2026
Cosmic Calls, a solo exhibition of Jitish Kallat, Pushkin House, London.
The Distribution of Luck, a lecture performance programme co-curated with Mirela Baciak, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg.
The Stakes of Performing Knowledge, a course co-taught with Mirela Baciak at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg.
Future of Art Philanthropy, a symposium at the annual summit of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, Milan, 2026.
Performing Knowledge, a panel in a conference Global Informality in the Arts, UCL and Pushkin House, London.
Discourse, public programming of talks and lecture performances (since 2023), Pushkin House, London.
2025
Spinning Tales, a solo exhibition of Aziza Kadyri, Pushkin House, London.
N Haus, a solo exhibition of Arsen Zhilyaev, Pushkin House, London.
Interventions in Space and Memory: Traeger, Wielebinski and Zhilyaev in Curatorial Dialogue, panel talk, Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
Joseph Backstein: Curating Contemporary Art, in and from Russia, panel talk, Pushkin House, London.
Forum, public programme of talks, book launches and roundtables (since 2024), Pushkin House, London.
2024
The Battle over Mazepa, a solo exhibition of Mykola Ridnyi, Pushkin House, London.
Blanked Out, an intervention of Daria Irincheeva, Pushkin House, London.
Archiving Lecture Performance: Re-Thinking Museum as an Institution? a paper presentation at Museum Why? Practice, Agency and Knowledge in the Art Museum (supported by the travel grant from the University of Copenhagen), University of Copenhagen.
2023
Precarious Elements Terraforming: Hollow Earth, Stifled Fire, Thin Air, Thick Water, a solo exhibition of Liva Dudareva, Pet Projects, Athens.
Hydropolitical: Water Sovereignty, the Imaginary and Gaiapolitics, artistic workshops for Mysteries of Transition/European Capital of Culture, Eleusus.
2022
Between Objects, a group exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum.
To Half Sell a Duck, a solo exhibition of David Bernstein, Keiv and The Breeder, Athens.
Otherness, Desire, the Vernacular, a duo exhibition of Carlos Motta and Jaanus Samma, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn.
Disorienting Time: Shahzia Sikander’s Artistic Research, a paper presentation and a panel conversation with Gayatri Gopinath at Shahzia Sikander at Jesus College: Archives, Contemporary Practices, and Decolonisation at the University of Cambridge.
Overwhelming Majority? Art, Society and War in Contemporary Russia, a group exhibition, Shtager Gallery, London.
Historical Futures and the Future of History, a talk with Tanya Accone at the Association of Professional Futurists’ Global Virtual Conference.
Painting the City: Aesthetics and Politics of a Public Wall, a panel talk with Inga Meldere and Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, the Finnish Institute, Athens.
2021
The Pythian School of Futures, lecture series/podcast, AVTO Istanbul.
Sigrid Viir And Cloe Jancis: Visual Dialogue In Isolation, panel talk, Art Basel OVR.
Art in Space, reading group session in The Future in the Aerocene: Air as an Interface for Life, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
The Narrative Layers of Delphic Omphalos, a talk at The Layered Image. Its Phenomena and Constructions in Ancient Art at the Institute for the Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean of the University of Hamburg.
Presentation for a Lost Conference, a multimedia presentation with Michael Haldrup and Lihn Le at the 12th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Vienna.
Artistic Research Methods to Re-Think Myths, a talk at the University of Arts Bremen.
Supranormal, Unorthodox: Alternative Ideographs of Power in Hesiod and Their Aesthetic Agency, a talk at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
2020
Cyber-PiraMMMida, an online group exhibition in conjunction with the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale How Will We Live Together?
Birzhastation, an installation co-curated with David Brodsky, Ana Chorgolashvili, Michal Murawski, Maria Mileeva and David Roberts, the 2nd Tbilisi Architecture Biennial What Do We Have in Common.
Hesiod’s Theogony: The Epic Poem as a Political Tractate, a talk at the Classics postgraduate seminar at the School of History, Classics & Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh.
The Epic Poem as a Political Tractate, a talk at the Aesthetics Conference at the University of St Andrews.
(Re)Introduction: Facets, a seminar at the University of Edinburgh.
