THERE IS NOTHING THAT CANNOT BE STOLEN FROM AN ARTIST – THAT IS, IF HE IS A TRUE ARTIST. YOU COULD STEAL, LET'S SAY, A GOLD WATCH FROM AN ARTIST. EXCEPT, OF COURSE, GOLD WATCHES RARELY BELONG TO TRUE ARTISTS. SAMUIL MARSHAK
A-I-R PROGRAM NEWS

30 OCTOBER – 30 NOVEMBER / 2018

METASITU is a research-based art practice based in Kiev and Athens, abusing urbanism discourses and developing new tools to empower individuals in the way they relate to the territory.

Founded in 2014 by Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina, METASITU was born with the goal of establishing emancipatory narratives around the way we inhabit space, targeting wider audiences than traditional architectural/urbanism circles. METASITU’s work is centered on different formats of knowledge exchange and developing new tools for understanding the urban condition today for a queerer tomorrow.

Through the curation of urbanism festivals, directing educational programs, enabling real estate transgressions, proposing workshops, performing lectures and disseminating videos, METASITU opens up new discursive lines, by involving different actors into challenging spatial narratives. METASITU strives for a world of horizontal hegemonies, borderlessness and borderlands, guided by our curiosity and urgency.

More info: http://www.metasitu.com

At ZARYA AiR, Liva and Eduardo are going to develop and present their project DeGrowth that deals with an issue of cities with declining population.

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Lyokha G. (Alexey Krutkin, b. 1983) is an artist and a musician from Vladivostok. He is a head of the Ceasar and Tripod Studio and Fashion Wierdo project. He is also known as a poet and songwriter Lyonya Chelushkinsky and a founder of Bio Via Ai Ji music band, as well as the chief artist at Contrabanda Club, Vladivostok.

Lyokha G. is well known with his so-called "fakes" ("poddelki") that are miniature sculptures made of found objects, mostly discarded toys. He presented his solo show at Arka Gallery, Vladivostok, in 2017. Lyokha G. was a participant of such group exhibitions as Tradegy at the Corner (The Museum of Moscow, 2018), Beside to the Gods (ARTIS Gallery, Moscow, 2017), Rebels at the Edge (MMOMA, 2017, Erarta Museum, 2016, ZARYA CCA, 2015).

More info on artist: https://biovia.jimdo.com

OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 4 / ZARYA AiR STUDIO (ENTRANCE 5)

On October 27, from 12:00 pm until 5:00 pm at the Zarya AiR studio (Zarya Factory, Central Repair Workshop, Entrance 5) there will be a reception to mark the opening of the exhibition “From Your Morning to My Night”, which surveys the works of residency participant Anastasia Ryabova (Moscow.) Admission is free of charge, but the age is limited to 18+. The exhibition will be on view until November 4, but to visit after the opening, you will need to first contact the reception desk.

Anastasia Ryabova will present a series of works on paper produced during her stay in Vladivostok. Over the past two months, she has methodically created drawings in oil pastel, as a kind of daily ritual informed by the artist’s interest in erotic mysteries. She sees her own working method as closely tied to the legacy of Surrealism, experimenting with its new political reading.

The very act of creating a drawing interests the artist as a process. “Since childhood, I have thought of drawing as a form of resistance to the order of things,” Ryabova remarks. “And when professional obligations come flooding in, it makes for the perfect ally in this innocent rebellion. If everyone’s life was woven from practices like dance or drawing, then people would have never needed to invent the word ‘procrastination.’”

The exhibition’s title was inspired by correspondence between the artist and her colleagues located in a very different time zone, nearly seven hours away from Vladivostok, so that it’s always a challenge to grasp that it’s morning there, but night here. The exhibition will officially open at noon with musical sets from artists and DJs Phaumer (Vladivostok), NOfuture (Kasia Wolinska, Berlin), Golde (Kirill Kryuchkov, Vladivostok), and Workpop (Vladivostok). As Ryabova says, “the event is not really planned, but rather left spontaneous, with all the characteristic features of this type of format. As with any impulse, the equipment will be turned up to the top volume and the world will be turned on its head. No one will understand anymore where there is dancing and where there is drawing.”

