2026
Neo-Feudalist Aesthetics — dictionary entry in Prospective Lexicon, Sternberg Press
2025
On Mechanophilia; or Art’s Love of Cars — essay on aestheticisation of automobility, Spike
The Sun Storehouse: Wetlands Between Death Drive and Libidinal Excess — ecopsychoanalytic essay, Vol. 45, no. 3/4 The Swamp Potential in Kunstlicht journal
2024
Trapped in the White Cube — review of Forgive Us Our Trespasses at HKW, Berlin Art Link
Techno-Lords and User-Serfs — review of Poetics of Encryption at KW, Berlin Art Link
Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: A Promise of Queer/Feminist Revolution in Little Joe: A Book about Queers and Cinema, Mostly, SPBH editions
2023
Reconnaissance Art Report by Chief Curator of Artificial Intelligentsia — short dystopia, This is Badland No. 6
From Every Depth of Good and Ill — review of steirischer herbst ʼ23, Spike Magazine No. 77
The Re-Enterable Doors — essay for Comm-Sui exhibition, KuLe, Berlin
Aesthetics of Coercion. On Neo-Feudalism in Contemporary Art — essay, Spike
London, Goodbye. Desire for the West in Russian-language Music — research on pop-culture in Beda media
To Perform Amidst the Ruins of the Empire — essay on Keti Chukhrov’s video-performance
Sexual and Gender Dissent: Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Georgy Guryanov in Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance, Academic Studies Press
2022
Solo Performance as Pride — obituary for queer icon Boris Moiseev [rus]
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022 (and Beyond) — report, Flash Art
Cartography of Masculinities — essay on gender politics of the 2010s in Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous Anthology [rus]
2021
Is Music the Most A-gender Art? — essay on gendering of music at srsly [rus]
Stepping Twice into the River — essay on reconstruction exhibitions, Russian Art Focus
Closed Fish Exhibition at Voznesensky Cultural Center — review, Springerin
Fatally Cancelled by Ebay — speculative and fictional essay on the parcelisation of sovereignty by transnational corporations
2020
Libertarian Male Fantasies: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future —essay on Russian libertarian movement [rus]
Reinventing Siberia — essay on neocolonial mythology of Natura Siberica brand [rus]
Critique of Logistical Reason — essay on how Russian delivery companies transform space and time [rus]
Sort and Rule — essay on depolitisation by ecological agenda [rus]
Dialectics of Sex and Penis Fencing — essay on queerness of nature [rus]
Due Diligence: on Ideology of Museum Security — essay in Centre for Experimental Museology anthology
The Human Condition – Session V: Teleology of the Human. Biography, Destiny, Hope, Faith at MMoMA — review for Camera Austria
Digital Feudalism of the Bat — dystopia on coronavirus [rus]
2019
The Non-Conformists. The Story of a Russian Collection — entries for the exhibition catalogue, Silvana / MOCO
Agency of Singular Investigations: Flower Power Archive at MMoMA Review at MMoMA, Camera Austria
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 at Garage — review, Artforum
Under Western Eyes — essay on (de)colonisation in art criticism, Paper Visual Art Journal
The Animacy of Matter — essay on Nikita Kadan and Anastasia Potemkina, Laura Bulian Gallery
2018
Review on Edward Steichen’s Delphiniums — essay, the Centre of Experimental Museology
steirischer herbst — report, Flash Art Online
NEMOSKVA — report, Flash Art Online
Unfree Love — essay on sex and love in the age of dating apps, sygma [rus]
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More — review, Flash Art Online
If Our Soup Could Speak… Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties at Garage — review, Springerin, 2/2018
Transmediale 31 at HKW — review, Flash Art Online
Image Diplomacy at MMoMA — review, Flash Art Online
Naturgeschichten at MUMOK — review, Springerin, 1/2018 [eng/ger]
2017
Lonely Warrior Against Authoritarian Regime: Soviet and Russian Art in Mass Media — conversation between Andrey Shental, Alexandra Novozhenova and Boris Klyushnikov, Flash Art No. 318