Ancient Delphi as the Oikumene’s Centre of Futures Studies, a talk at the 14th London Ancient Science Conference, London.
Challenging Power in Hesiod’s Theogony and Material History of Ancient Greece, a talk at the UCL Lyceum Seminar, London.
Theory and Practice of Political Risk: the Case of Contemporary Russia, a talk at the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, London.
DrillyforMayor, a public debate, the UCL Institute of Archaeology, London.
Coronavirus and the Rapidly Changing Political Landscape in Europe: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Universalising Biopolitics in Flux, a public talk at the Conjectural Futures, Berlin.
2019
The Palace of Ritual, a group exhibition co-curated with Michal Murawski, Annie Jael Kwan and Kasia Sobucka in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale Arte “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Palazzo Dona, Venice.
Future(s) of Democracy? a group exhibition co-curated with Anab Jain, Niko Heep and Stefan Zinell, Vienna Design Week.
Transforming the Museum, a programme of interventions, tours and performances co-curated with Michael Haldrup at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen.
A Fish Rots from the Head Down, an exhibition of Avenir Institute during the 2nd WAS Biennale We Respect Your Privacy? London.
Somewhere: Cosmic Imaginaries towards New Interplanetary Politics, a dialogue with Tomas Saraceno moderated by Elvia Wilk, Art Basel Miami Beach.
Encyclopaedia of Unrealised Futures - Escaping the Everlasting Present, a workshop, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
Introduction to Aeropolitics, series of lectures and workshops, Aerocene Foundation Symposium & Festival, Olympiaberg, Munich.
On Art Institutions and The Future and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Art and Society, Surviving Art podcast, Ljubljana.
2018
Diplomatic Mission of the State of Noland in Russia, a solo exhibition by Avenir Institute, Fabrica CCI, Moscow.
State of Noland: on Potent Futures Post- Sovereignty, Nationalism & Imperialism, a talk in the public programme of Transnationalisms curated by James Bridle, Ljubljana.
Theogony: Critical Reading Group, a lecture performance and creative research workshop, AMOQA.
The Diplomatic Mission of State of Noland in the United Kingdom, with Timo Tuominen in WTFuture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Theogony: Collective Anticipatory Writing, a creative writing workshop and multimedia performance as part of Europe was Taken by a Bull, Athens.
Mythography for Alternative Futures, a lecture performance and creative writing workshop as part of exhibition programming at Mimosa House, London.
Metamorphosis into Post-Human Statehood: from X-land to No-Land, a public talk at PRIMER San Francisco.
Methods of Transdisciplinary Research and Design: Comparative Anticipatory Mythography, a public talk at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin.
Dramaturgia: on Russian Machiavellianism as an Exportable Political Strategy, a lecture for the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London.
Fashion: from a Medium of Visual Political Culture to a Creative Industry and Back Again, a public talk for Flanders DC/City of Antwerp.
Xenia as a Protocol for Shared Futures, a public talk at the U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
Theogony: towards Mythology for Alternative Futures, a public talk at Romantso, Athens.
Future Memories: Media Culture and Arts Education, a lecture for the Institute of Art and Art Theory at the University of Cologne.
Alternative Methods of Revealing Possible in Futures, a lecture at the Roskilde University, Copenhagen.
Transdisciplinarity for Futures Design, a lecture at The New School, New York.
Delphi: The Sanctity of the Think Tank, a talk for the Bremen University of Arts travel program, Delphi.
2017
documenta: Learning from Balashikha, a group exhibition, Kunsthalle Vysotka, Moscow.
Temple of Futures Thinking, a solo exhibition by Avenir Institute, Shtager Gallery, London.
too much as not enough, a group exhibition at Shtager Gallery, London.
Against the Future, a solo exhibition by Avenir Institute, Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo.
I’ve Got the Power! a performative talk show with TOK curatorial collective, HIAP, Helsinki.
Do You Remember the Future? a lecture, Penthouse Art Residency, Brussels.
Mythology for Alternative Futures, a public talk at the Circuits and Currents in the context of Documenta 14, Athens.
