Tatiana Volkova

Year of birth, place
Russian Federation
Biography
Tatiana Volkova has held curatorial positions at the Tsaritsyno Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Reflex Gallery, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, and the ZHIR project, Moscow. Since 2009 she has specialized in the research and development of Russian activist art. Tatiana curated a series of exhibitions of young Russian activist artists at the ZHIR project, Moscow (Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, 2009–2010) as well as the »Silence=Death« exhibition (Artplay Centre, Moscow, 2012). Since 2011 Tatiana has been an initiator and one of the moderators of the MediaImpact Festival of Activist Art that has been held in Moscow and other Russian cities, such as Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Saint Petersburg. She has written for exhibition catalogs, books, and the Web and given a course of lectures on Russian activist art.

[Last update: August 2015]