Lizaveta Matveeva

Function: Independent curator and art-critic Country: Russia Visiting period: 23 - 26 November Visiting year: 2017

She focuses on the themes of creative spaces and incubators, self-organizing art initiatives, artist-in-residencies, research based curatorial projects, social engaged art and art as a tool for community engagement. She works as a project manager in the international organization CEC ArtsLink which encourages multi-cultural collaborations between former Soviet republics, Russia and USA. She also co-curated the artist-run space LUDA gallery together with artist and curator Peter Belyi.

Besides working in these organizations Lizaveta also curates exhibitions independently in museums, galleries and self-orgaized spaces (recent shows: Dairy, Museum of Freud’s Dreams, St. Petersburg, 2017; Guises. More than Reality, State Theater Museum, St. Petersburg, 2016-2017; Shape of Unseen, Winzavod, Moscow, 2016; The New Blockheads, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2016) and advises established institutions about St. Petersburg contemporary art-scene (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; New Museum, NYC, USA). She is also one of the founders of the independent artist-run art fair in St. Petersburg, and she is currently curating the first art fair SAM Fair at the Museum of Street Art, St. Petersburg.