Both events are held with the support of Night Movement, which was co-founded by Ryabova.

The exhibition will be on view until November 4, but to visit after the opening, you will need to first contact the reception desk.

* Anastasia Ryabova (born 1985) is an artist, teacher and researcher living and working in Moscow. In addition to her practice, she curates exhibitions, publishing and educational projects and writes critical essays on contemporary art and architecture. In 2011, she was recognized with the Kandinsky Prize for “Media Art: Project of the Year.” She is the founder of the Academy of Whistling Through Tears. Since 2013, she has worked on the project Zvezdniy Prospekt (2013 – ). That same year, she became the initiator and editor of Zadachnik, a publication about the city and political calculus. She is the author and curator of the archive Artists’ Private Collections (2010 – ). She curated the exhibition “False Calculation Presidium” in 2012 and founded the online magazines, megazine.biz (2009) and Night Movement (2015 –). Additionally, in 2013, she has participated in the exhibition action “>10” (2013). She is the co- author of the manual Introduction to the Profession of the 21st Century (2017).

OCTOBER 27, 2018 / 6+

On October 27 at 6:00 pm, the ZARYA CCA library and screening hall will host the presentation of the results of the art residency of Kasia Wolinska (Berlin) and Rafał Dominik (Warsaw). The artists will introduce the multidisciplinary project, Gravediggers, which draws on contemporary choreography, sculpture and video art. Immediately following the presentation will be a conversation with the artists, with a simultaneous translation from English to Russian. Admission is free of charge, for ages 6+.

The Berlin-based choreographer Kasia Wolinska has long been interested in bridging sculpture and dance and in exploring the ways that choreography can express the concepts of form and space so inextricably linked to the medium of sculpture. In her performance for the ZARYA art residency program, Wolinska turns to sculpture of the Neolithic era. Meanwhile, her colleague and collaborator, Polish sculptor Rafał Dominik looks to the architecture of Russian Modernism.

This project is closely connected to the theory of the body as an archive, a concept that Wolinska develops in her work as a choreographic theorist. This is precisely where the title – Gravediggers – arises. It refers to the body's ability to store historical memory, to preserve the ideas invested within it in the previous eras, and to serve as a tool for cultural archaeology.

Wolinska describes the impetus for the project as such: “Departing from the desire to virtually reconstruct the most famous pyramid in Russia we dive into the complex web of material histories and appropriations. In our collaboration, we seek the intersections and possible artistic bridging between sculpture and choreography. The monumentalism of forms that inhabit our collective memories and thrive through times become qualities to be reproduced and played with through dance, 3D sculpture and video art. In the creation of tangible (sculpture) and ephemeral (dance) objects, we want to blur well-defined temporalities of historic(al) and artistic matters and speculate on the futurism of the Monumental. We explore the performative potential of shapes, carvings, and spatial relations in order to propose an inter-medial choreography that mobilizes the alive and the (un)dead.”

ZARYA AiR would like to express gratitude to the curator and researcher of contemporary dance, Anastasia Proshutinskaya, for her assistance and expert evaluation during the art residency’s 5 th Open Call in 2017 Kasia Wolinska and Rafał Dominik would also like to thank the philanthropic organizations, Gdansk City of Freedom and the Institut Adama Mickiewicza for their support of the artists’ participation in the ZARYA AiR program.

*Kasia Wolinska (b.1990, Gdansk, Poland) is a graduate of the Dance Department at Music Academy, Łódź, Cultural Anthropology Department at University of Łódź and Dance, Context, Choreography Program at HZT Berlin. Dancewebber 2015 Since January 2013 she's been developing her practice Hi Mary that was presented in Berlin, Gdańsk, Łódź,Norberg, New York, Warsaw, Kalisz, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. She's been a Centro Selva resident in 2014 and transeuropa Festival in 2015 in 2016 she was a part of the Global Practice Sharing Program ( Movement Research/ Art Stations Foundation) in New York. Her recent work develops at the intersection of choreography and sculpture. She runs a blog danceisaweapon.com. For more info, please visit: http://kasiawolinska.weebly.com/

