"Place of Art" team
Natalia Smolianskaia
Artist, curator and philosopher of art specializing in the problems of institutional critique, the role of avant-garde in the era of “surpassing art”, and the issues of actualizing art in modern condition.
Together with a group of curators, she runs research projects Vojti I razreshit (To Enter and Permit) and Mesto iskusstva (The Place of Art). From 2007 to 2013 she was the head of the research program dedicated to avant-garde theories and practices and the languages of art at the International College of Philosophy in Paris