 318

 

Repatriation of the Universe, an essay on Russian cosmism, IDEA magazine, № 5

Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism / HKW, Flash Art, № 317 [eng]

“Artist Studios in the Dialectics of Re-skilling and Deskilling”, an essay in Nepokorennie Group Catalogue, MMoMA.

“Sexual Revolution as a Symptom of Capitalism?” Gender Studies Journal, Kharkiv

Communicative Failures and Defeats, an essay in the catalogue "How to Gather: Acting Relations, Mapping Positions" published by M HKA and V-A-C [eng/rus]

Moscow Diaries / MMoMA / Moscow / Flash Art, № 316 [eng]

Betrayed Revolution; or the Nineties Did Not Exit”, essay, Raznoglasiya Magazine

Geometry of Now / GES-2 / Moscow, review, Flash Art Online [eng]

2016

 

The Penetrated Body”, an essay in “Deep Inside” catalogue of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, edited by Nadim Samman [eng]

“The Unaccountable Youth” / Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, a report at Flash Art Online [eng]

Fungofetish and Fungocene: a Call to Sporulate”, a manifesto, Moscow Art Magazine, №99

When the Artist Speaks”, an essay on lecture performance, Raznoglasiya Magazine

Import/Export: Theses on Cultural Self-Sustainment”, essay/manifesto, Raznoglasiya Magazine

Digital Present Against Other Temporalities”, an essay on Berlin Biennale, Raznoglasiya Magazine

Evgeny Granilshchikov / Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow, review, Flash Art, № 308 [eng]

Human Commonalities / Vadim Sidur Museum / Moscow, review, Flash Art, № 311 [eng]

“Narrative devices”, an essay on DIS/Babak Redboy videos, Aperto № 2 [eng]

2015

 

“Turtle-Shell: Towards The Critical Object-Oriented Theory”, an essay in “Hybridize or Disappear” reader, Mousse Publishing, edited by João Laia [eng]


The Lawfulness and Lawlessness of Voice”, an essay on Rana Hamadeh, Moscow Biennale Blog[eng]

Us and Them, Here and There, Now and Then, an essay on Stina Östberg [eng]
 

Louise Bourgeois / Garage Museum / Moscow/ review, Flash Art [eng]


(Inter)national Shchusev Green, essay on Russian Pavilion in Venice, Colta

So different, so appealing”, an essay on Robert Hamilton, Iskusstvo Journal, №3

 

“Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: A Promise of Queer/Feminist Revolution”, essay, Little Joe, №5 [eng]

“What Did the Artist Mean By That?”, texts in a catalogue edited by Ekaterina Degot, MMoMA

 

Art Speech: What Is Lecture Performance?”, short interviews with Robert Morris, Guillaume Dessange, Hito Steyerl etc., Theory and Practice


Voice that Keeps Silence”, essay, Moscow Art Magazine, № 94


Natural-Digital Chiasmus”, essay, Moscow Art Magazine, № 96

2014

 

Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts”, ArtLeaks Gazette, Issue № 2 [eng]
 

Enjoy to the Extreme: Sex in Contemporary Art”, Theory and Practice
 

2013

 

“Discursive Interventions into Russian Art”, Frieze blog [eng]

"Through the Laser Field", an essay on Hito Steyerl's film Guards, Svilova gallery [eng]
 

Former West: Ruptures in Infrastructure”, a review, IDEA [eng]
 

Sword Dance Around Duchamp, a review of an exhibition in Hayward Gallery, Artterritory

2013 — Year In Russia and Abroad: Art Against the State”, LookAtMe

Art Speech”, essay, Moscow Art Magazine, №92

“Meta-artists as Quasi-curators”, an essay co-authored with Anna Ilchenko, Opcje journal


Feel Like at Home but Do not Forget That You are a Guest”, a review of Liverpool biennale, Artchronika

2012

 

“Omnipresent Dots of Kusama”, review of Tate exhibition, Artchronika

“Alighiero and Boetti”, review of Tate exhibition, Artchronika

Anti-art for the Sake of Anti-art”, review of Turner Prize, Artchronika

Shop of Amazing Objects”, review of Frieze art fair, Artchronika

Absence in Presence”, review of Serpentine pavillion, Artchronika

Artist as an Institution”, review of IRWIN show, Artchronika

David Shrigley. Brain Processes”, review, Artchronika (printed issue)


An Influential Agent”, review of Pablo Picasso exhibition, Artchronika

Joyful Archipelago”, short interviews with Russian artists, Artchronika


Horror and Light of Lucien Freud”, review, Artchronika

2011 – 2012

 

Series of essays, reviews and interviews at aroundart.ru blog

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