Yulia Aksenova

In 2002 Yulia graduated from the Faculty of Art History of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). From 2000 to 2004 she worked at the Contemporary Art Department of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). In 2007 she was admitted to the De Appel International Curatorial Programme (Amsterdam). She was the curator of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) from 2010 to 2014. Over the past few years Yulia has been the curator and joint curator of such exhibitions as Socialist Art: Political Art in Russia, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (2007); Masters Humphrey’s Clock, De Appel, Amsterdam (2008); New/Old Cold War, Red October, Moscow (2009); Russian Utopias, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2010); Phantom Monuments, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2011); Necessary Art, Gorky Park, Moscow (2011); 33 Fragments of Russian Performance, Performa, New York (2011); Natalie Djurberg and Jan Švankmajer, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2013); Personal Choice, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); Performance in Russia: A Cartography of its History, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); Yayoi Kusama– Infinity Theory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015).