Teaching
My teaching practice combines contemporary art theory and practice, performance studies, languages, and communication. While these fields do not always directly overlap, each of them allows me to build expansive courses and approach the same topics from multiple perspectives.
Throughout my career at the intersection of art, curatorship, and education, I have mentored over 80 emerging artists and taught more than 200 undergraduate and graduate students as a multilingual lecturer, adapting my methods to different levels and learning contexts.
I combine a multidisciplinary approach with close, individual attention to each student. Whether an artistic statement or an essay, the work should become part of a process of reflection, questioning, and radical thinking specific to each individual.
This is especially important in my curatorial and teaching work with artists who use the human body and mind as their artistic material.
Performance Art Program at BHSAD
Performance art has long ceased to be an elitist or marginal genre, becoming part of visual culture and the language of artistic, socio-political, and existential reflection. However, its place within art education still requires sustained international dialogue and broader consensus.
As a curator and educator, I approach the genre from multiple perspectives, helping students build a solid theoretical foundation while developing the ability to translate ideas into practice. Drawing on my international experience and combined intellectual and artistic practice, I developed an innovative course on performative media aimed at reshaping approaches to art education.
In 2018, I designed and introduced a performance art course for the MFA program at the British Higher School of Art and Design. It became the first program of its kind in the country. We managed to organize and curate nine large-scale live art student exhibitions, initiate collaborations with local and international performance artists, and provided emerging artists with hands-on experience in the field.
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"A current trend in contemporary art and the gallery system is to blur the boundaries between performance art, theatre, and choreography, thereby challenging the foundational principles established by the pioneers of the genre.
In contrast, I aim to preserve and defend the specificity and independence of performance art in relation to theatre, choreography, and body-based practices. If a new language or form is being created, it should either be named accordingly or clearly defined as such."
The course is designed for practicing artists who wish to become familiar with the principles of performance art in both theory and practice. It is also relevant for curators, art historians, researchers, art managers, and professionals working in museums, galleries, and exhibition spaces who seek to deepen their understanding of live art.
The module Foundations of Performance Art addresses the distinctions between “classical” performance art and contemporary practices, the figure of the performance artist, and key issues related to the exhibition of action-based art.
The module Peculiarities of Perception explores the relationships between audience, artist, and artwork, as well as the fundamental components of performance: body, space, time, viewer, and context.
The module Fundamentals of Historiography and Typology examines the evolution and transformation of live art, key works by pioneering artists, and the ways in which marginality and radicality evolve into forms of institutional practice.
The Theory into Practice module is dedicated to complex student-led projects. The performative project includes all stages of preparation for solo presentations within a shared space.
Live Art Exhibitions
2026 - Error, British School of Art and Design
2025 - Enough, British School of Art and Design
2024 - The Norm, British School of Art and Design
2023 - Games people play, British School of Art and Design
2022 - Tales for Tomorrow, British School of Art and Design
2021 – The Needs , British School of Art and Design
2021 - The Internal question, British School of Art and Design
2019 – The Fears, British School of Art and Design
2020 – The instruction, British School of Art and Design in Moscow
2018 - Reaching Beyond, British School of Art and Design in Moscow