(Im)Perfect Futures, a panel talk with Benjamin Bratton and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou at the 4th Ural Industrial Biennal of Contemporary Art New Literacy, Ekaterinburg.
The Bitter Plums of Chelsea Manning: An Opera in Three Acts with Deyson Gilbert, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, and Tom N at the Delfina Foundation, London.
Utopia as an Escape, Inspiration, Critique, and Danger, a panel talk with Maya van Leemput at the Cosmoscow, Moscow.
Fauna for Futures, a workshop co-led with Maya van Leemput, Enough Room for Space, Brussels.
The State of Noland, a lecture at the Centre Culturel Bruegel, Brussels.
Futures: Plural & Rhizomatic, a workshop for PeclersParis, Paris.
'Brazil and Russia: New Aesthetico-Political Realities, a public talk with Marina Tenório at Tapera Taperá, São Paulo.
On the Political & Curatorial in the Context of Contemporary Culture, a public talk at Atelier Fidalga, São Paulo.
This Storm is What We Call Progress, a performative address in the context of the opening of Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai's total installation “Storming” at the Shtager Gallery, London.
Potentiality in the Grey Zones, a lecture at the Penthouse Art Residency, Brussels.
2016
Bureau for Public Insecurities, a group exhibition in the context of the 32nd São Paulo Biennale co-curated with Caroline Carrion, Vila Madalena & Pinheiros.
Aesthetics of Power, a group exhibition, ikonoTV, Berlin.
Do You Speak Synergy? a group exhibition co-curated with Harlan Levey, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels.
Moirai Realität, a solo exhibition by Avenir Institute, Kleistpark, Berlin.
Be a Guest in My Possible Future, a group exhibition, the 1st WAS Biennale, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow.
Post-VR: Society and Politics, a public talk at Futurice, London.
Subjective Scenarios: Youth, Public Space and Mindsets, a public talk at the Taiga Creative Platform, St. Petersburg.
Facing the Future: EU-Russia, a round table at BOZAR, Brussels.
Present Visuality and Thingness of Trans-Ethnography in the Context of Unrealised Future of the Past, a public talk at the State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow.
The Artist as a Curator & the Curator as an Artist, a public talk at De Brakke Grond Arts Centre, Amsterdam.
How to Understand Contemporary Art Critically? a public talk at BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels.
Bird, Stone, Water: from Dialectical Simulacra to Reification of Subjectivity, a lecture performance with Adrijana Gvozdenovic, FAAP, São Paulo.
The Epistemology of Border: Futures of bio-geo-techno-Politics, a lecture performance at the Nationless Pavilion at the 15th Architecture Biennale Reporting From The Front, Venice.
Debates on Division, a performance with Gluklya curated by TOK at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
The World as It’s Seen By in the Sightseeing, a lecture performance at de Brakke Grond Arts Centre, Amsterdam.
2015
State(?)-after-State: Future Potentiality of Post-Nation, a workshop at The Nationless Pavilion during the 56th Venice Biennale Arte All the World’s Futures, Sale Docks.
Avenir Manifesto, lecture performance at the Creative Time Summit, the 56th Venice Biennale Arte All the World’s Futures.
Connection Lost. Isolation as a Choice in the Montenegrin Contemporary Art, a panel talk with Natalija Vujošević, Adrijana Gvozdenović, and Lenka Djorojevic at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale Arte All the World’s Futures.
Starbucks Franchises Personally Managed by Joseph Stalin and the Other Avenirs of the Internet, a workshop at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg.
The World as it’s Seen by (Russia) and (the EU)” & “Recontextualisation is Upcycling in My Practice, My Politics, lecture performances at the Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht.
The World as it’s Seen by (Russia), lecture performance in a group exhibition The Game of Roles at Paris Texas Antwerp, Antwerp.
Aesthetics is/and/as Politics in Love Will Tear Us Apart, lecture performance and intervention, The HAL, Antwerp.
The Anatomy of Modern Leviathan, lecture performance at Stadslimiet, Antwerp.
2014
International Research Cooperation: Russia in Spotlight, the EARMA keynote lecture at the Tallinn University.
Art, Society, and Politics: Russian Soft Power, a lectire at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.