EDUCATION:
- 2026-2027
- Scenography programme, British Higher School of Art and Design (BHSAD). Online
- Apr-Aug 2026
- Director's workshop with Vsevolod Lisovsky, Berlin. Theatre of quantum entanglement: new utopias and new models of performance. Premiere: August 2026
- Mar 2026
- A 5-day scenography laboratory, Riga
- 2016-2018
- MA, Art History
- 2010-2015
- BA, Art History
CURRENT PROJECTS:
- The Inhabited Form - site-specific installation proposal for IPS 2026 (OISTAT Romania). A closed cylinder on the shore of Lake Siutghiol: a collective studio-archive activated by natural light.
- The Tempest - scenographic and directorial concept for Shakespeare's play reimagined as an insect opera. In development.
- Artists' Studios as Scenic Space - ongoing research. The studio as a total work of art: Brancusi, Schwitters, and the scenography of creative process.
- Kharbin - documentary theatre project based on a personal family archive. Memory, migration to China after the Bolshevik Revolution, displacement. In development.
SELECTED PROJECTS:
- 2026
- Munchausen - scenographic and directorial concept. A spatial system based on the Wunderkammer and the fachwerk timber modules as transforming stage architecture.
- 2025
- Cabinet of Curiosities - object-based scenographic environment within a wider revitalisation of Bisumuiza Manor. Riga, Latvia.
- 2025
- Someone Else's Dacha - revival of a classical Baltic wooden dacha (early 20th c.) as a site-specific creative space. Set design and scenography of environment. Jurmala, Latvia.
- 2024
- The Food Research Institute - media research project on intangible culinary heritage across post-Soviet regions. Chief editor. Shortlisted, Editor's Project of the Year 2025.
- 2014-2016
- Apple Road - cross-border heritage project supported by the British Council within the UK-Russia Year of Culture. Curator.
- 2014-2015
- Kolomna: A Taste of History - mobile app and audio promenade through a historic quarter of Kolomna. Concept author, writer and producer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 2022-current
- Independent researcher and cultural producer. Site-specific projects at the intersection of heritage, media, and performance.
- 2018-2022
- Chief editor, programme manager for Level One, Moscow. Educational programmes in art and culture developed with museum professionals, curators, and art historians.
- 2014-2017
- Researcher, curator, producer. Museum cluster Kolomensky Posad, Kolomna. Museum theatre, immersive formats, audio promenades, and museum theatre tours in the UK.
AREAS OF PRACTICE:
- Site-specific scenography; the museum as stage; collection as dramaturgy; space as carrier of memory; documentary theatre.
MEMBERSHIPS:
- Museums Association (UK)