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2025

 

Neo-Feudalist Aesthetics — entry in Prospective Lexicon, Sternberg Press

 

2024

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The Sun Storehouse: Wetlands Between Death Drive and Libidinal Excess —  ecopsycoanalytical essay, Kunstlicht journal [upcoming]

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Techno-Lords and User-Serfs — review of Poetics of Encryption at KW, Berlin Art Link

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: A Promise of Queer/Feminist Revolution in Little Joe: A Book about Queers and Cinema, Mostlu, SPBH editions

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2023

Reconnaissance Art Report by Chief Curator of Artificial Intelligentsia  — short dystopia, This is Badland No. 6

From Every Depth of Good and Ill — review of steirischer herbst ʼ23, Spike Magazine No. 77

The Re-Enterable Doors — essay for Comm-Sui exhibition, KuLe, Berlin

Aesthetics of Coercion. On Neo-Feudalism in Contemporary Art — essay, Spike Magazine

London, Goodbye. Desire for the West in Russian-language Music — research on pop-culture in Beda media

To Perform Amidst the Ruins of the Empire — 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

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2022

Solo Performance as Pride  — obituary for queer icon Boris Moiseev [rus]

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022 (and Beyond) — report, Flash Art

 

Cartography of Masculinities — essay on gender politics of the 2010s in Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous Anthology [rus]

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2021

The Exquisite Corpse of Modernism — essay on differentiation between "left" and "right" aesthetics, Portal / Syg.ma

 

Is Music the Most A-gender Art? — essay on gendering of music at srsly [rus]

Stepping Twice into the River — essay on reconstruction exhibitions, Russian Art Focus

Closed Fish Exhibition at Voznesensky Cultural Center — review, Springerin

Fatally Cancelled by Ebay — speculative and fictional essay on the parcelisation of sovereignty by transnational corporations

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2020

Oh, That’s How Things Always Used to Be and That’s How They Will Stay — 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 — essay on neocolonial mythology of Natura Siberica brand [rus]

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

Sort and Rule — essay on depolitisation by ecological agenda [rus]

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

Due Diligence: on Ideology of Museum Security — essay in Centre for Experimental Museology anthology

 

The Human Condition – Session V: Teleology of the Human. Biography, Destiny, Hope, Faith at MMoMA — review for Camera Austria

Digital Feudalism of the Bat — dystopia on coronavirus [rus]

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2019

The Non-Conformists. The Story of a Russian Collection — entries for the exhibition catalogue, Silvana / MOCO

Agency of Singular Investigations: Flower Power Archive at MMoMA Review at MMoMA, Camera Austria

 

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

Under Western Eyes — essay on (de)colonisation in art criticism, Paper Visual Art Journal

The Animacy of Matter — essay on Nikita Kadan and Anastasia Potemkina, Laura Bulian Gallery

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2018

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Review on Edward Steichen's Delphiniums — essay, the Centre of Experimental Museology

steirischer herbst — report, Flash Art Online

NEMOSKVA — report, Flash Art Online

Unfree Love — essay on sex and love in the age of dating apps, sygma [rus]

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More — review, Flash Art Online

If Our Soup Could Speak… Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties at Garage — review, Springerin, 2/2018

Transmediale 31 at HKW — review, Flash Art Online

 

Image Diplomacy at MMoMA — review, Flash Art Online

 

Naturgeschichten at MUMOK — review, Springerin, 1/2018 [eng/ger]

2017

 

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

 

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

Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism at HKW — review, Flash Art No. 317

Artist Studios in the Dialectics of Re-skilling and Deskilling — essay in Nepokorennie Group Catalogue, MMoMA

Sexual Revolution As a Symptom Of Capitalism? — essay in Kharkiv Gender Studies Journal

Communicative Failures and Defeats — essay in the catalogue How to Gather: Acting Relations, Mapping Positions pub. by M HKA and V-A-C

Moscow Diaries at MMoMA — review, Flash Art No. 316

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Betrayed Revolution; or the Nineties Did Not Exist, essay, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]


Geometry of Now at GES-2 — review, Flash Art Online​​

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2016

 

The Penetrated Body — essay in Deep Inside catalogue of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, ed. by Nadim Samman

The Unaccountable Youth — report on Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at Flash Art Online

Fungofetish and Fungocene: a Call to Sporulate — manifesto, Moscow Art Magazine No. 99 [rus]

When the Artist Speaks — essay on lecture performance, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]

Import/Export: Theses on Cultural Self-Sustainment — essay/manifesto, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]

Digital Present Against Other Temporalities — essay on Berlin Biennale, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]

Evgeny Granilshchikov at Multimedia Art Museum — review, Flash Art No. 308

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Human Commonalities at Vadim Sidur Museum — review, Flash Art No. 311

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Narrative Devices — essay on DIS/Babak Redboy videos, Aperto No. 2

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2015

 

Turtle-Shell: Towards The Critical Object-Oriented Theory — essay in Hybridize or Disappear, Mousse Publishing, ed. by João Laia


The Lawfulness and Lawlessness of Voice — essay on Rana Hamadeh, Moscow Biennale Blog

Us and Them, Here and There, Now and Then — essay on Stina Östberg
 

Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum — review, Flash Art


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

So Different, So Appealing — essay on Robert Hamilton, Iskusstvo Journal No. 3

 

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: A Promise of Queer/Feminist Revolution — essay, Little Joe No. 5
 

What Did the Artist Mean By That? — catalogue entries, ed. by Ekaterina Degot, MMoMA
 

Art Speech: What Is Lecture Performance? — short interviews with Robert Morris, Guillaume Dessange, Hito Steyerl etc., Theory&Practice [rus]


The Voice that Keeps Silence — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 94 [rus]


Natural-Digital Chiasmus — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 96 [rus]

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2014

Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts — essay, ArtLeaks Gazette No. 2

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Enjoy to the Extreme: Sex in Contemporary Art — text, Theory & Practice [rus]

2013

 

Discursive Interventions into Russian Art — essay on pedagogical turn, Frieze blog

Reference for Medinsky: What Is Contemporary Art — response to the Russian Minister of Culture, Lookatme

Through the Laser Field — essay on Hito Steyerl's film Guards, Svilova gallery
 

Former West: Ruptures in Infrastructure — review, IDEA
 

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

2013 — Year In Russia and Abroad: Art Against the State — commentary for LookAtMe [rus]

Art Speech — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 92 [rus]

Meta-artists as Quasi-curators — essay co-authored with Anna Ilchenko, Opcje journal

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2012

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Series of reviews for Artchronika Magazine:

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

 

Omnipresent Dots of Kusama — review


Alighiero and Boetti — review

Anti-art for the Sake of Anti-art — review of Turner Prize

A Shop of Amazing Objects — review of Frieze art fair

Absence in Presence — review of Serpentine Pavilion

Artist as Institution — review of IRWIN

David Shrigley. Brain Processes — review


An Influential Agent — review of Pablo Picasso

Joyful Archipelago — interviews


Horror and Light of Lucien Freud — review

 

2011 – 2012

 

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

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