Rafał Dominik (b.1985, Warsaw, Poland) graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma supervised by Leon Tarasewicz, 2009). He creates animated films, digital paintings, collages and videos, devises ‘domestic scale’ sculptures and 3D interactive objects. In his constant exploration of pop culture, Rafał Dominik’s work exhibits the artist’s fascination with mass consumption’s influence on visual culture, an influence that was particularly strong in Poland after the fall of the Berlin wall. The artist also sources a lot of his inspiration from the visual aspects of new technologies which we encounter every day in virtual reality. He has exhibited in the most important contemporary art institutions in Poland, most recently at the Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Galeria Arsenał in Białystok and the BWA in Katowice. He has also realized commissions for private firms, such as Mercedes Benz Poland, and ING Polish Art Foundation.

20 ОКТЯБРЯ / 17:00 / КИНОЗАЛ / 16+

В ЦСИ «Заря» состоится встреча с участником программы арт-резиденции Касей Волинской (Берлин), которая занимается современным искусством танца. На лекции она расскажет о своем профессиональном подходе на примере реализованных проектов. Лекция будет проходить с последовательным переводом с английского.

В своей лекции Волинска расскажет о понимании тела как архива и вместилища памяти, а также о теле как о памятнике. Будучи «сферой» влияния разнообразных идеологий, тело в истории современности было переосмыслено и переформировано. Рассказать об этих изменениях через вопросы тела означает затронуть множественные уровни предписаний и значений, которые его составляют. В этом контексте художница рассматривает танец как метод активации и восстановления, который имел культурное значение на протяжении многих столетий.

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*Кася Волинска (р. 1990, Гданьск, Польша) живет и работает в Берлине. Она окончила хореографическое отделение Музыкальной академии в г. Лодзь, отделение культурной антропологии в Университете Лодзь и программу «Танец, контекст, хореография» в HZT, Берлин. Стипендиат danceWeb 2015 года. С января 2013 года разрабатывает проект «Hi Mary», который был представлен в Берлине, Гданьске, Лодзе, Норберге, Нью-Йорке, Варшаве и других городах. Резидент Centro Selva в 2014 году и Фестиваля transeuropa в 2015 году. В 2016 году приняла участие в программе Global Practice Sharing (Исследование движения / Art Stations Foundation) в Нью-Йорке. Ее последние работы разрабатывают взаимосвязь между хореографией и скульптурой. Автор блога danceisaweapon.com.

Подробнее: http://kasiawolinska.weebly.com/

КАСЯ ВОЛИНСКА (3 - 31 ОКТЯБРЯ 2018) / РАФАЛЬ ДОМИНИК (23 ОКТЯБРЯ - 31 ОКТЯБРЯ 2018)

Кася Волинска (Kasia Wolinska, р. 1990, Гданьск, Польша) живет и работает в Берлине. Она окончила хореографическое отделение Музыкальной академии в г. Лодзь, отделение культурной антропологии в Университете Лодзь и программу «Танец, контекст, хореография» в HZT, Берлин. Стипендиат danceWeb 2015 года. С января 2013 года разрабатывает проект «Hi Mary», который был представлен в Берлине, Гданьске, Лодзе, Норберге, Нью-Йорке, Варшаве и других городах. Резидент Centro Selva в 2014 году и Фестиваля transeuropa в 2015 году. В 2016 году приняла участие в программе Global Practice Sharing (Исследование движения / Art Stations Foundation) в Нью-Йорке.

Ее последние работы разрабатывают взаимосвязь между хореографией и скульптурой. Автор блога danceisaweapon.com.

Подробнее: http://kasiawolinska.weebly.com/

Рафаль Доминик (Rafał Dominik, р. 1985, Варшава, Польша) окончил факультет живописи в Варшавской Академии изобразительных искусств (профессор Леон Тарасевич, 2009). Рафаль создает анимацию, цифровую живопись, коллажи и видео, разрабатывает скульптуры "бытового масштаба" и интерактивные 3D-объекты. В своем постоянном исследовании поп-культуры Рафаль Доминик в своих работах раскрывает свое увлечение темой влияния массового потребения на визуальную культуру - влияния, которое особенно ярко проявилось в Польше после падения Берлинской стены. Художник также вдохновляется визуальными аспектами новых технологий, с которыми мы ежедневно сталкиваемся в виртуальной реальности. Он представлял свои работы в таких крупных художественных институциях Польши, как Государственная художественная галерея Zachęta, Варшавский музей современного искусства, Galeria Arsenał в Белостоке и BWA в Катовице. Он также принимал участие в создании коммерческих видео для Mercedes Benz Poland, ING Polish Art Foundation и других.

