I am a Kazakhstan-born German art historian, curator, and lecturer whose practice operates at the intersection of socially engaged art, digital network culture, and postcolonial discourse. My academic background in art history at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and my postgraduate studies in curating at the Zurich University of the Arts shaped my critical engagement with exhibition-making in relation to post-Soviet contexts. My dissertation, Elsewhere East: Socially Engaged Art and Digital Network Culture, traces in reverse chronology from contemporary socially engaged digital practices back to early experiments in art and technology, focusing on developments of Central and Eastern Europe.

My curatorial practice additionally highlights feminist and queer perspectives in the post-Soviet sphere. I am particularly interested in questioning resilient narratives of universalism and exploring non-dualistic, fluid, and shifting concepts of subjectivity. Through curatorial formats, collaborative structures, and research-based exhibition practices, I seek to create spaces of inclusion.

From 2021 to 2025, I worked as a research associate at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen within the EU-funded FEINART research and training network, focusing on socially engaged art, with research stays at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík and Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm. Between 2016 and 2021, I worked as curator at YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I was responsible for the international residency program and ARTIM Project Space supporting emerging artistic practices. During my time at AB Gallery in Lucerne and Zurich (2011–2013), I actively built a professional network across the MENA region, while my tenure at Bernheimer Fine Art Photography (2014–2016) allowed me to deepen my expertise in classic photography. From 2009 to 2011, I worked at the German Art Archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, focusing on archival research and database work.