Team

Curators

Vera Krasnoselskaya — curator of the V–A–C public programmes. She is a historian, the former art director of the ZIL Cultural Centre and deputy director of the Sergei Kuryokhin Centre for Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg).

Stepan Ovchinnikov — curator of the GES-2 school programme, the curator and presenter of the V–A–C Cultural Practices: Non-Systemic Renewal pilot school programme (2018-2020).

Veronika Molchanova — curator of the GES-2 school programme. She is a culturologist, former teacher of cultural theory and history at the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, and a researcher at the Laboratory of Cultural Research at the Higher School of Economics National Research University.

Anastasia Korosteleva — curator of the GES-2 school programme. Has worked as a curator of the Summer Creative Lab for teens at the ZIL Cultural Centre (2018-2020) and a coordinator of the Cartoon Factory at the Great Festival of Cartoons (2018, 2019). She was a curator of The Nature of Sound experimental section at the Baikal International School.

Educators

Yulia Apanasenko — philosopher and a teacher. She has been involved in the development and teaching of the Theory of Knowledge meta-disciplinary course, and has supported research and project activities of high school students at the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics National Research University. She has collaborated with the University for Children project at the Polytechnic Museum.

Alexandra Dudarenko — culturologist and a researcher. She has supervised the anthropological activities of high school students at the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, has developed and led an art workshop for neurodiverse children, and has been involved in research work for the Shalash charity foundation.

Sergey Zykov — artist, a musician and a mediator. He has worked at the Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) and at the ZIL Cultural Centre. As a mediator, he has primarily interacted with children and teenagers, striving to make curatorial projects open to young people. A graduate of the Moscow Architectural Institute, he is currently studying at the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art.

Maria Osetyanskaya — art historian, an art therapist and a psychologist. She is the author and presenter of the GES-2 — Here It Is! programme for neurodiverse participants. She has developed and conducted tours, lectures and workshops for children and adults at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Maria is an author and a facilitator of educational courses for teenagers and adults in the Koleso Obozreniya (Ferris Wheel) inclusive project.