Итогом пребывания художников в арт-резиденции «Заря» станет перформанс, обращающийся к возможности взаимодействия хореографии и скульптуры.

1214 ОКТЯБРЯ / 11:00–18:00 / 18+

Участница арт-резиденции «Заря» Татьяна Эфрусси проведет индивидуальные перформативные прогулки к морю, 12, 13 и 14 октября. Художница приглашает принять участие в презентации ее проекта «Э. Ю. Я. Дорога к морю», основанном на личных воспоминаниях ее деда.

Проект «Э. Ю. Я. Дорога к морю» предлагает зрителю опыт совместного путешествия с художницей через физическое пространство района Второй речки и нарративное пространство воспоминаний ее деда. Арестованный в 1937-м году в Ленинграде, инженер Яков Исаакович Эфрусси в 1939-м оказался во владивостокском пересыльном лагере на Моргородке – том самом, где погиб Осип Мандельштам. Как и тысячи других арестованных «врагов народа», он был вскоре переправлен из Владивостока в трюме парома в Магадан. Яков Исаакович смог пережить год на Колыме, а потом его вызвали в Москву работать в лаборатории заключенных специалистов.

Проект «Э. Ю. Я. Дорога к морю» Татьяны Эфрусси – это не столько документальная, сколько поэтическая работа. Это не реконструкция, а интерпретация, где через проживание ландшафта художница связывает семейную историю с собственным, в том числе женским, опытом. Она говорит: «Мы идём к морю через закоулки сексуальности и гаражи агрессии; находим в раковине не жемчужину, но гильзу».

Индивидуальные прогулки состоятся 12, 13 и 14 октября каждый час с 11:00 до 18:00 (с перерывом в 14:00), длительность составит 45 минут. Маршрут начинается от ЦСИ «Заря». В каждой прогулке может участвовать только один человек. Рекомендуем брать удобную обувь. Записаться на прогулку можно на сервисе Timepad (https://art-rezidentsiya-zarya.timepad.ru/event/828762/) или по телефону 8(423)231-71-00.

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*Татьяна Эфрусси (р. 1988) художница и историк архитектуры. В настоящее время обучается в Национальной высшей школе изящных искусств в Париже и является докторантом Кассельского университета (Германия), где работает над диссертацией «Ханнес Майер советский архитектор». В последние годы участвовала в таких выставках, как «Birobizhan/Биробиджан. Художественное исследование Еврейской Автономной области» (Биробиджанская областная филармония, 2017), «Нельзя быть слишком осторожным» (ЦЭХ, Минск, 2017), «Eccentric Values after Eisenstein» (совместно с Еленой Вогман, пространство Diaphanes, Берлин, 2018), «Эскапизм. Тренинговая программа» (ЦТИ «Фабрика», Москва, 2018). Курировала выставки и инициативы: «Баухаус в Москве» (галерея «Вхутемас», Москва, 2012), «Час Ш» (самоорганизованная, 2014), «Кому это надо» (совместно с Марийкой Семененко, галерея Сколково, Москва, 2015). Живет и работает в Париже, Берлине и Москве. Автор научных статей по истории архитектуры. Участница художественно-экономического объединения «Летучая кооперация».

Zarya Center for Contemporary Art and the Zarya Foundation for the Development of Contemporary Art announced the recipients of the international exchange research grant program Contact Zones: Far East, after an open call for proposals launched in June 2018. The recipients of the grant, who will be able to carry out their projects in one of the partner institutions in Asia, are two Russian researchers: curator Daria Bogdanova (Vladivostok) and artist, curator and researcher Nikolay Smirnov (Moscow). The two applicants from China who will take part in Zarya CCA's residency are curators Cosmin Costinas (Hong Kong) and Jue Jade Ma (Shanghai).

