the project is supported by SPIN
Supporting Principal Investigators 2024
PROJECT TEAM
Olga ALTER
art historian and art critic, currently visiting researcher at the University of Trento (Italy)
specializes in contemporary Russian art and Russian Palladian architecture. Author of the UNESCO World Heritage List nomination “Historic Centre of Torzhok and Estate Architecture of Nikolai Lvov”
Editor, Researcher:
researcher:
- working on compiling a chronicle
Giovanni ARGAN
PhD student at Ca' Foscari University,
employee of the Center for the Study of Russian Culture
(Ca' Foscari)
areas of research: socialist realism, art and the cold war, contemporary art
researcher:
- worked with artists:
Danila BULATOV
art historian and curator. In 2011–2021
He worked as a research fellow at the Pushkin Museum (Moscow)
Curated a number of exhibitions, including an international exhibition project
Facing the Future. Art of Europe 1945–1968 (Brussels, Karlsruhe, Moscow). From 2021 to 2022, he was chief curator at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Moscow), and since 2022 he has been writing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Münster (WWU Münster)
Anna BUALI
Art historian, lecturer
Director of the Society for the Promotion of Art, and Curator at the Film and Media Arts Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
director of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts, worked as a curator in the film department
and Media Arts of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
researcher:
Silvia BURINI
Director of the Center for the Study of Russian Art.
(Ca' Foscari)
Professor of the History of Russian Art
and contemporary art at Ca' Foscari, Venice
Project Manager, Researcher:
- worked with artists:
AES+F
researcher, translator:
- worked with artists:
Sergey Kishchenko
Maria GATTI RAKAH
Ph.D., teacher of Russian language and translation, subject expert at Ca' Foscari University,
employee of the Center for the Study of Russian Culture
(Ca' Foscari)
scientific interests are mainly focused on the cultural history of Russian emigration, the construction of historical and political narratives in the Soviet and post-Soviet context, and Russian-Jewish relations
Julia GELMI
PhD student at Ca' Foscari University,
employee of the Center for the Study of Russian Culture
(Ca' Foscari)
areas of scientific interests: history of ornament as a marker of national artistic identity, history of Russian style at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
researcher, translator:
designer, researcher:
- worked with artists:
Anastasia KOZACHENKO-STRAVINSKAYA
PhD student at Ca' Foscari University,
employee of the Center for the Study of Russian Culture
(Ca' Foscari)
scientific interests: sound art, contemporary art, the problem of national identity in the context of the dialogue of cultures, founder of the Stravinsky Family Fund
Arseniy PETROV
art historian and art critic, visiting researcher at the University of Trento (Italy)
specializes in contemporary Russian art, as well as cultural ties between Byzantium, Venice and medieval Rus'. Certified expert in the field of fine arts.
editor, researcher, author of articles:
- worked with artists:
Andrey Kuzkin , Pavel Otdelnov , Sergey Prokofiev
- author of articles:
researcher, translator:
Maria REDAELLI
Ph.D., research fellow and teacher
at the Faculty of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice
collaborates with the Center for Russian Cultural Studies (CSAR), coordinating the scientific secretariat. Her main research interests concern media art, the relationship between art and science, and contemporary artistic practices in the post-Soviet space.
Olga SHISHKO
art historian, curator, specialist in the field of new media art and video art.
Founder of the Center for Culture and Art "MediaArtLab", founder and director of the Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival. Ex-curator of the "Pushkin XXI" direction of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Curator of numerous large-scale exhibitions, including Journey of the Soul. Bill Viola (2021, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), At the End Resides the Beginning. The Secret Brotherhood of Tintoretto (2019, Venice, special project of the Pushkin XXI), Man as a Bird. Images of Travel (2017, 57th Venice Biennale
Project Manager, Researcher:
- She worked with the artists:
Semyon Alexandrovsky, Vladimir Kartashov,