Repatriation of the Universe — essay on Russian cosmism, IDEA magazine No. 5
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism at HKW — review, Flash Art No. 317
Artist Studios in the Dialectics of Re-skilling and Deskilling — essay in Nepokorennie Group Catalogue, MMoMA
Sexual Revolution As a Symptom Of Capitalism? — essay in Kharkiv Gender Studies Journal
Communicative Failures and Defeats — essay in the catalogue How to Gather: Acting Relations, Mapping Positions pub. by M HKA and V-A-C
Moscow Diaries at MMoMA — review, Flash Art No. 316
Betrayed Revolution; or the Nineties Did Not Exist, essay, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]
Geometry of Now at GES-2 — review, Flash Art Online
2016
The Penetrated Body — essay in Deep Inside catalogue of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, ed. by Nadim Samman
The Unaccountable Youth — report on Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at Flash Art Online
Fungofetish and Fungocene: a Call to Sporulate — manifesto, Moscow Art Magazine No. 99 [rus]
When the Artist Speaks — essay on lecture performance, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]
Import/Export: Theses on Cultural Self-Sustainment — essay/manifesto, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]
Digital Present Against Other Temporalities — essay on Berlin Biennale, Raznoglasiya Magazine [rus]
Evgeny Granilshchikov at Multimedia Art Museum — review, Flash Art No. 308
Human Commonalities at Vadim Sidur Museum — review, Flash Art No. 311
Narrative Devices — essay on DIS/Babak Redboy videos, Aperto No. 2
2015
Turtle-Shell: Towards The Critical Object-Oriented Theory — essay in Hybridize or Disappear, Mousse Publishing, ed. by João Laia
The Lawfulness and Lawlessness of Voice — essay on Rana Hamadeh, Moscow Biennale Blog
Us and Them, Here and There, Now and Then — essay on Stina Östberg
Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum — review, Flash Art
(Inter)national Shchusev Green — essay on Russian Pavilion, Colta
So Different, So Appealing — essay on Robert Hamilton, Iskusstvo Journal No. 3
Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: A Promise of Queer/Feminist Revolution — essay, Little Joe No. 5
What Did the Artist Mean By That? — catalogue entries, ed. by Ekaterina Degot, MMoMA
Art Speech: What Is Lecture Performance? — short interviews with Robert Morris, Guillaume Dessange, Hito Steyerl etc., Theory&Practice [rus]
The Voice that Keeps Silence — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 94 [rus]
Natural-Digital Chiasmus — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 96 [rus]
2014
Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts — essay, ArtLeaks Gazette No. 2
Enjoy to the Extreme: Sex in Contemporary Art — text, Theory & Practice [rus]
2013
Discursive Interventions into Russian Art — essay on pedagogical turn, Frieze blog
Reference for Medinsky: What Is Contemporary Art — response to the Russian Minister of Culture, Lookatme
Through the Laser Field — essay on Hito Steyerl’s film Guards, Svilova gallery
Former West: Ruptures in Infrastructure — review, IDEA
Sword Dance Around Duchamp — review of an exhibition in Hayward Gallery, Artterritory
2013 — Year In Russia and Abroad: Art Against the State — commentary for LookAtMe [rus]
Art Speech — essay, Moscow Art Magazine No. 92 [rus]
Meta-artists as Quasi-curators — essay co-authored with Anna Ilchenko, Opcje journal
2012
Series of reviews for Artchronika Magazine:
Feel Like at Home but Do not Forget That You are a Guest — review of Liverpool biennale
Omnipresent Dots of Kusama — review
Alighiero and Boetti — review
Anti-art for the Sake of Anti-art — review of Turner Prize
A Shop of Amazing Objects — review of Frieze art fair
Absence in Presence — review of Serpentine Pavilion
Artist as Institution — review of IRWIN
David Shrigley. Brain Processes — review
An Influential Agent — review of Pablo Picasso
Joyful Archipelago — interviews
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Horror and Light of Lucien Freud — review
2011 – 2012
Series of essays, reviews and interviews for aroundart.ru blog