The program is designed to further encourage the research and self-identification of the Far East region with its unique geographical and historical features, and develop cultural exchange and cooperation between Russia and the Far East countries. A special emphasis is put on engagement with the local cultural context.

The research project of Daria Bogdanova, a designer and curator from Vladivostok, will take place in November 2018 at the residency of one of the partner institutions, the HOW Art Museum in Shanghai. The project is aimed at working with the historical heritage of the city and the formation of a high-quality and diverse urban environment.

“My research is based on the phenomenon of portside cities such as Shanghai and Vladivostok, their geographical openness and sometimes forced political isolation,” Daria Bogdanova explains. “I’m interested in the impact of the paradox of a space that is both closed and open at the same time, as well as on the development of the artistic and creative life of such cities.”

In autumn of 2019, another partner institution – Para Site CCA, Hong Kong – will welcome Russian artist and curator Nikolay Smirnov who will present his research project dedicated to speculative space-time on the Eastern edge of Eurasia. The formation of the narrative will be based on two fictional narratives of 1897 and 1915, both in the ‘future war’ genre and set in Vladivostok and Hong Kong, as well as on the speculative-eschatological space-time of the Russian Orthodox who settled in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s.

“I plan to form a narrative about the speculative cultural structures of the region, described from a future or imaginary space, and including examples from the past that look today like the precursors of a modern recursive way of thinking,” Nikolay Smirnov says. “This narrative, which I plan to perform at the end of my stay in Hong Kong, will be equally based on research, theoretical generalizations and artistic intuition"

In exchange, in October of 2018 the art residency of Zarya Center for Contemporary Art will welcome Cosmin Costinas, Curator and Executive Director of Para Site CCA, who will participate in the performative symposium “Towards a New Politics of the Geographical Imagination”; and in November it will welcome Jue Jade Ma, Curator of the HOW Art Museum with her project “The City with Two Names”. The artist will focus on analyzing connotations and context of the emergence of two Chinese names for Vladivostok: Fúlādíwòstītuōkè (符 拉迪沃斯 托克) and Hǎishēnwǎi (海参崴).

“My research simultaneously explores two ‘cultural layers’ of Vladivostok: the heritage of the Chinese people and the contemporary art scene. These two interpretations of the history of Vladivostok will serve as a starting point for my research,” states Jue Jade Ma. “I think that my research will be presented in the form of travel notes and lecture material, which will form the basis for my future research and curatorial practice in Northeast Asia.”

The topic of the region's self-identification is critical for the research and exhibition activities of the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art. Important elements of the exhibition season for 2018-2019 are the forthcoming performative symposium “Towards a New Politics of the Geographical Imagination”, which will take place on October 7–9, 2018, spanning the openings of the exhibitions “One Northeast” (07.10.2018-16.12.2018) and “Metageography” (10.10.2018-13.01.2019), and incorporating participants and specialists from both projects, as well as specially invited guests. Together, the three events – the two openings and the symposium – make up their own international mini-biennale, dedicated to the practice and politics of geographical imagination..

As part of the program, the participants will receive accommodation at the partner institution, along with administrative and informational support, and the reimbursement of the airfare, visa fees and travel insurance. Russian participants also receive a grant of 65,000 RUB.

About the winners:

Daria Bogdanova (Vladivostok) graduated from the Vladivostok State University Economics and Service with a degree in environmental design. She has been collaborating with the V.K. Arsenyev Primorsky State Museum as a designer and curator of projects since 2008. Engagement with the historical heritage of the city and the formation of a high-quality, diverse urban environment are the main themes of her projects over the past 10 years.

Nikolay Smirnov (Moscow) works as an artist, geographer, curator and researcher exploring spatial practices and representations of space and place in art, science, museum practice and everyday life. His practice is aimed at the analysis and implementation of complex narratives in the form of text, exhibition and film.

Cosmin Costinas (Hong Kong) is the Executive Director of Para Site CCA since 2011. He studied art history and history at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He currently works with such magazines as Idea Arts+Society, Cluj and Version, Paris/Cluj, as well as acts as an expert for Patterns/Erste Foundation, Vienna. From 2005-2007, he was one of the editors of the Documenta Magazine project (part of the Documenta-12 exhibition, Kassel). He was the visiting curator of the Dakar Biennial 2018, co-author of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial of contemporary art (2010). He has participated in the organization of more than 20 exhibitions at Para Site, BAK Netherlands, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has contributed his writing to prestigious magazines, books, and exhibition catalogues across the world. He acts as a teacher and lecturer at different universities and art academies around the globe.

Jue Jade Ma (Shanghai) is the Curator of the HOW Art Museum. She graduated from the Peking University with the bachelors degree in film production and media studies, and then continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a masters degree in art management. As a researcher, she is primarily interested in the features of intercultural interaction and social practice in art. As a curator and initiator, she has participated in such exhibitions, as "MANIFESTO: Julian Rosefeldt" (2017), "Lettres du Voyant: Joseph Beuys × Nam June Paik" (2018), and "ACCULTURATION, INCULTURATION, TRANSCULTURATION: Chinese Art in the U.S. Across Generations" (2015). She is a contributor to Afterimage, Art Monthly Magazine, and Scope Yishuke.

30 СЕНТЯБРЯ / 17:00 / ЧИТАЛЬНЫЙ ЗАЛ

В Центре современного искусства «Заря» пройдет приветственная лекция участницы арт-резиденции Татьяны Эфрусси, художница расскажет о методе дополненной археологии и покажет свои проекты.

Этот метод видит мир историзированно – как руину, которую «поэт» романитизирует, «ученый» исследует, а «обитатель» перестраивает и достраивает ради своего удобства. Маневрируя между этими ролями, она стремится поэтизировать и политизировать прошлое, сделав его активным инструментом воздействия на настоящее и будущее. На лекции Татьяна также представит проект, над которым она будет работать в резиденции.

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* Татьяна Эфрусси (р. 1988) — художница и историк архитектуры. В настоящее время обучается в Национальной высшей школе изящных искусств в Париже и является докторантом Кассельского университета (Германия), где работает над диссертацией «Ханнес Майер — советский архитектор». В последние годы участвовала в таких выставках, как «Birobizhan/Биробиджан. Художественное исследование Еврейской Автономной области»Биробиджан. Художественное исследование Еврейской Автономной области» (Биробиджанская областная филармония, 2017), «Нельзя быть слишком осторожным» (ЦЭХ, Минск, 2017), «Eccentric Values after Eisenstein» (совместно с Еленой Вогман, пространство Diaphanes, Берлин, 2018), «Эскапизм. Тренинговая программа» (ЦТИ «Фабрика», Москва, 2018). Курировала выставки и инициативы: «Баухаус в Москве» (галерея «Вхутемас», Москва, 2012), «Час Ш» (самоорганизованная, 2014), «Кому это надо» (совместно с Марийкой Семененко, галерея Сколково, Москва, 2015). Живет и работает в Париже, Берлине и Москве. Автор научных статей по истории архитектуры. Участница художественно-экономического
объединения «Летучая кооперация».

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Татьяна Эфрусси (р. 1988) художница и историк архитектуры. В настоящее время обучается в Национальной высшей школе изящных искусств в Париже и является докторантом Кассельского университета (Германия), где работает над диссертацией «Ханнес Майер — советский архитектор». В последние годы участвовала в таких выставках, как «Birobizhan/Биробиджан. Художественное исследование Еврейской Автономной области» (Биробиджанская областная филармония, 2017), «Нельзя быть слишком осторожным» (ЦЭХ, Минск, 2017), «Eccentric Values after Eisenstein» (совместно с Еленой Вогман, пространство Diaphanes, Берлин, 2018), «Эскапизм. Тренинговая программа» (ЦТИ «Фабрика», Москва, 2018). Курировала выставки и инициативы: «Баухаус в Москве» (галерея «Вхутемас», Москва, 2012), «Час Ш» (самоорганизованная, 2014), «Кому это надо» (совместно с Марийкой Семененко, галерея Сколково, Москва, 2015). Живет и работает в Париже, Берлине и Москве. Автор научных статей по истории архитектуры. Участница художественно-экономического объединения «Летучая кооперация».